Kangaroo Court Human right Judge orders Catholic school board to face tribunal over firing of transgender teacher
EDMONTON, Alberta, January 13, 2014 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – An Alberta judge has ruled that a Catholic school board face a hearing at the province’s human rights tribunal over its decision to remove a transgender activist from its list of substitute teachers. The case tests the right of Catholic schools to hire and teach according to their denominational beliefs, which are protected in the Constitution Act 1867 . Janet Buterman now goes by "Jan" and dresses as a man. In 2009, Janet Buterman, 39 at the time, filed a human rights complaint against the Greater St. Albert Catholic School Board after she said the board discriminated against her on the grounds of gender and physical disability — what court documents referred to as gender identity disorder — by removing her from the list. She was not a contracted employee. The board defended its move at the time in a letter to Buterman, stating: “In discussions with the Archbishop of the Edmonton Diocese, the teach