"The incoming Trump administration and Republican congressional leadership have made clear that targeting and erasing trans people is among their highest policy priorities, and California must have our trans community members' backs," state Sen. Scott Wiener said in a statement to media outlets.
"As transgender people are viciously targeted by right wing political leaders in ways that inevitably lead to harassment & violence, we need to have their backs," Wiener, a gay Democrat, posted on X, formerly Twitter.
"When I learned I was unable to change my name in California without being forcibly outed online and exposed to harassment I was appalled," Hazel Williams, a trans San Francisco homeless rights advocate who worked with Wiener on the bill, said in a statement.
"There are 220,000 transgender and nonbinary adults in California. All of us deserve privacy and safety and this legislation is a vital step in that direction," Hazel Williams added.
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