California Gov. Gavin Newsom has approved a law in the state for transgender criminals and another law that provides grants to hospitals for hormone therapy for transgender persons.
According to CBN News, under Senate Bill 132, prison inmates who identify as transgender, non-binary or intersex will be able to choose their gender identity when they are admitted to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
The bill is known as the Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act and was introduced by state Sen. Scott Wiener in hopes of reducing the possibility of violence against transgender inmates.
“SB.132 protects transgender people in prison, by allowing them to be housed where they’re safest, instead of automatically being placed in the facility corresponding to their birth-assigned gender,” Wiener tweeted about the bill in early September. “Trans women are frequently brutalized in men’s prisons.”
Under the law, the state can refuse a request if there are “management or security concerns.”
In a second approval, Newson approved the Transgender Wellness and Equity Fund, which uses taxpayer dollars for treatments and medical procedures for transgender children.
The law earmarks grants for hospitals and clinics for hormone therapy and gender reassignment surgeries.
Assembly member Miguel Santiago says the law provides “critical medical…
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