Irish schoolteacher Enoch Burke had the funds in his personal bank account seized by court officials over his refusal to comply with orders related to his opposition to transgenderism.

Burke worked at Wilson’s Hospital School but was suspended almost three years ago for refusing to call a self-described transgender student with the “they” preferred pronoun in alignment with his convictions as a Christian.

The teacher has been jailed several times for contempt of court after arriving at school premises in violation of court orders, costing him a daily €700 fine that was recently increased to €1,400.

Judge David Nolan ordered that he will be made to pay the fine as an alternative to a return to prison, prompting court officials to pull €40,000 from his personal bank account. The judicial officials may now seize some of his assets since he currently owes €79,100 in total penalties.

“Burke upheld the Christian ethos of his school, and was jailed as a result. He now faces the robbery of his livelihood,” his social media page said about the new development. “If the church had not betrayed him by their treacherous silence, this saga would never have happened.”

The social media account added that Brian Kennedy, the senior counsel for the Attorney General of Ireland, was allowed “as much time as he wished to make his submissions in court on this unprecedented matter and was not questioned in any way by the bench,” even as Burke was only allowed five minutes to present his case and was disrupted repeatedly in the process.

“Burke sought to draw attention to the fact that the root cause of this case, the principal’s direction to all staff to address a male student by a new name and the ‘they’ pronoun, has never been assessed for its constitutionality or lawfulness by any court,” the account continued.