DOJ backs nuns caring for dying cancer patients in fight against New York trans ideology mandate

The Justice Department is backing a group of Catholic nuns who say New York's transgender policies could force them to choose between their religious beliefs and continuing to care for indigent cancer patients in their final days.

"States should take notice that they cannot require Americans to abandon their religious beliefs in the name of woke gender ideology," Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said in a Thursday statement.

"For more than a century...