What The Gender Nondiscrimination Act (AB 887) Does For California's Trans People
By: Autumn Sandeen Monday October 10, 2011 4:51 pm    

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On Sunday, October 9, 2011, Governor Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown signed the the Gender Nondiscrimination Act (AB 887) — the law becomes effective on January 1st of next year. The Gender Nondiscrimination Act directly adds "gender identity" to the list of protected classes. California already had legal protections based on gender identity and gender expression, but how the current California Codes were as written added gender identity and gender expression were a bit difficult to follow.

So there is some explanation of why the technical change to the California Codes needed to be accomplished to clarify that gender identity and gender expression were protected classes in California.