At the Californian Transgender Advocacy Day for 2012 (CTAD 2012), as a citizen lobbyist I met with a staffer of my State Senator Christine Kehoe, my State Assemblymember Toni Atkins, as well as with Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal. The Transgender Law Center’s Director Of Operations Gretchen Lintner accompanied me in my citizen lobbying visit to Senator [...]

This is the second part of three parts on referring to what California calls my legal change of gender. This is an exercise in cathartic writing for me explaining not only why my change of gender, but also explaining why I haven’t been as prolific in my writing since last summer, nor as active in [...]

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 [...]

This just in from the Transgender Law Center (TLC) on Governor Brown signing the Gender Nondiscrimination Act (AB 887) and the Vital Statistics Modernization Act (AB 433). From their email blast Breaking: Governor Brown Signs Two Historic Transgender Rights Bills Into Law: WE DID IT! Governor Brown just signed two important transgender rights bills into [...]