The Employment Appeal Tribunal in London delivered a mixed judgment June 29, ruling that the British Equality Act protects Christians’ beliefs that transgenderism should not be affirmed, but they cannot express those beliefs in the workplace.
The case involved Dr. David Mackereth, who was fired in 2018 from his job as a medical assessor for the United Kingdom’s Department for Work and Pensions for refusing to identify clients by their preferred gender instead of their biological sex.
Mackereth, a devout Christian, believes that God created humans as male and female, not transgender.
“As Christians, we are not trying to be unkind to people in any way,” he said. “As Christians we are called to love all people with Christian love. But we cannot love people truly when we live and disseminate a lie. If we are to tell patients that they need to ‘follow the science,’ then we must not tell them that they can change sex.”
