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An Edmonton teacher has filed a complaint with the Alberta Human Rights Commission after he was fired by a Catholic school board for telling it he was changing his gender.
Jan Buterman, who worked as a substitute teacher for about six months, was removed from the Greater St. Albert Catholic school board's substitute teacher list last year.
Born as a woman, Buterman is transitioning to become a man and told the school board he had gender identity disorder.
In a letter, Steve Bayus, deputy superintendent of schools for Greater St. Albert, wrote that in discussions with the archbishop of the Edmonton diocese, it was their view that [b]"the teaching of the Catholic Church is that persons cannot change their gender. One's gender is considered what God created us to be."[/b]