In a significant victory for religious liberty advocates, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has ruled in favor of Valerie Kloosterman , a physician assistant fired by University of Michigan Health-West in 2021 after she declined to support gender-transition procedures and pronoun usage that conflicted with her Christian beliefs.

The court's decision clears the way for Kloosterman's lawsuit to move forward in federal court rather than being forced into arbitration. Her legal team had argued that the move was a last-minute attempt by the hospital to avoid public accountability.

"Today's decision is a reckoning for institutions that discriminate and punish caring people of faith like Valerie Kloosterman," said Kayla Toney, counsel at First Liberty Institute, one of the firms

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