California’s Supreme Court will consider whether a law that prohibits long-term elder care workers from misgendering transgender residents is an illegal restriction on free speech, the justices announced Wednesday.
In July, an appellate court in Sacramento revived a petition to block a provision of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Long-Term Care Facility Residents’ Bill of Rights that prohibits care workers from referring to residents by names or pronouns other than those chosen by the resident.
That particular provision is a content-based restriction on free speech, and isn’t sufficiently narrowly tailored to justify the burden on long-term care providers, Justice ...