After longtime physician assistant Valerie Kloosterman disclosed her religious beliefs about gender identity, a diversity program leader called her “evil,” her lawyers say.
Shortly thereafter, Kloosterman’s employer fired her, despite her unblemished 17-year record of conscientious patient care at a clinic.
Kloosterman’s attorneys are asking the University of Michigan Health-West (UMH-West) to reinstate her, grant her a religious accommodation, and spare others from “similar discrimination.”
First Liberty Institute, a nonprofit public-interest law firm, represents Kloosterman. This summer, the firm won two U.S. Supreme Court rulings upholding religious freedom and has asked the court to consider hearing two more such cases this fall….
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