Transgender Tag

Doctor David Mackereth worked for the NHS as a medical assessor for 26 years until recently when he was "sacked" and ruled "unfit" to continue working with the Department because "he refused to identify patients as being of a sex that they did not see themselves as." What should be a biological discussion is now one of religious and speech issues. Though it's not unique to Christianity to believe gender is determined biologically and can't be chosen on a whim, Mackereth's stance is portrayed (at least by The Telegraph) as one based on religious principles. Mackereth claims his freedom of speech is being quashed because he's been fired for refusing to renounce his Christian beliefs.

According to a report by Buzzfeed news, the Education Department will not concern itself with complaints lodged by transgender students about campus bathrooms. The Department contends bathroom complaints fall outside of Title IX protections.

A federal judge in Washington D.C. ruled Monday afternoon that, beginning January 1, the U.S. military will be required to allow enlistment of openly transgender recruits. The order issued by Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, a Clinton-appointee on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, is embedded at the bottom of this post. She had already ruled on October 30 that the military could not delay implementing this new policy, which had been finalized under the Obama Administration but not fully put into effect.  The government requested that she stay her ruling pending appellate review. She declined to do so Monday.