I'm only talking about California, and about care workers, but my point was that a person in the US can be sent to jail for misgendering; sorry if that wasn't clear.

It freaks me out: California consistently starts ridiculous shit that spreads worldwide, so the fact that the California legislature passed this misgendering bill with the penalties it did and that Governor Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown, a former presidential candidate, signed it into law, seems ominous to me.

In fact, when I called to protest, Democrats, including Brown’s office, were very rude.

I would suggest to lawmakers that there are other ways to ensure that nursing homes treat their residents with respect, which they should be doing anyway, than the threat of jail and an attack on the First Amendment.

As we all know, laws such as these, while they would probably be thrown out in a US court, have a chilling effect on free speech.

And Scott Wiener's track record suggests that he doesn't give a flying fuck about other nursing home residents, well women nursing home residents, because he was also behind allowing men to self-identify as women and access women's nursing home and longterm disability care facilities, which was also passed into law (it might have been the same bill) by the lovely "Progressives" of the California state legislature and signed into law by uber-liberal Governor Brown.

As I've mentioned, I have traveled and lived in countries without First Amendment free speech protections, and that has made me a devoted defender of the First Amendment. I am going to oppose any attack on free speech, even if others consider it harmless.