DOJ backs nuns caring for dying cancer patients in fight against New York trans ideology mandate

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2026 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Legal Statement. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by LSEG. Massapequa school board president Kerry Wachter and Southeastern Legal Foundation president Kim Hermann weigh in on a lawsuit filed against New York Attorney General Letitia James for 'censoring' parents' criticisms of her guidance on transgender students. The Justice Department is backing a group of Catholic nuns who say New York's transgender policies could force them to choose between their religious beliefs and continuing to care for indigent cancer patients in their final days. "States should take notice that they cannot require Americans to abandon their religious beliefs in the name of woke gender ideology," Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said in a Thursday statement. "For more than a century, the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne have provided free palliative care to indigent cance