U.S. Supreme Court spurns Catholic hospital appeal over transgender patient
By Andrew Chung
WASHINGTON, Nov 1 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a bid by a Catholic hospital in California to avoid a lawsuit over its refusal to let its facilities be used to perform a hysterectomy on a transgender patient who sought the procedure as a part of gender transition from female to male.
The justices turned away an appeal by Mercy San Juan Medical Center, a Sacramento-area hospital owned by Dignity Health, and let stand a lower court ruling that revived Evan Minton's lawsuit accusing it of intentionally discriminating against him because he is transgender in violation of California law. (Reporting by Andrew Chung in New York; Editing by Will Dunham)
