CA trans issues - call Gavin Newsom

[toastykitten]

Per Trans News Network, there are currently 10 bills on Gavin Newsom's desk that support LBGQT+ rights:

Trans Rights Bills

• AB 82 / SB 497 – These privacy-focused bills provide needed confidentiality for patients, providers, and volunteers involved with trans healthcare. AB 82 offers important protections for reproductive healthcare, and prevents prescription data about drugs like testosterone and mifepristone from being stored in databases that could be accessible by other states.

• AB 1084 / SB 59 – This pair of legal name change bills includes one that streamlines the process of updating legal name and gender, and another to ensure that older court records of name changes can’t be used to out or dox trans people.
  

• SB 418 – Bolsters nondiscrimination protections for health insurance plans and requires the plans to cover up to a 12-month supply of prescription hormones.
  

LGBTQ+ Rights Bills

• AB 554 – Requires insurance coverage of all FDA-approved medications that prevent HIV such as PreP, without prior authorization. 

• AB 727 – Mandates that schools and universities must provide all youth suicide hotline information, including numbers for LGBTQ+ hotlines in the wake of Trump’s defunding of the Trevor Project hotline.

• AB 678 – Requires state housing programs to coordinate with LGBTQ+ communities to ensure homelessness programs remain inclusive and nondiscriminatory for queer people experiencing homelessness, directly combatting federal efforts to force homeless shelters to ban trans people. 
  

• SB 590 – Expands paid family leave protections to include the diverse caregiving needs of queer families.

• SB 450 – Clarifies California adoption law to allow for LGBTQ+ couples who live outside of California to adopt children born in the state through California proceedings, which are more inclusive than many other states.

Call him at (916) 445-2841 to ask him to sign these bills into law.

Comments

[minoanmiss]

I am very glad to see this. Does it help if people outside CA call and say "if you run for president I'll remember what you did with these bills"?

[toastykitten]

I don't think it really helps to call his office if you're not in CA since it's not going to get tallied if you're not a resident. You could possibly leave a review or comment on his podcast and ask him to stop inviting transphobes and racists onto his show.

[minoanmiss]

makes a note