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            Deborah Pitt (Dr
        
        
            Date posted: 1 Nov 2018
        
     
    
    
    
        Dear Sir,
 
Dr David Mackereth has been discriminated  against  and  denied  a 
 job  with 
 the 
 Department of Work and Pensions because 
 of his Christian belief that God made mankind male and female. Dr Mackereth believed 
 he should not be compelled to use a preferred 
 specific  pronoun  to  address  a  transgender 
 patient. I fully agree. Religious belief is also 
 a protected characteristic under the Equality 
 Act 2010, but evidently some protected characteristics are more protected than others.