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Piers Morgan clashed with a doctor who was sacked for refusing to refer to transgender patients by their chosen pronouns on Good Morning Britain today.

Dr David Mackereth, who is Christian, said he felt it was ‘dishonest to use pronouns in that way’ and ‘I couldn’t do that in good conscience’.

He told the show: ‘By changing the way we use pronouns we change who we are a society and the way we are as people.’

Asked why he couldn’t just respect the pronouns someone has chosen to use, he replied: ‘I don’t believe a person can change sex, I don’t believe that a person can change gender or that sex and gender are the same thing.’




Piers straight out called him a bigot, adding: ‘[Transgender people] go through an extremely long and painful transition process, both physically and psychologically. And they do it because fundamentally they believe they were born in the wrong body, the wrong gender, the wrong sex.

‘Shouldn’t you find it in your Christian heart to respect that?’

Dr Mackereth said: ‘The bible tells that God made us male and female. He made us for his own glory. If I’m a bigot then the whole of Christianity throughout history is bigotry. I don’t believe that, I believe Christianity is the truth of God.’

Piers Morgan clashed with Dr David Mackereth on air (Picture: ITV)

Piers then labeled him ‘self-righteous’ and reminded the doctor that the bible states the punishment for adultery is stoning.

‘Do you wonder around the streets of your city looking for people who are looking at people in a lustful way and stone them to death. And if not why not?’ Piers asked.

He added: ‘Jesus Christ told you to be tolerant of people as well and you seem to have failed that test.

‘You are citing the bible to defend your bigotry. We have all moved on from large swathes of the bible.’

The doctor shot back: ‘If I spoke to my patients the way you’re speaking to me they would walk out and I would be before the GMC. Let’s talk about the points.

‘Jesus Christ is the saviour of the world. We should talk in a civil manner, I don’t think you ranting at me is doing any good.’

Piers said: ‘I think we’re done here. Let’s get David some stones.’

Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am on ITV.

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