• Christian teacher Joshua Sutcliffe was banned from the classroom by the Teaching Regulation Agency for failing to properly use the preferred pronouns of a transgender student.
• The Christian Legal Centre said that the agency’s ruling was believed to be the first time a teacher was banned by the department for misgendering a student, according to the press release.
• “I have been bullied and pursued and have had every part of my life scrutinized for expressing my Christian faith and biological truth,” Sutcliffe said in a press release.

A Christian math teacher was banned from the classroom in the United Kingdom for “unprofessional conduct” after misgendering a transgender student, according to a Tuesday press release from Christian Legal Centre (CLC).

CLC is representing Joshua Sutcliffe, a former teacher at The Cherwell School in Oxford, after he came under investigation by the Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) over allegations that he misgendered a biologically female student, referred to as Pupil A, who identifies as a male, according to The Telegraph. The TRA ruled this week that Sutcliffe had engaged in “unprofessional conduct” and accused him of “bringing the profession into disrepute,” according to the press release.

“Following an investigation, the TRA commenced a prosecution and after a 7-day hearing recommended a prohibition order removing Joshua from the classroom,” the press release read. “The order can be reviewed at the earliest after two years. Despite Joshua’s pleas for leniency and hearing good character evidence from two parents of children he had tutored, the Department of the Secretary of State for Education dismissed Mr Sutcliffe’s positive contribution to teaching concluding ‘that a prohibition order is proportionate and in the public interest’ in order to maintain ‘confidence in the profession.'”

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