California Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco, on Thursday proposed a bill that would allow transgender and nonbinary public college students to use their preferred names instead of their birth names on diplomas.
According to Chiu, recently introduced Assembly Bill 245 will ensure that diplomas don’t mistakenly use a graduate’s birth name, if they prefer to use a chosen name.
Chu said the bill is especially important since transgender and nonbinary people face higher rates of discrimination in the workplace. Not having their preferred name on their diploma can create even more challenges, especially if the individual chooses not to openly identify as transgender or nonbinary at work or school.
“Making sure college records reflect a student’s name is a no-brainer,” Chiu said in a statement.
“Transgender and nonbinary students face many challenges, and this simple policy will ensure they have one less barrier to overcome.”
The bill aims to standardize the process for updating records after a student graduates, as the system varies across all of the state’s public colleges. It builds off of AB 711, authored by Chiu and signed into law in 2019, requiring that K-12 school districts update the diplomas and transcripts of former students to reflect their updated names and gender markers.
AB 245 is being backed by LGBTQ civil rights organization Equality California.
“Deadnaming — or referring to someone by the name they were assigned at birth instead of the name they currently use — is a traumatic and unnecessary experience faced by far too many transgender and nonbinary Californians,” Equality California executive director Rick Chavez Zbur said. “This small but important act will help ensure all of our students are treated with the dignity they deserve.”
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Glad to see they are working on the most pressing issues facing the community /s
Exactly!
Representing their constituents well with these high priority concerns, LOL
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Well done. As that is an official document that is used for legal purposes such as credentialing and background checks I’m sure it won’t create any problems that someone can electively put whatever name they choose on their diploma. I am going to graduate as Diplomy Diplomaface. I fully understand the existing ability to legally change my name ahead of my diploma thus allowing me to have it read what I prefer but this plan is WAAAAY better.
another complete waste of people’s time, money, and health….how about cleaning up the major city you were elected to represent….better yet, take the time you would of spent on this sillines and put it toward getting this state back on it’s feet
huh? homelessness, drug addiction, taxes and this is a priority?
This is ridiculous.
And lawmakers are pulling salary to debate this?!
Move onto the big problems, and work your way back to this…
Ridiculous
Recall the Nuisance!
Unbelievable! SMH.
This is just the start. Every idiot and his brother is going to be running the country. They no longer know what is appropriate and what is not.
Oh, so you have a brother? What’s the big deal. Let people be and stop your trying to make them what you want.
Good one JO JO. The big deal is the degradation of the country. Incrementally ever whacked out idea will become the norm. Do you honestly think the radicals will stop at this or the next stupid idea.. Why should we bend to every cockamaimy idea that comes along. I’m sorry if you can’t see where all of this is leading to.
A diploma should have the name of the person that graduated at that time. It’s a document for that period of time in a persons life. This whole th8ng is getting ridiculous
More leftists propaganda shoved down our throats. Our children have been forgotten since the schools aren’t open, homeless everywhere, small businesses shuttering their doors for good under the grip of power hungry criminal politicians and this is the crap they waste tax payer money on 🙄
What is the leftist propaganda you are referring to here?
This is total lunacy. This will never stop until people finally say no to these insane people. Every day there’s another jackass idea that appears. Can’t
wait for tomorrow.
I had to look up Nonbinary. For those who want to learn some new terms, here are all the definitions that fall under Nonbinary. There will be a test at the end.
Agender – having no gender or being genderless
Androgyne – identifying somewhere in between man and woman
Bigender – having two gender identities, either at the same time or interchangeably
Demiboy – partially, but not completely, identifying as a man, boy, or masculine person
Demigender – having partial connection with one gender (male, female, or other)
Demigirl – partially, but not completely, identifying as a woman, girl, or feminine person
Enby – a slang term to refer to a non-binary person, not all non-binary people identify with this term
Genderfluid – moving between two or more gender identities at different times, in different circumstances, etc.
Genderqueer – a non-normative or queer gender, having no exclusive connection to any gender
Multigender – having more than one gender
Neutrois – neutral or null gender, similar to agender
Non-binary – an umbrella term to describe people whose gender is neither man or woman; can also be used as an individual gender identity for someone who is neither a woman nor a man, but does not identify further
Pangender- having many or all genders within one’s culture
Transfeminine or Transfem – a person assigned male at birth (AMAB) who identifies with a feminine gender, but does not necessarily identify as a woman
Transmasculine or Transmasc – a person assigned female at birth (AFAB) who identifies with a masculine gender, but does not necessarily identify as a man
I consider myself Genderfluid. When I’m at large events I will use the bathroom with the shortest line.
I think I’ve got it.
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I’m fairly liberal …… my gender is not on my diploma…. so…. why is this a thing? Shouldn’t you put the name you call yourself on your diploma anyway?
No wonder 75% of the vaccine is still in refrigerators, they are taking care of more important problems. Who wants to bet they got there shots already.
you can bet gavin and his family got theirs!!
#RecallGavinNewsom
I can understand wanting to be accommodating when possible, but transcripts, diplomas, are a matter of fact checking. Hard to check that if people are simply picking names.
What about people that haven’t selected their preferred gender? Do they get documentation in both?
Not saying trans people are deceitful, but the idea of people being able to select their name on their official documentation would seem to be rife for fraud…get documentation under both names and now you can sell one…
Finally, completely agree that we have much more pressing things in this state than this.
Why not just change your name legally then everything matches?
You do realize job application verifications ate all computer based, so the mismatch will trigger a NO interview right off the bat.
Not to mention banking laws, SS all of that has to match.
Perfect example of rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic! Or as a famous General in WWII told the Germans, “Nuts!”.
The author of the original article did a bad job explaining this bill. A person must provide documentation that they have legally changed their name, before getting their name changed on their diploma.
A person can’t just have their preferred name on a diploma like this article implies. A person must have their legal name on the diploma.
From the text of the bill: “This bill would require a campus of the University of California, California State University, or California Community Colleges to update a former student’s records to include the student’s updated legal name or gender if the institution receives government-issued documentation, as described, from the student demonstrating that the former student’s legal name or gender has been changed.”
thank you. This actually helps clear up many of the issues that have been raised in the comment section.
Hey Natalie
Can you believe they intend to “inaugurate” a president to an empty National Mall, surrounded by 25,000 troops, after a “victory” claimed in the dead of night, and a certification of electors in the dead of night. 😏
Crazy right?
What’s all this obamagate declassification about? I’m sure you have an explanation for this as well
Natalie that makes sense. But I just looked up UC and state policy and it said if you legally change your name they already replace it, obviously you have to return the old one.
They also update their records, again once proof of legal name change is completed.
what a bunch of baloney. Your politicians hard at work toiling endlessly on the things that matter most.
“Deadnaming”….now that’s a new one. I submit a different definition of the term : how ’bout we use it to refer to politicians that support various brain-dead initiatives and should not be reelected because they serve no purpose other than dreaming up nonsense (and are therefore basically politically dead)?
Was this the first thing on his ‘to do’ list?
CA politicians are really good at solving the problems we don’t know we have and doing nothing about the issues that most of us are concerned with.
Hey, when am I getting my new Drivers License, my EDD check and my vaccination? Sacramento is a mess…..
this must be the weiner bill
again why is this guy even allowed near any lawmaking
just 30 years ago this guy would be in jail
from above
I fully understand the existing ability to legally change my name ahead of my diploma thus allowing me to have it read what I prefer but this plan is WAAAAY better.
ty for that comment as it makes all sense
obviously the weiner does not read for pay attention
life lesson kids
learn to read or look like an idiot ….
hey weiner there you go change your name to idiot and people will then understand you to the full extent and NOT take you seriously
Give them 1-8 years and it’ll be us in jail for pointing that out.
I’m a Turtle !
You answered incorrectly and owe me a beer.
You aren’t turtley enough for the Turtle Club.
I’m in the Dickey-Do Club myself.
Call me >)&$%#@ and make sure you pronounce it right or I’ll sue you for melting all of my snowflake dreams.
Kek.
Mr.Chiu is an idiot. If We do not get rid of these do gooders We are sunk!!!!
Bob,
We are already sunk! With Biden and the Demo ilk associated it is a matter of the flush to complete!!
See you in the Bay as reclaimed water!
Most women change their name when they get married. Should the state go back and change the name on their diploma? No wonder our state is falling apart. And people want their children back in puplic schools.
Calling someone their name is “traumatizing?” Wow. This spits in the face of people who have actually been through something traumatizing.
Well said. Perhaps we could solve this if everyone was called “Pat”.
Will the same rule apply for the participation trophy? SMH.
Now THIS is what we need to spend our taxypayer money on! Not the Mad-Max style speeders on the highway that need policing, not the roads themselves which are grumbling, not all the screwed up sidewalks and potholes, not on deporting illegal aliens which are a drag on the economy – but this.
When a Governor struggles with his own sexuality, this is what happens in California, it becomes a priority.
His voice makes one wonder he/she is transitioning! Jenner style.
Instead of wasting money accommodating the derangement of the mentally ill the money would be better spent on mental institutions.
it is popular now to pander to broken people who the majority of which end up regretting their permanent change, sadly some commit suicide
You’d think there would be bigger things to worry about just now.
“First we overlook evil. Then we permit evil. Than legalize evil. Then we promote evil. Then we celebrate evil. Then we persecute those who still call it evil”
CA legislature needs to go back to being part time elected officials
Just when you think California can’t get any more outlandish, the legislators say, “hold my beer!” David Chiu, you are priceless. Actually, this one is hilarious, since oh about 40% of college diplomas have female graduate’s maiden names on them, and yet somehow we have managed to move on with our lives…