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Chadwick Boseman: an Appreciation Page 12 No. 656 • September 10, 2020 • outwordmagazine.com Chadwick Boseman: An Appreciation page 12 FARMFtoork covid edition Voting in California? Here’s your Step-by-Step Guide Outword By Joan Cusick alifornians will have multiple options to vote in the general vote with a regular ballot if you choose. If you did not receive a ballot in the mail, Staff election on Nov. 3 — either by mail or in person, on Election a poll worker will find your name on the list of registered voters and you will be asked to PUBLISHER Day or up to 29 days in advance. C sign your name before you vote. Fred Palmer Based on information from the California you return your ballot on or before Election If the poll worker cannot find your name ART DIRECTOR/PRODUCTION Secretary of State and the League of Women Day. Here are your three options: on the voter rolls, you may request a Ron Tackitt Voters of California, here’s a step-by-step 1. MAIL-IN BALLOT: To return your provisional ballot, which will be counted guide to voting. only after elections officials determine you GRAPHIC DESIGN ballot by mail, the postage is now prepaid. Kristy Harris Register to Vote No stamps are required. Mail-in ballots must are eligible to vote. The poll worker can tell Ron Tackitt The first step is to make sure you’re be postmarked by Nov. 3 and received in you how to determine if your provisional registered to vote. California offers online your county elections office no later than 17 ballot was counted and, if not, the reason EDITOR why. [email protected] voter registration, which also allows you to days after Election Day. check your registration status. 2. IN-PERSON RETURN: To return your ARTS EDITOR To register, you must be a U.S. citizen and Ballot Tracking ballot in person, take it to any authorized Voters in all 58 California counties may Chris Narloch resident of California who will be 18 years ballot drop-off location. 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Free telephone consultation, affordable rates and some PPO insurance accepted. 916-952-8594 | www.DrNicola.net 4 Outword Magazine September 10, 2020 - September 24, 2020 • No. 656 outwordmagazine.com California Legislature Passes Bill to Ensure Transgender People Are Housed Where They Are Safest he California Assembly passed Senator Scott Wiener’s “Everyone deserves basic human respect, agency to Trans and Gender-Nonconforming agency and dignity,” said Equality California people who are incarcerated to choose a place to (D-San Francisco) bill requiring the California Department of Executive Director Rick Chavez Zbur. “SB 132 is complete their sentences where they will be Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to house transgender, a critical first step toward ending the violence safer,” said The TransLatin@ Coalition President T and harassment to which transgender, gender- and CEO Bamby Salcedo. “This legislation is gender-nonconforming and intersex people according to their own nonconforming and intersex people are overdue and we are grateful that we got to work sense of where they will be safest. subjected while incarcerated. We are so grateful with a coalition of great organizations and The bill now heads to Governor Newsom for Requires, unless a specific security or to Senator Wiener for his deep personal amazing individuals who put their minds and his signature. Known as the Transgender Respect, management concern warranting denial can be commitment to fighting for justice for the trans their might to push to make sure this historic Agency and Dignity Act, SB 132 is co-sponsored articulated, that CDCR house a transgender community and to our coalition partners for legislation is set in place.” by Transgender Law Center, TransLatin@ person at a correctional facility designated for their leadership and advocacy. SB 132 will save “This legislation represents a crucial measure Coalition, TGI Justice Project, ACLU of California, men or women based on the individual’s lives.” toward reducing the violence and harassment Equality California, Lambda Legal, and Medina preference, whether by the person’s gender “While transgender, gender-variant, and faced by trans people incarcerated in the state of Orthwein LLP. The California Senate initially identity, or, alternatively, by their sex assigned at intersex (TGI) people will never be safe in California,” said Nora Huppert, Renberg Fellow passed the bill in May 2019 with a bipartisan birth if the incarcerated person believes such prisons, SB 132 will be a useful tool for TGI and attorney at Lambda Legal. “Hopefully SB 132 vote of 29-8. The co-sponsors then converted it to housing would be safer. people housed in California prisons to access is but the first step toward eliminating the a two-year bill so that the co-sponsors and Requires all staff, contractors, and volunteers of safer housing and to advocate that their correct conditions that expose trans people to violence Senator Wiener could meaningfully integrate CDCR to consistently use the gender pronoun pronouns and honorifics be used,” said and which are often created or ignored by the feedback collected from a survey of the ~1,200 and honorific that an individual has specified in Transgender, Gender-Variant, & Intersex Justice state.” trans, gender-nonconforming and intersex people all verbal and written communications with and Project Legal Director Alex Binsfeld. “For far too long transgender, nonbinary and currently in CDCR custody. regarding that individual. “This bill is a necessary and long overdue intersex people have been stripped of their SB 132 would require that incarcerated “Transgender people in prison — particularly harm reduction measure that will allow our dignity, their sanity, and, for some, their lives transgender people in CDCR custody be trans women — are at severe risk of assault and trans family to seek safer situations while behind bars,” said Jen Orthwein, Founding classified and housed based on their sense of sexual victimization because they’re incarcerated,” said Shawn Meerkamper, senior Partner at Medina Orthwein LLP.
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