Irish teacher Enoch Burke has been released from prison on the orders of the High Court in Dublin, ending the latest chapter in a long-running legal dispute that has drawn worldwide attention.
Burke, an Evangelical Christian and former teacher at Wilson's Hospital School in County Westmeath, was forcefully imprisoned for 700 days for refusing to use wrong-gender pronouns, which led to him being ordered not to return to work as an educator.
He was suspended in August 2022 after a dispute arose with the school management over the introduction of a policy requiring that staff misgender students who choose to self-identify as the opposite sex. Burke objected on grounds of conscience.
The dispute escalated when he continued to return to the school grounds despite being suspended and courts injunctions later ordering him to stay away.
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