Tuesday, 10 October 2017
California Law Threatens Nursing Homes for Not Using Transgenders’ Preferred Pronouns
Written by Michael Tennant
California nursing home workers had better start choosing their words carefully. A law signed last week by Governor Jerry Brown threatens long-term care workers with fines and jail time for refusing to call a transgender patient by the individual’s preferred pronoun, even if doing so violates an employee’s religious beliefs.
The “LGBT Senior Bill of Rights” gives transgender residents of California long-term care facilities the right to be addressed by the name and pronoun of their choice. If an employee “willfully and repeatedly fail
to use a resident’s preferred name or pronouns,” the employee could be fined up to $1,000, jailed for up to one year, or both.
https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/health-care/item/27100-california-law-threatens-nursing-homes-for-not-using-transgenders-preferred-pronouns
