In what is the most authoritarian bill to pass into California law, health care workers who use the wrong gender pronoun could face jail time.

Fox News reports:

California health care workers who “willfully and repeatedly” decline to use a senior transgender patient’s “preferred name or pronouns” could face punishments ranging from a fine to jail time under a newly signed law. California Gov. Jerry Brown signed the legislation last week. […] TRENDING: Crowd Begins Chanting "Fill The Seat" at Trump Rally in North Carolina - President Trump Announces He Will Name Nominee this Week - A WOMAN “It’s just more scare tactics by people who oppose all LGBT civil rights and protections,” [Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener] said in a statement last month. But the language seemingly allows for the possibility, however remote. […] The law states that if provisions are violated, the violator could be punished by a fine “not to exceed one thousand dollars” or “by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed one year,” or both.

Sen. Scott Wiener is the same lawmaker who was instrumental in getting a law passed where it will no longer be a felony to knowingly infect someone with HIV.

Mary Greeley explains what the bill would do to the state of California.

“Several lawmakers are promoting a bill by state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, that would make it a misdemeanor instead of a felony to intentionally expose someone to HIV, the virus that causes the immune system-weakening disease AIDS. The change would treat HIV like other communicable diseases under California law,” explains Greeley.