Catholic hospitals and their workers “must not be coerced by the government to violate their consciences” by being forced to perform “gender transition procedures” against their religious beliefs, said two U.S. cardinals.
HHS urged to ‘reconsider misguided mandate’ on transgender procedures
In ‘major victory’ for religious rights, court blocks transgender mandate
A unanimous ruling by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans blocking the Biden administration’s transgender mandate “is a major victory for conscience rights and compassionate medical care in America,” said the attorney who represented the plaintiffs in the case.
5th Circuit urged to keep injunction in place on HHS transgender mandate
After years of litigation, including an appeal to the 5th Circuit and a remand to the lower court, the District Court granted the doctors and hospitals in the case involved permanent relief from the mandate and protected their medical conscience rights.
HHS proposal replaces medical ethics with transgender ideology, critics say
The U.S. bishops in a July 27 statement saying that “assurances that HHS will honor religious freedom laws offer little comfort when HHS is actively fighting court rulings that declared HHS violated religious freedom laws the last time they tried to impose such a mandate.”
Catholic groups challenge federal mandate on gender transition procedures
Several Catholic hospitals, a Catholic university and Mercy sisters who run health clinics filed a challenge to a federal mandate for performing gender transition procedures with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit Dec. 15.