California driver's licenses and birth certificates could have a third option for gender in addition to male or female under legislation unveiled Thursday by Democratic lawmakers. Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) and Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) would establish a new nonbinary gender marker for official state documents. The bill, SB 179, also would streamline the process for people to change their gender on such documents. Jo Michael, of Equality California, a gay rights advocacy group, said the bill had personal resonance. "As the LGBT community — but especially the trans community — is under assault in this country, California needs to go in the opposite direction and embrace the trans community and support the trans community and modernize these laws," he said.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 26, 2017 21:30 UTC