Consistent coupling to Dirac fields in teleparallelism: Comment on “Metric-affine approach to teleparallel gravity”

Contrary to the claim in a recent publication [Phys. Rev. D 67, 044016 (2003)], I explicitly demonstrate the consistency of the coupling of Dirac fields to the teleparallelism equivalent of general relativity. Moreover, it is pointed out that, in a metric-affine framework, a SL(4,R)-covariant generalization of the Dirac equation needs to be considered.