Christian Doctor Speaks Out After Losing Job for Refusing to Call Patients by Preferred Pronouns

A former emergency room doctor from the United Kingdom spoke out after standing up for his beliefs by refusing to use his patients’ preferred pronouns.

In an interview with Fox News Digital, Dr. David Mackereth, 60, recalled losing his job of 26 years in 2019 after he opposed using his patients’ hypothetical preferred pronouns during a training exercise.

“I told them as a Christian in good conscience, I couldn’t do that,” Mackereth explained.

As a result, this led to him being fired by his employer for “harassment,” claiming he violated the U.K. Equality Act2010. The act “legally protects people from discrimination in the workplace and in wider society.”

However, Mackereth said this had nothing to do with discrimination, but honesty.

“If we are introducing a fundamental principle of dishonesty into medical practice… that has a very big impact on the quality of our health care,” he told Fox News Digital.

Following his dismissal, Mackereth filed a lawsuit against his former employer for “religious discrimination.”

“He is a Christian who holds the following beliefs or lack of belief: (a) in the truth of Genesis 1:27, that a person cannot change their sex/gender at will and attempting to do so is pointless, self-destructive and sinful,” the lawsuit reads.