A Florida judge ruled in favor of a Christian teacher who lost her job after telling a transgender student that “My God made no mistakes” while refusing to use the child’s “preferred pronouns.”

In a footnote to his Monday ruling, Administrative Law Judge John Van Laningham characterized transgenderism as a “new secular faith,” News Service of Florida reported.

“Advocates of transgenderism can be as doctrinaire as religious zealots these days,” the judge wrote, according to the news outlet. “As this case demonstrates, adhering to the traditional view that gender is biologically determined can get a person excommunicated, from a job in this instance.”

The teacher, Yojary E. Mundaray, was fired in June of 2020 from her job teaching science at Jose de Diego Middle School in the Miami-Dade County School District.