A female doctor has hit the headlines after suing the hospital she had worked at for 17 years.
Valerie Kloosterman is a physician assistant who worked at Michigan Health for nearly two decades before getting sacked after refusing to approve of transgender pronouns because of her religious beliefs.
As the Christian doctor insisted, she was called “evil” and a “liar” and even accused of being the reason behind “gender dysphoria-related suicides” after she fought to be exempted from referring trans patients for gender transition or referring to them as “they.”
Kloosterman’s request was turned down by the Michigan hospital which terminated her on the grounds of discrimination.
The dispute between the hospital’s diversity department and the doctor began after the institution introduced a mandatory diversity program for all employees.
“Two of the questions that year were very specific in confirming that gender was fluid, and I had to select the box,” Kloosterman recalled in an interview with Fox News.
“It was not an option for me to state my concerns, and I could not complete this mandatory test without answering that question the way they wanted me to based on the university’s belief, and so I raised my concerns.”
Following a heated discussion, the doctor was allegedly called names and accused of hatred before getting fired.
She has now taken her fight a step further by suing the hospital for “unlawful religious discrimination” as she insisted she could not “in good conscience to God” answer the questions the way the hospital wanted her to.
“I said I am a Christian, which means I’m a Christian physician assistant, and I cannot answer these questions in good conscience to God and understanding the harm it can do to my patients; this is not fair,” Kloosterman recalled.
“The meeting became hostile. I was called evil. I was called a liar. And I very compassionately gave my point of what my concern was from a medical standpoint from my medical judgment, as well as in good conscience to God, and I should never have been asked to compromise my faith to be able to do my job.”
In the suit, the doctor’s lawyers argue that her employer “attempted to compel Ms Kloosterman to pledge, against her sincerely held religious convictions and her medical conscience, that she would speak biology-obscuring pronouns and make referrals for ‘gender transition’ drugs and procedures.”
The First Liberty Institute attorneys representing the doctor added: “If not for Ms. Kloosterman’s religious beliefs about gender and sexuality, she would not have been fired.”
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