declined the case without comment, which is its usual practice. Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and Neil Gorsuch, all conservatives, said they would have taken the case.When officials at Mercy San Juan Medical Center, a Catholic hospital near Sacramento, learned Minton was transgender, they canceled his scheduled hysterectomy shortly before it was to take place in 2016, calling it an “elective sterilization” that went against Catholic beliefs.Minton had the hysterectomy three days later at a Methodist hospital that was part of the same chain, Dignity Health, but farther away for him.