* Please know the page charges in CAD. If you want to donate USD 100 (as an example), multiply USD 100 by the exchange rate (1.35) and type 135 in the donation field. *

Updated on December 7, 2024 under Updates section:

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ and anyone who may support this cause,

On June 1st, 2023, the first day of the “pride month”, I, a student in health sciences in Canada, was suspended from a practicum placement in one of the health clinics in my city and, on June 13th, 2023, I was subsequently expelled. I had only ten weeks left to complete my degree.

The reason for being expelled was that I refused to lie about the gender of a transgender patient on a referral form for medical equipment and could not, in good conscience, sign the form completed by my preceptor, with the false gender. The preceptor consulted a member of the diversity and inclusion team, who advised that the biological sex could be added to the form, while keeping the gender unchanged. I still refused to do so, considering it to be a falsehood. 

The next day, I was called to a meeting with my preceptor, my practicum supervisor from the University, and my preceptor’s supervisor. A professional behavior rubric form completed and signed by my preceptor was presented to me stating:

1. Professional code of ethics violation – bias regarding sexual identity in documentation.

2. Refused to sign a form with client’s preferred pronouns.

3. Unwillingness to prioritize the needs of the client.

I was asked to sign it as an acknowledgement of receipt, and not in any way as my agreement with it. During the meeting, I explained that, because of my beliefs, I could not reconcile my conscience with lying about the gender of a patient. My practicum supervisor from the University told me that I have to “reconcile [my] conscience with the professional code of ethics” and that I have a legal obligation to use the patients’ preferred gender and pronouns. So, their solution to this issue was for me to violate deeply held convictions of my Christian faith if I wanted to graduate and practice in this regulated health profession. As if I could leave my faith at the door like a piece of cloth when I enter to work in the hospital, comply with their antichristian rule, and put my faith back on me when I leave work at the end of the day. This would tear apart the very fabric of my being. I am nothing without my faith in my Lord.

The third day, while I started to work with my preceptor at my placement site, I received an email from the dean of my faculty stating I was suspended from my placement, effective immediately, and would receive a final decision within ten business days. During this period, I consulted with my spiritual father, and I reached out to the dean on two separate occasions explaining the events and proposing a resolution to this issue going forward. I stated that I could write in medical notes that the patient self-identified gender is male or female, so I would not have to lie. I also stated I do not believe I violated the professional code of ethics, as there is nowhere written in the code that a health professional must use the patients’ preferred gender and pronoun. However, there was no response to my plea. Instead, I received a letter of termination and a requirement to withdraw from the program. 

I do not want to work as a health professional and agree to lie about the gender of patients. I believe the sin of lying about gender leads to losing the salvation of my soul and body and I do not want to be pressured towards this eternal damnation by anyone at the University or in the health system.

Within a few days, I hired a lawyer, and appealed the dean’s decision to terminate me from the program. The university initially set a half day for the first level of appeal with the Hearing Committee of my faculty, the members reporting to the Dean that expelled me. However, my faculty – the Respondent - ended up retaining a law firm and had 4 lawyers working for them. The Hearing Committee also works with a very expensive lawyer.  The respondent brought 11 witnesses, when the typical number of witnesses is 3-4. They also brought an “expert witness” who gave evidence about gender identity and the use of gender markers / pronouns and concluded that gender should have not even been on the form I needed to complete during my practicum. The Hearing Committee did not object to the Respondent’s approach and the appeal hearing spanned for 9 days over 5 months, from August 28 until December 5, 2023. One of their intents was very likely to “bleed” me of money, knowing as a student in health sciences, I had a very busy schedule and did not have time to work, while also having to pay the tuition for all my practicum placements. They were “hoping” I will go away. The first level of appeal cost me already approx. $55,000.

By mid January 2024, my lawyer, needs to send the Hearing Committee the written arguments based on the testimony of the witnesses and case law. If the Hearing Committee decides by end of January 2024 to reject my appeal and not allow me back in the program for the remainder of the two practicums (14 weeks to graduate), I will need to initiate a second level of appeal at the university level based on Miscarriage of Justice in the decision made by the Hearing Committee.

I plea for your financial support and prayers. If I cannot pay for legal representation, the system, university and health system win and creates a dangerous legal precedent which will allow them in the future to exclude any Christian student and any Christian health professional, whether doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, pharmacists, etc., that do not want to lie about the gender and pronouns of their patients. Please help me set a positive precedent. Your help is needed to go to this battle which I am fighting on behalf of you too, whether health professional or patient that support God’s truth about gender.

I strive to live by the passage of Saint Paul to the Philippians that the University also happens to embrace as their official motto: “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things” (Philippians 4:8).

 I believe in what is written in the Holy Scriptures and take seriously the beliefs regarding human sexuality and gender. I believe human beings are created in the image of God: “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So, God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them” (Genesis 1:26-27). To bear God’s image is to exist in a special relationship with God, to contribute to God’s revelation on earth and is to possess inherent God-given dignity. As beings intentionally created to bear the image of God, humans are more than their anatomy, but not less. Bodies matter because bodies reflect the intention of the Creator and He calls his followers to honor Him with their bodies (Romans 12:1; I Corinthians 6:20).

I believe human beings ought not seek to undo what God has done: “Know ye that the Lord, He is God: it is He that hath made us, and not we ourselves” (Psalm 100:3). Human completeness comes about through the joining of male and female, not the futile attempt to morph one into the other. When God declared that his creation was good (Genesis 1:31), he was declaring that his creation was intentional and had a purpose behind it. Christianity does not sever gender from sex because the unique ways God made humans are tied to their intended roles and purposes, physically, sexually, and relationally. 

I believe in the truth about the reality that there are only two genders, male and female, as created by God. I believe that, out of love for God’s truth and love for people, I must oppose the idolatrous falsehood that humans can replace God’s design and rule by changing from one gender to another, or change into a human-invented, substitute gender. I believe God’s design for gender is good; man’s perversion of it is evil.

When you donate, if you write your first name, I will keep you in my poor prayers as my benefactors and may the Holy Triune God abundantly bless you. Please keep me in your prayers.

With love in Christ for all of you.

Alexandru