On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case, Dignity Health, Inc. v. Minton, concerning Mercy San Juan Medical Center, a Catholic hospital in the Sacramento, California area, which refused to let a gender-affirming procedure for a patient living with gender dysphoria be performed in its facility, as reported by Reuters. The justices declined to hear the appeal without comment. This means that the ruling from the lower court stands. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch—all conservative judges—said they would have heard the case.  Read more