yes, assuming you are medical professional in a long term medical care facility, knowingly and purposely calling someone the wrong pronoun after being informed otherwise,
Which is still nowhere near as bad as intentionally giving someone HIV.
Right.
But, it looks like both end up being misdemeanors.
And the bill is exclusively for long-term care facilities and it looks like it has more to do with visitor rights and removing discrimination than anything else.
There should be zero situation where calling someone the wrong pronoun gets more jail time than intentionally giving someone ANY std, much less the one that causes AIDS.
The fact that anyone suggests that there should is what's wrong with liberalism.
Yes, knowingly giving someone AIDS should always be a harsh crime. I don't think anyone is disagreeing with that.
That is irrelevant to the other bill. It isn't like you can only have so many things be a felony, therefore one law's punishment was traded for another. Wouldn't this argument be a red herring?
And the verbal actions mentioned in the law leave a lot of room for interpretation on purpose. It says: "(5) Willfully and repeatedly fail to use a residents preferred name or pronouns after being clearly informed of the preferred name or pronouns."
This bill looks like it is focusing on two things:
1. Discrimination in long-term care facilities 2. Inaccurate recordkeeping based on personal beliefs in long-term care facilities
It is literally possible in California to spend more time in jail for misgendering someone than knowingly giving someone HIV.
LITERALLY NOTHING MAKES THAT OKAY. No situation, no focus, NOTHING should make mean words more criminal than killing someone.
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