California Governor Gavin Newsom just signed a new law allowing transgender prisoners in the State to be housed based on their gender identity rather than their biological sex.
Newsom signed SB 132 Saturday — among other LGBTQ+-friendly legislation — which will require the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s officers to privately ask inmates during the intake process if they identify as trans, nonbinary or intersex.
If they do, the inmate can then be placed in a facility in which they feel most comfortable and safe.
The new CA law says an inmate’s request cannot be denied based solely on a prisoner’s anatomy, sexual orientation or another factor that may be present among other inmates at any given facility. What the state could deny a request over … legit “management or security concerns,” although Newsom didn’t lay out exactly what that might mean.
If an inmate’s request is denied, the stat… (Read more)
.@GavinNewsom just signed into law my legislation ensuring that #transgender people who are incarcerated will be housed where they are safest, e.g., according to their gender identity.
— Senator Scott Wiener (@Scott_Wiener) September 26, 2020
This is life-saving and deeply important.
Thank you, Governor, for getting it.
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