Posted on 08/27/2017 4:36:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A bill that passed the California state senate and is now moving through the Assembly could threaten jail time for anyone who refuses to use a transgender person’s preferred pronoun.
The law is currently limited in its effects to nursing homes and intermediate-care facilities, but if passed, those who “willfully and repeatedly” refuse “to use a transgender resident’s preferred name or pronouns” could be slapped with a $1,000 fine and up to one year in prison, according to the California Heath and Safety code. The state senate passed the bill 26-12 at the end of May. Since then, the Assembly Judiciary committee recommended the bill unanimously and the General Assembly held its first hearing on the legislation Wednesday.
“How can you believe in free speech, but think the government can compel people to use certain pronouns when talking to others?” Greg Burt of the California Family Council testified in July. “This is not tolerance. This is not love. This is not mutual respect. True tolerance tolerates people with different views. We need to treat each other with respect, but respect is a two-way street. It is not respectful to threaten people with punishment for having sincerely held beliefs that differ from your own.”
Titled the “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Long-Term Care Facility Residents Bill of Rights,” the legislation also requires nursing homes and care facilities to allow residents to use the bathroom of their choice, regardless of biological sex. The bill’s author, state Sen. Scott Weiner, argues that religious views don’t hold weight in public areas.
“Everyone is entitled to their religious view,” Weiner said. “But when you enter the public space, when you are running an institution, you are in a workplace, you are in a civil setting, and you have to follow the law.”
Experts argue it is “pretty unlikely that, if this law is enacted, such prohibitions would be limited just to this [nursing home] scenario,” UCLA First Amendment scholar Eugene Volokh told National Review. Volokh speculates that lawmakers chose to apply the bill to nursing homes not because there is an overabundance of transgender seniors in the state, but because the demographic group is likely to garner sympathy.
The bill is one of several pieces of gender discrimination legislation moving through California’s Congress this summer. The body is also considering mandatory transgender training programs for companies that have more than 50 employees, CBS Sacramento reported.
While that legislation doesn’t punish those who refuse to use gender identity pronouns, it does affirm the right to transgender people to be called what they wish.
Both bills await decision in the Assembly.
As if that'll stop the courts from ruling in its favor.
Obamacare anyone?
How is this even legal?
I hope so. The absurdity of the Rats needs to be allowed to evolve to absolute insanity in order to awaken more voters to the Trump side.
I only have two words to describe my feelings toward their mental illness; eff them.
To the rats, what the Supremes decide is irrelevant. The will make arrests regardless.
Indeed, but they would have to have one of their saner moments.
If this flies, thought crime is right around the corner.
See, I'm good! That meets the Pronoun Requirement!
My solution: Call everyone, male or female, “bubba”. Or, if this triggers anti-southerners, change to “buttface”.
Fine, I’ll just stop using the proper pronoun and substitute, “Hey, Weirdo!”
Democrats: the party of perverts, sickos and deviants.
Catering to the sub half 1%.
Now you can incarcerate the average moron, simply by initiating a conversation on transgender pronouns.
Better yet, ask the average moron to define ‘pronoun’......
It boggles the mind.
Hell it is not only there. My daughter had to listen to this sh*t from an advisor during the freshmen orientation at WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY in Winston Salem NC, implying that it they didn’t use the “correct” pronoun with them “the instructor, educator, professor, advisor” there could be implications and problems for the students. In addition, everyone in leadership kept complaining and and worrying everyone about the dire straights that Trump has left the country in with “his” racist actions and comments about Charlottsville, Va saying dangerous times on campuses will be on his and his fault...actually they are blaming the wrong president...the one at fought left in Jan 2017 and he has been building this fire for over 8 years and is now fanning it in the “dark” from the sidelines - unfortunately. She was very upset and honestly scared and intimidated by all the words and the shear volume and tone of it by the fact it was coming from the very top down over and over and repeated again and again...real indoctrination...to get in line and tow the line and shut up or get out.
Weiner or Wiener is a f*cking nut case and show be put into one of these “transgendered homes for the gender confused”, permanently.
Backup plan - put him in with Charles Manson. Oh what a lovely bunch of coconuts, they are.
Transgender nurse: Address me as a woman, grandpa, or I’ll call the cops and have you arrested.
Old man: Just try it, honey, and I’ll kick you in the balls.
Now we know why everyone in Communist Russia was addressed as Comrade.
So, can we assume this guy is all for arresting/deporting illegals and prosecuting/jailing those who try to protect them from the law?
It gets so damn confusing sometimes....
Oh PLEEEEEEEEEEEEZE do it. Please put Democrat insanity on the national stage for all to see.
The people that SERIOUSLY propose such nonsense should be hanged.
Just what is one supposed to call a sick bastard
Use, ENINITY on the weak -minded liberals!
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