California bill to make all legal gender changes confidential (applies retroactively)
California bill to make all legal gender changes confidential (applies retroactively)
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cool, but I don't wanna invalidate my passport đ
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I don't see how this law would do that.
Existing law requires the court to limit access to these records to specified individuals, including, among others, the minor, the minorâs parents, and their attorneys.
the records currently are very restricted. this law would make it even more so. This would allow minors to change their name without their parents being entitled to that information.
If you choose to share that information about yourself this law won't effect you. This law will stop some people close to you from having access to your records through the court.
Unless I'm missing something this bill won't invalidate passports, but it will protect trans people from transphobic relatives or others.
Only you and your lawyer can access those if this goes into effect.
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As someone who both is and looks Hispanic, I need to worry about ICE deporting my ass if I can't prove my identity in any particular moment. I can't rely on the identification the state can give me alone. It's not just a trans issue for me, as getting a passport was a long and arduous process before fascists took over and started dismantling the government. With a new name on my California IDs, my old passport might as well be a cousin's
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They should issue a new birth certificate with the correct sex marker to match the person's gender
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It'd be nice to see healthcare facilities do this by default for any care that's even remotely politicized. Paper chart anything that goes into any detail, bill it as a donation or something, and when all is said and done, give the patient the only copy of their record to do with what they will.
Then if you need gender affirming care or an abortion or something, you don't need to worry about that landing you in legal trouble depending on who's in office.
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Not familiar with how these processes work. Assuming I'm reading the website right, this has only been introduced but hasn't been voted on or decided right?
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Yes
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