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California Supreme Court upholds law barring nursing home staff from misgendering transgender and gay residents, rejecting a 1st Amendment free-speech challenge.

The court ruled the law regulates discriminatory conduct, not speech, applicable in care settings where vulnerable residents are in effect captive audiences.

No justices dissented from the core holding, affirming protections designed to address documented mistreatment of LGBT seniors in long-term care facilities.

The California Supreme Court rejected a 1st Amendment challenge to a state law that protects the rights of gay and transgender people in nursing homes and forbids employees of those sites from using the wrong p

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