The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is investigating whether an employee at a Michigan hospital system was fired for refusing to use a patient’s preferred pronouns and assisting in “sex trait modification” procedures, the agency’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced Friday.
The health care worker allegedly requested religious accommodations from certain employment practices like using patients’ preferred pronouns even if they do not match with their sex and from helping with “certain sex trait modification procedures,” according to a press release from the HHS.
An HHS spokesperson has yet to respond to questions from The Hill on the name of the health care system under investigation.
If the employee was fired for this reason, the press release states, the termination was a violation of federal conscience laws.
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Author: Marty Kaufmann
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