Transgender teacher fired by Catholic school board
The Sun
By KERRY DIOTTE, SUN MEDIA
03 October 2009


http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/edmonton/2009/10/03/11267916-sun.html


An Edmonton teacher fired after telling a Catholic school board she was changing her gender to a man says the case fuels an unfair stereotype nationwide that Albertans are rednecks.

"I do believe it may feed into the myth that Albertans are redneck," said Jan Buterman who this week launched an Alberta Human Rights Commission complaint about the firing from a public Catholic school board in St. Albert that came on her birthday last October. "I really don't think it's really what Alberta is," said Buterman.

She's undergoing the process of becoming a man and had been a substitute teacher at the board for six months.

She said she was removed from the substitute teaching list of the Greater St. Albert Catholic Schools board after receiving a letter from a deputy superintendent who wrote, "Since you made a personal choice to change your gender, which is contrary to Catholic teachings, we have had to remove you from the substitute teacher list."

And she thought she was safe from this how?

The church frowns on it, what did she expect to happen.

Transgender teacher fired by Catholic school board
Edmonton SUN
KERRY.DIOTTE@SUNMEDIA.CA

An Edmonton teacher fired after telling a Catholic school board she was changing her gender to a man says the case fuels an unfair stereotype nationwide that Albertans are rednecks.

"I do believe it may feed into the myth that Albertans are redneck," said Jan Buterman who this week launched an Alberta Human Rights Commission complaint about the firing from a public Catholic school board in St. Albert that came on her birthday last October. "I really don't think it's really what Alberta is," said Buterman.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/edmsun/091003/canada/transgender_teacher_fired_by_catholic_school_board

Teacher loses job for changing gender
By Jodie Sinnema, edmontonjournal.comOctober 1, 2009

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Transgendered+Edmonton+teacher+files+human+rights+complaint/2059774/story.html

EDMONTON — An Edmonton teacher has filed a human rights complaint against the Greater St. Albert Catholic school district after it stopped hiring him as a substitute because he was changing his gender.

"In discussions with the Archbishop of the Edmonton Diocese, the teaching of the Catholic Church is that persons cannot change their gender," Steve Bayus, the district's deputy superintendent, wrote in an Oct. 14, 2008, letter to teacher Jan Buterman. "One's gender is considered what God created us to be."