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Irish teacher jailed after being suspended for refusing to use preferred pronouns

By Jack Birle
Published September 6, 2022 11:19pm ET
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Irish teacher jailed after being suspended for refusing to use preferred pronouns
In this Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019 photo Harvard Medical School student Aliya Feroe, of Minneapolis, Minn., displays a button resembling a Harvard School of Medicine coat of arms lion, in rainbow colors that symbolize LGBTQ pride, left, and a button featuring pronouns, center, on the lapel of her lab coat on the school’s campus, in Boston. | (AP Photo/Steven Senne)


A teacher at a school in Multyfarnham, Ireland, has been sent to jail for contempt of court for failing to follow a court order after he refused to use a student’s preferred pronouns.

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