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Irish Teacher Who Opposes School’s Transgender Policy Jailed for Third Time

Updated: September 5, 2024 at 11:15 am EST  See Comments

An Irish teacher at the center of a dispute over transgenderism and pronouns has been jailed for the third time after he violated a court order to keep him away from the school where he used to teach.

Enoch Burke, a history and German teacher, was suspended from Wilson’s Hospital School in August 2022, when he refused, as CBN News previously reported, to call a student who was transitioning from male to identifying as female by “they” rather than “he” pronouns.

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Calling individuals by pronouns that do not correlate with their biological sex violates Burke’s convictions. In 2022, he told Irish High Court Judge Michael Quinn, who presided over his case, “Transgenderism is against my Christian belief. It is contrary to the Scriptures, contrary to the ethos of the Church of Ireland, and of my school.”

In the days after he was placed on paid administrative leave, Burke reportedly returned to the school grounds in Westmeath, from which he had been prohibited. As a result, he was arrested and placed behind bars at Mountjoy Prison, a men’s jail in Dublin.

Burke was released from his first stint in jail in December 2022. He was

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