AMERICANALMANAC (Jonah Adams) - Michigan hospital pays $410,000 to Christian physician assistant fired over transgender policy objections
A Christian physician assistant who spent 17 years at a Michigan hospital walked away with a $410,000 settlement after she claimed the institution fired her for seeking religious exemptions from its transgender patient policies, and the hospital agreed to rewrite those policies as part of the deal. Valerie Kloosterman reached the settlement with University of […] The post Michigan hospital pays $410,000 to Christian physician assistant fired over transgender policy objections appeared first on American Almanac .
A Christian physician assistant who spent 17 years at a Michigan hospital walked away with a $410,000 settlement after she claimed the institution fired her for seeking religious exemptions from its transgender patient policies, and the hospital agreed to rewrite those policies as part of the deal. Valerie Kloosterman reached the settlement with University of Michigan Health, West, her former employer, resolving a lawsuit she filed in October 2022. First Liberty Institute, the legal organization that represented Kloosterman, announced the agreement on Wednesday. The terms go beyond the payout: the hospital must change its gender transition policy, conduct staff trainings, and adopt new guidelines that allow employees to decline…Open