Those who thought up a pro-transgender ideology and installed at one American university hospital are being stung with a penalty of more than $400,000 after a lawsuit was brought by a woman who was fired from her position at the school because her Christian faith conflicted with the school’s adopted agenda.
The announcement about the lawsuit settlement comes from First Liberty Institute and several legal teams that work on behalf of Valeria Kloosterman.
She was a physician assistant at the University of Michigan Health-West before she lost her job in a conflict with the institution’s “gender transition” beliefs.
While transgenderism is a popular social agenda these days, pushed during his four years in the White House by Joe Biden, it doesn’t actually work under the science, as being male or female is embedded in the human body down to the DNA level and does not change.
First Liberty’s announcement said Kloosterman was dismissed because of her religious beliefs about gender, and the lawsuit resolution now requires UMHW to create a religious accommodation policy in accordance with the law, notify and train all its employees, grant reasonable religious accommodations without retaliation, and pay $410,000 in damages and fees to Ms. Kloosterman and her attorneys.
“Title VII prohibits employers from discriminating against and punishing employees for their faith,” said Kayla Toney, First Liberty lawyer. “Valerie is an exceptional physician assistant who cares for each of her patients. Employers cannot drive out people like Valerie just because of their sincere religious beliefs. We are grateful to have resolved this matter with University of Michigan Health-West.”
The legal team confirmed that further, under the new policy, employees will not be required to perform or assist with gender transition treatments, including procedures, medications, and referrals, if doing so would violate the employee’s sincerely-held religious belief.
Nor is the facility allowed to demand that workers use “pronouns in a way that violates their sincerely-held religious belief or conscience.”
Kloosterman, through her lawyers, said, “All I wanted to do was provide the best care possible to my patients without being forced to violate my Christian beliefs.”
She worked at the facility for 17 years and had “an exemplary reputation with patients of all beliefs and backgrounds.”
Then she raised her faith-based concerns about the leftist gender identity training, which the facility said was mandatory.
She then was the target of “hostility” and fired, the lawyers said.
