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A California appeals court struck down as unconstitutional a state law that penalized elder-care workers for using pronouns inconsistent with elderly long-term care patients’ claimed gender identity. Gender identity is a disputed concept. A lack of linguistic clarity has clouded the issue in recent years as the concepts of sex and sexual identity, or gender, a politically and scientifically contentious concept whose definition isn’t universally agreed upon, have become difficult to separate. Despite the distinct meanings of the two words, many institutions and individuals use “gender�...

California court upends part of law to protect gay seniors DON THOMPSON, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, wears a face mask as he speaks on the floor of the Senate in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, July 15, 2021. Gay rights advocates said Monday, July 19, 2021 that they will seek to challenge an appeals court decision tossing out part of a California law designed to protect older LGBTQ residents in nursing homes.Rich Pedroncelli/AP SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gay rights advocates said Monday that they will seek to challenge an appeals court decis...

The middle of meetings with top officials from the white house administration, he said look, every country has a right to build a wall. you want to build a wall, that's fine, asking us to pay for it, that's a different story. that's really what we've seen mexicans sort of taking offense. there doesn't seem to be opposition from government officials on the wall, it's the idea that they would have the pay for it that seems to question their dignity and having them stand up for their own interests especially when you have a former mexican president really calling on the president to stand his gro...