Recent Supreme Court ruling being used to force hospital into performing transgender surgery
A recent US Supreme Court ruling has opened the door for a lawsuit that seeks to force a Catholic hospital to carry out transgender surgery, PJ Media reports. Brought by American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Maryland lawsuit is relying on the case of Bostock v. Clayton County (2020) to make its case. In Bostock, Justice Neil Gorsuch led the Court’s four liberals to redefine a person’s “sex” as including transgender identity and sexual orientation. At the time of this ruling, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito warned that Gorsuch’s decision would pave the way for the kind of case that has now been filed.
The plaintiff in the Maryland lawsuit is a biological woman who identifies as a man. The plaintiff claims that St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson, MD unlawfully discriminated against her by refusing to perform a hysterectomy to remove her healthy uterus, PJ Media reports. St Joseph’s is a...