...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...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.
That’s dumb. You absolutely don’t want to have a surgery done where they aren’t accustomed to doing them, unless it is a serious emergency, because the odds of dangerous errors are so much higher.
He received the surgery three days later at a non-religious hospital but filed a lawsuit in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, claiming he was discriminated against.The lower courts ruled in his favor and against the hospital, which asked the justices to review the case.
Specifically, Dignity Health argued that religious health care institutions should be protected by the First Amendment and not forced to perform surgeries that conflict with its ethics.
The majority of the justices declined to get involved.
Justices Neil M. Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. would have taken up the case for review.