July 29, 2026
University of Michigan Health-West has agreed to overhaul its religious accommodation policies, train employees and pay $410,000 to resolve a suit brought by a physician assistant who alleged she was fired for refusing, based on her Christian beliefs, to use certain patients' preferred pronouns or participate in gender transition-related care.
September 21, 2023
A hospital can't dodge a former physician assistant's suit claiming she was terminated over religious objections to a policy requiring the use of a patient's preferred pronouns, a federal judge ruled, saying an administrator's hostile comments alleged in the suit were enough to keep the case alive.
January 09, 2023
Five administrators of a University of Michigan-affiliated hospital asked Monday to be dismissed from an ex-physician assistant's claims that she was unconsitutionally compelled to respect transgender and nonbinary patients' preferred pronouns.
October 12, 2022
A Christian ex-physician's assistant hit a Michigan hospital with a federal lawsuit alleging administrators called her "evil" and a "liar" and then fired her after she requested an accommodation so she would not have to refer patients for gender-affirming treatment against her religious beliefs.