Posted on 08/17/2017 9:27:38 AM PDT by TigerClaws
California is on its way to passing a new law that makes it illegal to call transgender senior citizens a pronoun they don't like. For example, if an elderly person who was born male and lives in a long-term care facility wishes to be called "her" or "she," the workers there had better do it or face the consequences. The proposed law would even apply to Christian facilities.
SB 219, titled the "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Long-Term Care Facility Resident's Bill of Rights," states, "It shall be unlawful for a long-term care facility or facility staff to.... willfully and repeatedly fail to use a resident's preferred name or pronouns after being clearly informed of the preferred name or pronouns." It imposes fines and jail time on any long-term care employee who refuses to use transgender pronouns. Fines for repeat offenders could be as high as $1,000 and a jail term of up to a year.
The bill will also mandate bathrooms and rooming situations be designated by gender identity and not biological sex. There are no exemptions for long term care facilities run by religious institutions who integrate their beliefs about gender into their policies and practices.
Critics of the law fought against it. California Family Council's Greg Burt testified before the California Assembly Judiciary Committee saying, "How can you believe in free speech, but think the government can compel people to use certain pronouns when talking to others?" He added, "Compelled speech is not free speech. Can the government compel a newspaper to use certain pronouns that aren't even in the dictionary? Of course not, or is that coming next?"
"Those proposing this bill are saying, 'If you disagree with me about my view of gender, you are discriminating against me,'" Burt continued. "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."
Despite Burt's objections, the measure, which is sponsored by the group Equality California and authored by San Francisco Senator Scott Wiener, sailed through committee without even one vote against it.
If this bill sounds familiar, perhaps it's because Canada's Senate overwhelmingly passed similar legislation last month. The Canadian transgender rights bill adds "gender expression" and "gender identity" to Canada's Human Rights Code and to the Criminal Code's hate crime section.
Critics argued the law is a threat to freedom of expression and legalizes false ideas about gender. They also worried that people who denied this gender theory could be charged with hate crimes, fined, jailed, and compelled to undergo anti-bias training.
I will call them IT or insane and California can go f itself
How about “it”??????
“MOM he called me a bad word!”
Blatant first amendment violation.
California’s leaders are infamous for addressing nonsense for legislation while the state burns to the ground.
Is there any way we can light a fire under the CalExit movement?
the left does not understand that it is over stepping calling for things that it does not have the support base for...this is why each year there will be less and less people in position of power across the united states that is from the left.
Yet another reason to drive around with a shovel in the car.
CalExit = 55 electoral votes that Dems won’t get.
I think it’s a great way to keep Trump (nationalist candidates) winning for the next 20 years.
Another way would be to require an IQ test for voting...
Sounds like the overall quality of care at long-term care facilities in CA is about to go down. Who wants to work under Marxist totalitarian rules?
SF is a commie enclave. Weiner lives in a different city well East of SF. But who CAIRS? NOT THE BAY AREA MEDIA.
That’s ultra dtupid
The first amendment clearly protects my right to call them anything that I want be they man, woman, chicken child, he, she, or it.
Unless you’re an illegal alien, then you are above reproach & above the law.
“Now, now, dear. Just remember, ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones...’”
Good Lord. Can’t we have just ONE day without more of this crap being foisted on all of us NORMAL people?
How would this even be constitutional?
I guess Sacramento finally found a crime they are willing to prosecute.
If they could do this, then there is no speech they could not make a crime. What is next, wishing someone a Merry Christmas?
We are on a slippery slope. The direct result of a one party state. In California Republicans are nothing more than the Washington Senators to the Globe Trotters,
Great shirt. But it would be good for 25 to life in California.
Twilight Zone has become reality. Human derangement has taken over half the population of the greatest country in the world.
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