San Francisco will incorporate the use of preferred pronouns into its criminal justice system instead of biological pronouns.
Prosecutors and others in the legal system will be required to ask witnesses and defendants about their names and their identifying pronouns under the mandate.
“Here in San Francisco, we must, and we will,” said San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin at a press conference Wednesday, calling on other leaders to model “respect.”
“We are leaders in modeling respect and modeling dignity and compassion, in all aspects of our society, including in our legal system,” he added.
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The requirement will help protect youth in his state, the district attorney said, citing data from the Trevor Project that said nonbinary or transgender youth are less likely to impose self-harm or attempt suicide if their preferred pronoun is used.
San Francisco is the second area to implement such a policy, as Washtenaw County, Michigan, previously announced a similar requirement.
San Francisco had required nonbinary identifications on forms from departments that collect demographic data.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed mandated government entities that collect the data to include a third, nonbinary option, in addition to male and female, for gender identity in 2018.
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Boudin, who is facing a recall fight, first took office in January 2020 with the financial backing of liberal billionaire George Soros.
Soros’s support was enough for Boudin to defeat then-interim District Attorney Suzy Loftus, who picked up endorsements from California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, and then-Sen. Kamala Harris.
