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The FAIR Education Act is a California law which was signed into law on July 14, 2011. The law compels the inclusion of the political, economic, and social contributions of persons with disabilities and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people into educational textbooks and the social studies curricula in California public schools by ...
A number of cities and counties in the United States have implemented non-discrimination laws for sexual orientation and/or gender identity. As of October 25, 2017, at least 400 cities and counties prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity for both public and private employees. [ 1 ]
In California, the Gender Recognition Act of 2017 was introduced in the State Senate in Sacramento in January 2017 and signed into law by governor Jerry Brown on October 19. The law recognizes a third gender option known as "non-binary" which may be used on state-issued documents such as driver's licenses to more accurately reflect a person's ...
On June 28, 2013, the Ninth Circuit lifted its stay of the district court's ruling, enabling same-sex marriages to resume; [13] minutes afterward, plaintiffs Perry and Stier became the first couple in California to legally wed under state law since the enactment of Proposition 8 in 2008, doing so at San Francisco City Hall at 4:45 PDT, with ...
A 2015 report, co-authored by Mallory, highlights the numerous surveys, court cases and academic studies that document the alleged discrimination and harassment of LGBTQ people by law enforcement ...
California Assembly Bill 1084 (also Britten's Bill) is a 2021 California statute requiring department stores in California to maintain a gender neutral children's section. It was passed by the California State Legislature and signed into law by California Governor Gavin Newsom in October 2021, and enforcement began in 2024.
For trans and nonbinary people, misgendering can leave invisible scars, experts say. Dylan Mulvaney and Sam Smith were recently misgendered. For trans and nonbinary people, misgendering can leave ...
If you're on Twitter and see a person deadnaming or misgendering someone else, you should report it. It'll take you minutes, and truly matters. The harmful anti-LGBTQ microaggression known as ...