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.
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?
Yes
cool, but I don’t wanna invalidate my passport 😞
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 minor’s 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.
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
This proposed law is very narrowly tailored to the handling of records about court proceedings. It is unjust the way you are treated by this country, but this bill is not that, at least not in the ways you describe.
If ice or any other law enforcement agency wanted the documents at issue, they could only get them through a court order. This would be unchanged.
If you need these records to defend yourself in a court, both you and your lawyer are entitled to that information with or without this bill.
This bill will not change your state ID. The process for changing names and gender markers on state IDs is unchanged.
If you want to change the name on your ID, you have to submit the court order yourself. You also have the right to not update your IDs. None of this would be changed by this bill.
They should issue a new birth certificate with the correct sex marker to match the person’s gender
California already does that, you just have to file for it with the department of public health.
Only works if you were born in California, since birth certificates are handled by individual states.
Ah, good to know, thanks!
CA allows for birth certificate gender marker changes by self declaration. For $52 and a notary you can get a copy of a new birth certificate with a different gender marker.
Name changes require you to attach a court ordered name change document.
Different parts of the government handle different things. Courts don’t do birth certificates.
Ah, good to know, thanks!
