The California Supreme Court agreed to review a case about the constitutionality of a provision of gay state Senator Scott Wiener's (D-San Francisco) LGBTQ Senior Bill of Rights that requires employees at senior care facilities to address residents by their preferred names and pronouns.
Review was granted unanimously November 10. As the Bay Area Reporter previously reported, a three-judge panel of the state's 3rd District Court of Appeal in Sacramento came to a unanimous decision in July, in the case of Taking Offense v.
California, that the requirement is unconstitutional under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution's protections of freedom of speech and the free exercise of religion. "We agree with Taking Offense that ...