Posted on 07/19/2017 2:45:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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?"
Burt continued, "Those proposing this bill are saying, 'If you disagree with me about my view of gender, you are discriminating against me,'" saying, "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 right bill adds "gender expression" and "gender identity" to Canada's Human Rights Code and to the Criminal Code's hate crime section. This, despite objections from critics who argued it is a threat to freedom of expressions and legalizes false ideas about gender. Critics further worried that people who denied this gender theory could be charged with hate crimes, fined, jailed, and compelled to undergo anti-bias training.
keyboard spew alert
safest thing is to use a gender neutral phrase:
HEY YOU -— get your arse over here RIGHT NOW!
Disgusted?
Ya gotta read this...!
A great novel showing where this is all going.
Which side is fascist again?????
Is “Old Fart” proper?
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No, That’s for male whatevers.
Females would be “Old Queefs”.
“Females would be “Old Queefs”.
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Really? They certainly wouldn’t like that.
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If YOU can’t figure out what sex you are, how do you expect ME to guess?
It’s like gun-control:
INCREMENTALISM.
They KNOW the number of seniors already fussy about this is less than 1 in a million.
So they’ll pass THIS law, knowing it’s purely symbolic:
That sets the precident.
Then they’ll reallllly crank the machine up for college, high-school, even middle-school etc and when people scream, The Establishment will say..
“Hey this is NOTHING NEW, we already do this for seniors and you KNOW that, now GET WITH THE TIMES..!!” and most of the cowardly drones will go along with it.
It’s just like gun-control.
“Be reasonable, it’s just for junk guns/Sat Night Specials/Sniper rifles/assault weapons/Cop Killer Bullets...you don’t want to be an EXTREMIST, do you..?”
AD INFINITUM.
They key is the precident.
More Stoopid Stuff from Brown’s Kalifornia.
We’re awful close to revolution. And the politically correct thugs need to be put in that Alaska prison for violating our 1st amendment right. If a polar bear ate a Communist, and it screamed as it was being consumed, would it make a sound?
So much for the first amendment. Liberals have become extremely scary.
Problem is, nowadays the liberals have decided they can "jail" you if they don't like your free speech.
lol
If someone wants to be called a pronoun other than the one that goes with their sex, tattoo it on their forehead.
In my defense, I might have had one too many glasses of wine before posting.
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