A Christian healthcare worker in Michigan is suing her employer, saying she lost her job for refusing to use preferred pronouns and refer for gender reassignment procedures.
This labor dispute began after Valerie Kloosterman, a 17-year physician assistant, refused to agree with two questions on a Michigan University Health-West survey.
“They asked me very specifically, will you use preferred pronouns, and will you refer for gender surgery? I said, ‘I can’t do that,'” explained Kloosterman.
She requested a religious accommodation to the company’s transgender agenda. Her request states that she would be violating her beliefs and medical expertise, that gender is not fluid – regardless of what a patient thinks.
“We’re made in the image of God,” said Kloosterman. “It is not something we can just choose to be – so I had concerns, right?”
During an interview with CBN News, she contended one equity supervisor called her ‘evil’ and blamed her for unrelated suicides of people suffering from gender confusion. Lastly, she asserted she was prohibited from bringing her Bible or faith to work. Kloosterman’s firing came about a month later.
In an e-mail to CBN News, the University of Michigan Health-West stated the organization does not discuss personnel issues, then
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