California Appeals Court Overturns Anti-Misgendering Law on First Amendment Grounds

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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 patientsโ€™ 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 isnโ€™t universally agreed upon, have become difficult to separate. Despite the distinct meanings of the two words, many institutions and individuals use โ€œgenderโ€ to mean biological sex, especially on fillable forms and documents.

Failing to use gender in its new meaning can be costly nowadays.

A New York human rights law banning gender identity discrimination imposes fines of up to $250,000 for failing to use a personโ€™s preferred personal pronouns.

Social media giant Twitter bans users for โ€œmisgenderingโ€ or โ€œdeadnamingโ€ transgender people, categorizing it as harassment and abuse. Deadnaming is referring to people by names they used before they changed their gender identityโ€”for example, calling Caitlyn Jenner by that personโ€™s birth name, Bruce Jenner.

Facebook reportedly recognizes at least 58 genders, allowing users to select which gender to use in their profile self-descriptions. Among them are Androgynous, Bigender, Cisgender, Gender Fluid, Genderqueer, Non-binary, Pangender, Trans, and Two-Spirit.

But in a rare legal defeat for the transgenderism movement, a ruling by the Court of Appeal of the State of California, 3rd Appellate District, sided with First Amendment speech protections over activists. The ruling by the three-judge panel was unanimous.

The court decision in Taking Offense v. State of California, came on July 16. Taking Offense is an informal group of state taxpayers.

The court decision affects the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Long-Term Care Facility Residentsโ€™ Bill of Rights, which the California Legislature added to the stateโ€™s Health and Safety Code in 2017.

State Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat, said in 2017 that he wrote the bill because LGBT seniors face special challenges that werenโ€™t covered by existing nursing home laws, local media reported.

BYย MATTHEW VADUM

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