Supreme Court won’t hear Catholic hospital
challenge to transgender surgery
Posted By: Ribicon, 11/1/2021 10:32:26 AM
The Supreme Court announced Monday it would not hear a challenge over a Catholic hospital declining to provide transgender surgery, leaving in place the lower court’s ruling in favor of the transgender man. A transgender man, Evan Minton, sued Dignity Health after the hospital declined to perform his hysterectomy. He received the surgery three days later at a non-religious hospital but filed a lawsuit in California claiming he was discriminated against. The lower courts ruled in his favor and against the hospital, which asked the justices to review the case.(Snip)The majority of the justices declined to get involved. Justices Neil M. Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito
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Remember the notion that we finally had something resembling a right-wing Supreme Court? Out with the Notorious RBG and in with the Notorious ACB, without missing a beat.