{"id":9081,"date":"2019-03-25T15:33:58","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T22:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9081"},"modified":"2019-04-15T15:37:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T22:37:39","slug":"catholic-hospital-group-sued-for-refusing-transgender-hysterectomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9081","title":{"rendered":"Catholic hospital group sued for refusing transgender hysterectomy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"author\">Cathoic News Agency<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> San Francisco, Calif., Mar 25, 2019 \/ 02:00 pm (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\">CNA<\/a>).-  A group of five Catholic hospitals in California is being sued by a  woman who identifies as a transgender man after one of its locations,  St. Joseph Hospital, Eureka, refused to perform a hysterectomy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oliver Knight is suing St. Joseph Health  of Northern California, alleging that she was refused the surgery  because of her \u201cgender orientation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The suit was filed in the Humboldt  County Superior Court on Thursday, March 21. In the lawsuit, Knight says  that workers at the hospital canceled the surgery because she  identifies as transgender. . . [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/catholic-hospital-group-sued-for-refusing-transgender-hysterectomy-85873\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathoic News Agency San Francisco, Calif., Mar 25, 2019 \/ 02:00 pm (CNA).- A group of five Catholic hospitals in California is being sued by a woman who identifies as a transgender man after one of its locations, St. Joseph Hospital, Eureka, refused to perform a hysterectomy. Oliver Knight is suing St. Joseph Health of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9081\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Catholic hospital group sued for refusing transgender hysterectomy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,643,217,9,295,28],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-9081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-reconfiguration","category-christianity-catholicism","category-lawsuits","category-news","category-religious-freedom","category-usa"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Catholic hospital group sued for refusing transgender hysterectomy - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9081\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Catholic hospital group sued for refusing transgender hysterectomy - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cathoic News Agency San Francisco, Calif., Mar 25, 2019 \/ 02:00 pm (CNA).- A group of five Catholic hospitals in California is being sued by a woman who identifies as a transgender man after one of its locations, St. Joseph Hospital, Eureka, refused to perform a hysterectomy. 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