"Religious freedom? What religious freedom?"

John Ellis writes in PJ Media,

the ACLU has sued St. Joseph hospital in Eureka, Calif., for refusing to perform surgery on a woman who thinks she is a man.

...Oliver Knight (I don't know her real name) explains in an article published on the ACLU's website that the hysterectomy she was scheduled to have was the next surgery in the process of sex reassignment. She confesses that:

"Since I was a kid, I’ve felt like my body didn’t match my soul. I felt uncomfortable in clothes. I felt disgusting when I showered. Everything felt wrong, but it took me a while to figure out why. Once I discovered that I am a man, I went to my doctor to start the process of medically transitioning. I began taking testosterone. I had a double mastectomy. The next step was a hysterectomy."

Thankfully, the hospital realized that the surgery violated their religious beliefs and prevented Ms. Knight from any further self-harm through the process of mutilating her body. The ACLU, of course, sees it differently and believes that a person's right to inflict further trauma and pain on their body trumps people's right to live and act in accordance with their religious beliefs.

...This is a much larger and more fundamental issue than simply whether or not people should be allowed to mutilate their body. Even Americans who disagree with me on the ethics of transgenderism should be up in arms if St. Joseph hospital is forced to violate their religious beliefs. The legal foundation of our nation that ensures rights for all is at stake.

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