As Katy Grimes noted, SB 132 by San Francisco Senator Scott Wiener “would allow prison inmates to decide their own sex, how they want to be addressed (Mr. Miss, Mrs. Ms.), and would require California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials to refer to them by that chosen sex and, and house them with other inmates of the same sex.”
SB 132 enjoys support from the ACLU, the National Center for Lesbian Rights and other groups. After one false start, Weiner’s measure emerged unchanged from the Appropriations committee. As a recent case confirms, some of the measures Weiner’s bill advocates are already in operation.
