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California Court Rules Nursing Home Employees Can Deadname Transgender Seniors
Source: KQED
California Court Rules Nursing Home Employees Can Deadname Transgender Seniors
KQED News Staff and Wires
Jul 20
LGBTQ rights advocates said Monday that they will seek to challenge an appeals court decision tossing out part of a California law designed to protect older LGBTQ residents in nursing homes.
The 2017 law is intended to protect against discrimination or mistreatment based on residents' sexual orientation or gender identity.
The Third District Court of Appeal overturned the part of the law barring employees of long-term care facilities from willfully and repeatedly using anything other than residents' preferred names and pronouns.
In other words, it was illegal for employees to intentionally misgender trans residents by using the names and pronouns they were assigned at birth, a practice known as deadnaming.
The ban on deadnaming violates employees' rights to free speech, the court ruled Friday.
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KQED News Staff and Wires
Jul 20
LGBTQ rights advocates said Monday that they will seek to challenge an appeals court decision tossing out part of a California law designed to protect older LGBTQ residents in nursing homes.
The 2017 law is intended to protect against discrimination or mistreatment based on residents' sexual orientation or gender identity.
The Third District Court of Appeal overturned the part of the law barring employees of long-term care facilities from willfully and repeatedly using anything other than residents' preferred names and pronouns.
In other words, it was illegal for employees to intentionally misgender trans residents by using the names and pronouns they were assigned at birth, a practice known as deadnaming.
The ban on deadnaming violates employees' rights to free speech, the court ruled Friday.
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Read more: https://www.kqed.org/news/11881770/california-court-rules-nursing-home-employees-can-deadname-transgender-seniors
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