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SACRAMENTO, CA The California Third District Court of Appeals ruled 3-0 that a 2017 state law requiring employees at long-term care facilities to use patientsâ âpreferredâ pronouns violates First Amendment free speech rights.
Taking Offense, an unincorporated association, filed the lawsuit challenging part of Californiaâs Health and Safety Code that requires health facility employees to deny a personâs biological sex and acknowledge a âchosenâ gender or pronoun of a patient. Employees who refused to do so would have faced criminal charges for âmisgenderingâ a resident. Violations could be prosecuted as misdemeanors and violators could face 180 days in jail and a $2,500 fine.
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A California appeals court struck down as unconstitutional a state law that penalized elder-care workers for using pronouns inconsistent with elderly long-term care patients’ claimed gender identity.
Gender identity is a disputed concept. A lack of linguistic clarity has clouded the issue in recent years as the concepts of sex and sexual identity, or gender, a politically and scientifically contentious concept whose definition isn’t universally agreed upon, have become difficult to separate. Despite the distinct meanings of the two words, many institutions and individuals use “gender” to mean biological sex, especially on fillable forms and documents.
Failing to use gender in its new meaning can be costly nowadays.