{"id":202,"date":"2026-06-22T14:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanhousingtransition.com\/?p=202"},"modified":"2026-06-22T14:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:38:16","slug":"doj-joins-catholic-nuns-in-lawsuit-against-n-y-transgender-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanhousingtransition.com\/?p=202","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Joins Catholic Nuns in Lawsuit Against N.Y. Transgender Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Justice is signing on to a lawsuit filed by Catholic nuns in New York challenging a state law requiring nursing facilities to affirm a patient\u2019s self-professed \u201cgender identity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanhousingtransition.com\/?p=200\">Parents Demand Warnings on LGBT-Related Children\u2019s Content<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne have cared for poor terminally ill patients at Rosary Hill Home \u2014 free of charge \u2014 for more than 120 years. Following the initial lawsuit filed by the sisters back in April, the DOJ notified the U.S. District Court that it plans to intervene in the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStates should take notice that they cannot require Americans to abandon their religious beliefs in the name of woke gender ideology,\u201d Assistant Attorney General for the DOJ\u2019s Civil Rights Division, Harmeet K. Dhillon, said in a statement. \u201cFor more than a century, the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne have provided free palliative care to indigent cancer patients in their last days. New York\u2019s law would force these religious women to choose between their faith and their license if they wish to continue serving the dying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The law in question is the LGBTQ Long-Term Care Facility Residents\u2019 Bill of Rights, enforced by the state\u2019s Department of Health. It requires long-term care facilities to allow gender-dysphoric patients to use their preferred bathroom, requires caretakers to refer to patients by their preferred pronouns, and grants such patients the right to be housed in spaces otherwise reserved for the opposite sex\u00a0 \u2014 all based on a patient\u2019s espoused gender identity, regardless of a group\u2019s religious convictions.<\/p>\n<p>Facilities must also post signage, ensuring the group does not discriminate against patients for gender identity, sexual orientation, or HIV status, as well as complete a cultural competency training every two years.<\/p>\n<p>When the sisters filed their suit, the Church of Christ Scientist had received an exemption. No Catholic groups or organizations have been given a similar opt-out exemption.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanhousingtransition.com\/?p=198\">Why Ohio Governor Mike DeWine Changed His Mind on the Death Penalty<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The DOJ, in its press release, says the New York law violates the Fourteenth Amendment\u2019s Equal Protection Clause by forcing religious facilities to meet standards that violate the group\u2019s religious beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>Back in April, the nuns applied for an exemption through the state, but had not heard back. At the time, the Dominican Sisters\u2019 counsel said the state\u2019s silence on the exemption \u201cwas especially disappointing because New York\u2019s law provides religious exemption for long-term care facilities affiliated with the Christian Science Church but not for similar Catholic facilities.\u201d This prompted the sisters to file a federal lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Failure to comply with the 2024 New York law comes with substantial fees and punishments, including a $2,000 fine upon the first violation, eventually racking up a $10,000 fine and up to one year in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Rosary Hill Home is a 42-bed nursing facility located in Thornwood, New York. The suit described compliance with the law as an \u201cact against central, unchangeable, and architectural teachings of the Catholic faith.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanhousingtransition.com\/?p=196\">For Suffering Families, New Right-to-Try Legislation Offers a Glimmer of Hope<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The law requires the nuns to allow transgender patients to be housed with and use the facilities of the opposite sex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>DOJ Joins Catholic Nuns in Lawsuit Against N.Y. 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