Equality California / Transgender Law Center: "Equal ID Act Passes Key Assembly Committee"
by: Autumn Sandeen
Wed May 13, 2009 at 13:30:00 PM EDT
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Equality California / Transgender Law Center Press Release: Equal ID Act Passes Key Assembly CommitteeEquality California and the Transgender Law Center have an new press release out, entitled Equal ID Act Passes Key Assembly Committee:
The Equal ID Act took one step closer to becoming law today when it passed the State Assembly Judiciary Committee by a 7-3 vote. The bill, sponsored by Equality California (EQCA) and introduced by Assemblymember Ted Lieu (D -- Torrance), increases the legal rights and recognition enjoyed by transgender people by clarifying that qualified transgender people born in California can return to the county of their birth to obtain a court order reflecting their correct gender and accompanying name change. The court order is then used to obtain a corrected California birth certificate.