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Christian doctor fired in the UK for suggesting gender is biological.
www.breitbart.com ^ | 7/10/18 | Thomas Williams

Posted on 07/10/2018 10:22:29 AM PDT by Midwesterner53

A medical doctor with 26 years of experience working at the National Health Service (NHS) has been deemed “unfit to work” after insisting on identifying patients by their biological sex.

Dr. David Mackereth, 55, began training in May to become a health and disability assessor for the government but ran into trouble when his Christian and scientific convictions ran afoul of department protocols.

In his new job, Dr. Mackereth was to compile independent reports about the health of persons who were claiming disability benefits. His instructor told him that regardless of a patient or client’s biological sex, he must only refer to them by their self-identified gender.

“I said that I had a problem with this,” Mackereth said. “I believe that gender is defined by biology and genetics and that as a Christian the Bible teaches us that God made humans male or female.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: fascism; nhs; transgender
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To: Truthoverpower

“Gender” as the left uses it is a synonym for “fetish.”
Never allow leftists (particularly feminists) to discuss “Gender” apart from things like a fascination with red hair or dressing as a giant rabbit or any of the other comparable foibles.


21 posted on 07/10/2018 11:00:42 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: shelterguy

Indeed. I’m not sure why this is really a religious issue. I don’t need the Book of Genesis to tell me that man and woman are innately and physically distinct.


22 posted on 07/10/2018 11:02:12 AM PDT by The Pack Knight
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To: Midwesterner53

His firing only confirms previous comments I made about London emergency room doctors who refuse to admit that they have to deal with a large amount of injuries due to stabbings and other types of violence. Back in May, President Trump commented about the violence in London, and how gun control hasn’t helped stem the tide of stabbings, etc., in the city. Of course the hospitals and the doctors they employ raised a cry against his comments. The hospitals hire and pay the doctors, but the money comes from the government. So if you don’t tow the line, and instead choose to buck the system like this long-time doctor did, you will be sent on your way.


23 posted on 07/10/2018 11:14:09 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: KC_Conspirator
"They deserve to lose their country."

I stated as much on another thread. Whatever ills befall the UK, they've brought it on themselves, and I'll not have any sympathy for them. Sad, because I love British history, but they've really stepped in it for many years now, and deserve what the future holds in store for them.

24 posted on 07/10/2018 11:16:51 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Midwesterner53

That’s because the UK is: (choose your gender) “____________”


25 posted on 07/10/2018 11:22:08 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: mass55th

It will be implosion and Sharia law.


26 posted on 07/10/2018 11:34:49 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: mrsmel
"in light of all the accusations of 'nazi' at the right, I’d like to see the right begin to use the term 'Stalinist' when discussing the left"

Excellent!

27 posted on 07/10/2018 11:38:59 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: Midwesterner53

Next they will demand a hysterectomy for men


28 posted on 07/10/2018 11:41:26 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: Midwesterner53

He made the mistake of bringing the church into it.

He should have said “WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE- F***ING MORONS? WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT SEX THEY ARE BEFORE WE END UP SCHEDULING A HYSTERECTOMY FOR A MAN”


29 posted on 07/10/2018 11:42:57 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: ETL
What someone wears is about gender expression; you cannot tell what their sexual orientation is by what they have on (for that matter, you can’t know what their gender identity is, either … unless they tell you).

Confusing gender and sexual orientation can also interfere with a young person’s ability to understand and articulate aspects of their own gender. For example, it’s not uncommon for a transgender or non-binary youth to wonder if they are gay or lesbian (or any sexual orientation other than heterosexual) before coming to a fuller realization of their gender identity.

It’s important to understand both gender and sexual orientation, but how we come to understand these parts of ourselves – and the choices we make to disclose and express them – are distinct paths. Thinking of these two aspects of self as interchangeable may, instead of helping us know ourselves and one another better, actually get in the way of our ability to understand and communicate with one another.

Great. I think I just changed genders 3 times while reading this. I thought I understood things before, but I looked at what I have on and I am no longer sure. I guess I’m now Questioning. Pretty much everything.

30 posted on 07/10/2018 11:47:22 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Mr. K
Next they will demand a hysterectomy for men

Well, maybe then Loretta can have a baby ...


31 posted on 07/10/2018 11:55:05 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Antifa and Social Justice Warriors (SJWs) = SturmAbteilung)
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To: The Pack Knight

Because the left knows that it would look ridiculous if they tried to argue this on scientific grounds, so they make it a part of their war on Christianity -not religion, Christianity-I never hear of any leftist nonsense directed at, for instance, Buddhists or wiccans. Nor that elephant in the room, Islam, which in doctrine and in modern practice is violent and oppressive, unlike the Christianity the left has made their religious whipping boy.


32 posted on 07/10/2018 12:09:59 PM PDT by mrsmel (I wonÂ’t be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Midwesterner53

Clear science. No doubt about it at all. The UK has chosen the wrong side. It’s only a matter of time now before the UK falls.


33 posted on 07/10/2018 12:22:39 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Liberalism, like insanity, is the denial of reality.)
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To: Midwesterner53
“I said that I had a problem with this,” Mackereth said. “I believe that gender is defined by biology and genetics and that as a Christian the Bible teaches us that God made humans male or female.”

Gender IS defined by biology and genetics.

What is Great Britain attempting to accomplish by denying indisputable scientific fact?

Gender confusion is a treatable mental disorder.

34 posted on 07/10/2018 12:32:34 PM PDT by olezip
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To: Midwesterner53

There are two genders - XX and XY - female and male.

There are a vanishingly small number of birth defects - hermaphrodites, etc., - less than 1 in a million.

Everything else is varying degrees and flavors of mental illness.


35 posted on 07/10/2018 12:48:55 PM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: Midwesterner53

LMAO! Sooooooo much idiocy in the world, can’t make this sh*t up......gender is BIOLOGICAL, yo!


36 posted on 07/10/2018 1:29:48 PM PDT by cranked
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To: Little Ray

There are two genders - XX and XY - female and male.


Those are sexes, which are firmly rooted in biology.

Genders, in English, are Masculine, Feminine, and Neuter, which are strongly linked to biology, but not absolutely.

Gender is very seldom important in medicine, but the data-point of Sex is.


37 posted on 07/10/2018 3:57:39 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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