Gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman is asking his colleagues on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to join him in calling on California's highest state court to protect the rights of LGBTQ seniors, particularly those who are transgender or nonbinary.
It comes amid a legal battle over requiring employees at senior care facilities to address residents by their preferred names and pronouns.
At the board's first meeting September 7 following its summer recess, Mandelman introduced a resolution calling on the California Supreme Court to reverse a lower court ruling that struck down part of the state's LGBTQ Senior Bill of Rights as unconstitutional.