Enoch Burke was originally suspended from his role as a secondary school teacher at Wilson’s Hospital School in Ireland for refusing to recognise a student as having changed their gender rather than their biological sex, and not submitting to an instruction to refer to that student by the pronouns “they/them” and using their new name.
The circumstances that followed this – High Court injunctions, incarceration, public protests, dismissal from his job and, most recently, being dragged by his arms from the High Court as well as having charges of trespassing at his place of employment being considered by the Director of Public Prosecutions – have overtaken the initial issue at play.
