California government documents will recognize gender identity

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California state-issued identification documents will describe their holders by “gender identity” rather than sex beginning in 2019.

On Sunday, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a bill that aims “to ensure intersex, transgender, and nonbinary people have state-issued identification documents that provide full legal recognition of their accurate gender identity.”

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