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California Proposition 6, informally known as the Briggs Initiative, [1] was an unsuccessful ballot initiative put to a referendum on the California state ballot in the November 7, 1978 election. [2] It was sponsored by John Briggs , a conservative state legislator from Orange County .
In 2014, California became the first state in the U.S. to officially ban the use of gay panic and transgender panic defenses in murder trials. [5] Public schools are also required to teach about the history of the LGBTQ community and transgender students are allowed to choose the appropriate restroom or sports team that match their gender identity.
The School Success and Opportunity Act (Assembly Bill 1266), is a California state law which extends gender identity and gender expression discrimination protection to transgender and gender-nonconforming K-12 students in public schools.
In 2011, the State Legislature passed the FAIR Education Act, which makes California the first state in the Union to enforce the teaching of LGBT history and social sciences in the public school curriculum and prohibits educational discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Also in 2011, San Francisco's Human Rights ...
A Southern California school district involved in an ongoing legal battle with the state over the district's gender-identity policy sued Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom Tuesday over a new law banning ...
In California in 2011 the FAIR Education Act (Senate Bill 48) became law, requiring the inclusion of political, economic, and social contributions of transgender people (along with lesbian, gay, and bisexual people and people with disabilities) in California's textbooks and public school social studies curricula. [71]
Under California's anti-discrimination laws, federal and state laws, a transgender or gender-nonconforming student's identity cannot be shared with their parents without the student's permission ...
Proposition 209 (also known as the California Civil Rights Initiative or CCRI) is a California ballot proposition which, upon approval in November 1996, amended the state constitution to prohibit state governmental institutions from considering race, sex, or ethnicity, specifically in the areas of public employment, public contracting, and ...