by Lydia Hawken
- Enoch Burke flouted a court order to stay away from school following suspension
It’s the trans rights row that has gripped Ireland for well over a year – putting an otherwise unremarkable history teacher at the heart of the country’s culture wars for his refusal to use a trans pupil’s pronouns.
Enoch Burke – who taught History and German – refused to refer to a transitioning transgender student as ‘they’ rather than ‘he’ in May last year.
It sparked a chain of events that has led to him being jailed for repeatedly showing up at Wilson’s Hospital School in County Westmeath after being sacked, and entering the staff room saying he was there to do his job.
Now he remains in Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison with no prospect of release because he refuses to comply with a court order to stay away from the school premises.
Meanwhile, Burke’s loyal family continue to protest at the school, maintaining he’s being persecuted for his Christian beliefs – while supporters insist the whole ‘country is behind him’.
However, others less sympathetic to the cause view his stubborn refusal and his family’s protests as attention seeking, with one newspaper columnist pointing out that the Burkes ‘like to get their own way’.
The row broke out more than a year ago, when during a meeting with the headteacher and his deputy, Burke said that his Evangelical Christian beliefs meant he ‘opposed transgenderism’.
Following this, Burke publicly criticised the headteacher’s ‘demand’ that staff use students’ chosen pronouns, following a service at the Church of Ireland school to celebrate its 260th anniversary…
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