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DOJ Joins Catholic Nuns in Challenge to NY Law Allowing Men in Housing for Women

The sisters run a hospice center in New York, caring for terminal cancer patients.
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DOJ Joins Catholic Nuns in Challenge to NY Law Allowing Men in Housing for Women
New York's Gov. Kathy Hochul in New York City on March 19, 2026. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
Stacy Robinson
Stacy Robinson
6/18/2026|Updated: 6/18/2026
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) is planning to intervene to assist an order of Catholic nuns in their lawsuit against New York’s Gov. Kathy Hochul, the agency announced on June 18.

The nuns filed suit after New York passed a law that would require them to house transgender-identifying male patients in the same spaces as women.

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Stacy Robinson is a politics reporter for the Epoch Times, occasionally covering cultural and human interest stories. Based out of Washington, D.C. he can be reached at [email protected]
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