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Michigan hospital pays $410K to settle lawsuit by physician assistant fired over transgender policy

The Department of Justice joins Catholic nuns in a lawsuit challenging New York's controversial gender identity law. This law forces a Catholic nursing facility to assign patient rooms based on gender identity, not biological sex, violating the nuns' religious beliefs. A Michigan hospital has agreed to pay $410,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a physician assistant who said she was fired after refusing to comply, due to her faith convictions, with workplace policies related to transgender patients, according to court filings and statements from the parties. Valerie Kloosterman sued University of Michigan Health-West after she was terminated in August 2021. "All I wanted to do was provide the best care possible to my patients without being forced to violate my Christian beliefs," Kloosterman said in a statement shared with Fox News Digital. CHRISTIA

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Michigan hospital pays $410K to settle lawsuit by physician assistant fired over transgender policy

The Department of Justice joins Catholic nuns in a lawsuit challenging New York's controversial gender identity law. This law forces a Catholic nursing facility to assign patient rooms based on gender identity, not…

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