Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two bills this week intended to protect and bolster access to health care for transgender children and adults.
Senate Bill 107 will ensure that trans children from states like Texas and Idaho that have attempted to limit or criminalize access to gender-affirming health care and their families can take refuge in California.
The law prohibits the state or its law enforcement agencies from cooperating with or participating in the arrest or extradition of a person seeking gender-affirming care or their family.
Newsom also signed Senate Bill 923, which requires health care providers and health insurance companies to provide “culturally competent” training and care to transgender, gender diverse and intersex people.
A 2015 survey of transgender adults by the National Center for Transgender Equality found that some 23 percent did not seek health care in the prior year for fear of not receiving proper care as a trans person.
Both laws were authored by Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, who called it “momentous … for trans-inclusive health care.”
“California is setting groundbreaking standards that will help us create a better, more culturally competent healthcare system for trans, gender diverse and intersex people,” Wiener said in a statement. “No one should have to educate a doctor in order to get the care they need.”
Legislators in at least 19 other states have introduced bills similar to SB 107 to provide refuge for trans youth and their parents, according to Wiener.
SB 107 had multiple co-authors among the Bay Area’s state legislative cohort, including Assemblymembers Mia Bonta, D-Alameda, Ash Kalra, D-San Jose, Matt Haney, D-San Francisco, and Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, D-Orinda.
Equality California, Planned Parenthood, TransFamily Support Services and Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis also co-sponsored SB 107.
“As so many states work to erase trans kids and criminalize their families, California must always have their backs,” Wiener said. “With SB 107 signed into law, California is forcefully pushing back against the anti-LGBTQ hatred spreading across parts of our nation.”
The madness goes on. I don’t see us pulling out of this calamity.
This bill:
1 Prevents trans kids from being forcibly removed from their parents (even if Texas asks us to)
2 Stops trans kids from being forced to have ‘gender affirming operations’ (even if Texas asks us to)
3 Stops trans kids from being forcibly repatriated to their home state (even if Texas asks us to)
California is trying to prevent barbarism
California is not paying for care
Claifornia is the good Samaritan here
Got it ..
We can’t take care of the California population but we can spend California tax money to take care of the other states population.
Hey Newscum, I thought you were the governor/dictator of California … but alas, you are just trying to buy votes in other states. Do you realize that you are going to divide this country worse than any perceived/actual division caused by Trump if on the off chance you get elected president?
Don’t; forget citizens of other countries. We pay for ALL their care as well. Makes sense… not.
We deserve nukes for allowing this barbarism.
How long before some underage kid gets brought to California without his parent’s permission by someone else? Will they be charged with kidnapping by the Feds?
Why is Scott Weiner so worried about this stuff?
So what are you doing about the rampant crime and homeless? I hear crickets…
California and its morally corrupt politicians on display.
They can’t Drive, Vote or Drink……..but they can Sure decide what their gender is!!!
Newsom and Weiner needs to stop promoting and encouraging this behavior.
Kids don’t even know what they are doing and follow their peers.
Agree, wait and see maybe 5 years from now what the suicide rate is for these kids when they realize they made a horrible mistake. Newsum and Wiener should be so proud.
He’s one sick puppy. I saw he also signed a bill legalizing infanticide.
KILLING LIVING INFANTS. He’s in for a reckoning.
He sounds like the return of the Anti-Christ!
Let me tell you if Newsom doesn’t change his way he going to be in trouble when he has to stand before Jesus and answer for what he’s done on earth. I’d be worried, Very worried.
When he’s in hell there will be one hell of a hair fire.
No question about that Snickerdad. But must we all wait for that fateful day to come… and wait… and wait………..
Why doesn’t he do something about gas prices and the cost of living in this state.The priorities are all wrong.Good thing the jerk isn’t running for president.People are just stupid enough to vote for this idiot.
Oh yeah, watch out, it’s just the beginning, he could give a rats ass about the people that actually live here, and then will blame it all on us, can’t believe that people still listen to him with his condescending speeches… blows my mind 😆
A girls volleyball team back east has to change clothes in a restroom one at a time because some mental case boy gets to use the locker room. Claims he is a girl. So instead of the boy who thinks he is girl using the bathroom the school makes the girls do it. This is the kind of thing that makes you think we are lost.
Being walked in on by a big hairy man is very scary when women are vulnerable in a restroom. Toilet seat up covered in pee pee is bad enough!
Why are so many businesses out of toilet seat covers and paper towels during the monkey pox scare?
Enter a public bathroom at your own risk!
Just the dems trying to erase biological women. Nothing to see here except misogyny.
one step closer to the Civil War………..I can’t wait.
Civil war is a scary thought …. It everyday I think we are closer and closer. People think January 6th was bad(and it was), that will be a pleasant memory compared to all out war.
100 years from now will history view pharmacological and surgical procedures on non adults, as mutational ?
How many hundreds of millions are doctors, hospitals and drug makers profiting ? ? ?
Where does the madness come from? Lets see- Newsom, Wiener, Harris and Pelosi all politicians from San Francisco. Hmmmm!
Pretty Evil and gross 🤮. Democrats this is your boy this is the end result of no morals I hope your proud u support child mutilation
Newsom is a very sick, evil, POS. His new boy friend Wiener is a perverted, child molesting assh(&%. We need to call on everyone in this state to vote these sick people out of office. How can anyone see this garbage as sane?
Yes… I agree, he likes the hookers too. Know from mutual friends… a real stand up guy…
“Culturally Competent”: A polite way of saying “Morally repugnant to the majority”.
Oh yeah, watch out, it’s just the beginning, he could give a rats ass about the people that actually live here, and then will blame it all on us, can’t believe that people still listen to him with his condescending speeches… blows my mind 😆
I believe this phony ultra sensitive and excessive concern focused on all the freaky people in this country is a direct result of a “woke’r than thou” competition between wild eyed liberal activist politicians…. and it’s getting worse, growing faster than bacteria in a bucket of old soup left in a dumpster.
No common sense or morals allowed, the more shocking and indecent the better they like it…. a dissenting comment will disqualify you… you racist, fascist, homophobic conservatives!
To understand any problem in America,
look to who profits from the problem
NOT who suffers from the problem.
‘Vanderbilt Exposed for Profit Motives Behind Trans-Treatment; these “Clinics” Exist in CA’
https://tinyurl.com/yeyjcdmv
‘Pediatric Doctor Says Transgender Surgery ‘Big Moneymaker,’ Tennessee Governor Calls for Investigation’
https://tinyurl.com/2p9wc69j
‘Time to Hold Big Pharma Accountable for Pushing Puberty Blockers on Children Off-Label’
https://tinyurl.com/yftpna3f
‘New York Times Admits That Hundreds of ‘Top Surgeries’ Are Being Performed on Children’
https://tinyurl.com/mpspbme4
‘ ‘I literally lost organs:’ Why detransitioned teens regret changing genders’
https://tinyurl.com/sy5uspxb
Decide for yourself, is ‘trans’ fad nothing more than a giant propaganda campaign for doctors, big pharma, hospitals to make money.
Original G: you are totally right. A person who medicalizes to “change” their gender identity is a lifelong medical patient who is worth anywhere from $500k to $1 million to the pharmaceutical/ medical industry. If you decide accept your healthy body as nature made it: that you in fact cannot change your sex no matter what surgeries you do: and that you’re free to live your live authentically & love whoever you want to love without mutilating your body: if you follow that path, you are worth zero dollars to the business. So these hospitals, gender clinics & pharmaceutical companies are not motivated by compassion and care , they are motivated, as always, by money. And virtue signaling politicians are doing their bidding.
They were lifelong patients anyways,they are not mentally fit or phsically,and are already proffesional patients.This is their career.
People with sexual confusion/disfunction/dissatisfaction with own sex need to be secured in a mental facitiy,for their own good,not trying to be mean.They are not safe for themselves or society,and no role model for anything on earth.They need to be put out of sight to stop any more encouragement of this abuse of humanity.