On Sunday, October 9, 2011, Governor Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown signed the the Gender Nondiscrimination Act (AB 887) — the law becomes effective on January 1st of next year. The Gender Nondiscrimination Act directly adds “gender identity” to the list of protected classes. California already had legal protections based on gender identity and gender expression, [...]

The article was revised after talking to Masen Davis of the Transgender Law Center (TLC) to more accurately reflect what the signing of this bill accomplishes. California’s AB 433 — the Vital Records Modernization Act — is the bill that actually changes things a lot for transsexual people who were born in California, or live [...]