A California Court Dealt a Blow to Religious Liberty. It’s Time for SCOTUS to Act.

The California Court of Appeals rules that a transgender patient can sue a Catholic hospital for refusing to perform a hysterectomy.

Yesterday, the California Court of Appeals issued a truly remarkable opinion in a truly remarkable case. It held that a Catholic hospital could indeed face legal liability for failing to perform a hysterectomy as part of a female-to-male “transition” — even though its policy broadly bans sterilization surgery generally (not just for trans individuals) and even though the hospital referred the patient to a non-Catholic facility in the same...