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Flat White

Reason or belief – fact or fiction?

19 February 2022

1:00 PM

19 February 2022

1:00 PM

A British doctor who was dismissed from his government employment for not referring to a transgender, six-foot-tall, bearded man as ‘madam’ has taken his unfair dismissal to that nation’s High Court. While the grounds of his appeal – that the department’s requirement ‘coerced and threatened’ his Christian beliefs – is interesting enough, there is a more important question that immediately comes to mind.

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