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
In May 2021, I sit on the couch, filling out registration forms for my children’s new school. After writing their names, birthdates and addresses, the school wants to know each child’s gender and pronouns: he/him, she/her, or they/them.
I roll my eyes and smile. This is so woke. So ridiculous.
“Hey, Nathan!” I call to my then 9-year-old son. “What do you want your pronouns to be at school? He/him, she/her, or they/them?” I smile as I hear the expected
Comedienne Roseanne Barr, die in einem neuen TV-Special ein Comeback auf der Comedy-Bühne feierte, wetterte gegen aufgeweckte Agenden und Cancel Culture.
Barr wurde 2018 nach dem Neustart ihrer Hit-Sitcom „Roseanne“ gefeuert – die sich rühmte höchste Bewertungen einer neuen TV-Serie seit Jahren – nachdem sie einen Tweet über die mächtige Beraterin des Weißen Hauses von Obama, Valerie Jarrett, gepostet hatte, in dem es hieß: „Die Muslimbruderschaft und der Planet der Affen hatten ein Baby = vj.“ Barr entschuldigte sich später
A teacher who was jailed after he refused to use a transgender student’s gender neutral pronoun and ignored his teaching suspension has again refused to comply with a court order banning him from his school.
Enoch Burke, an evangelical Christian, told Ireland’s High Court that abiding by the injunction that forbade him to teach at his school after he refused to address a transitioning student as ‘they’ would ‘violate my religious beliefs and deny my God’.
Mr Burke, who has
