Choosing your Gender? California Passes 'Gender Equality' Laws, Promotes Cultural Revolution

California Governor Jerry Brown signed two new bills into law yesterday aimed at what is being called "transgender equity". The first allows those now self identified as transgendered people to obtain new birth certificates. In this act they choose whether they are a man or a women. The second provides special civil rights protections for such transgendered people.

SACRAMENTO, CA (Catholic Online) - The first bill, Assembly Bill 433, is known as the Vital Statistics Modernization Act. The bill makes it easier for Californians to obtain updated birth certificates. It was composed by Assembly member Bonnie Lowenthal (D- Long Beach) and was sponsored by the Transgender Law Center and Equality California.Clearly it is a part of the social agenda of the homosexual equivalency movement.

The new law empowers those self identified as "transgendered people" to obtain new birth certificates or other identifying documentation that reflects their decision as to whether they are to be treated as a man or a woman as a matter of law. These individuals are only required to provide medical documentation that proves they have undergone what is called "clinically appropriate treatment." Such a law will make it easier for people who decide to surgically alter their bodies - and then take hormones - to be called something different because of this alteration in their legal documents as to their gender.

The second bill, Assembly Bill 887, known as the Gender Nondiscrimination Act, was drafted by Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) and was sponsored by Equality California, Transgender Law Center, and Gay Straight Alliance Network. The law makes it an offense to discriminate against a person on the basis of self chosen gender identity, giving elevated civil rights status to people who have made this kind of choice as to whether they are to be treated as a man or a woman.

In addition to AB 887, Governor Brown passed Seth's Law. The law is intended to strengthen anti-bullying policies in California schools by making their policies more uniform. The law is expected to provide guidelines for teachers and administrators and mandate shorter timelines for investigating bullying claims.

Finally, Brown vetoed the Survey Data Inclusion Act that would have required the state to ask questions about sexual identity, sexual orientation, and domestic partnership status among others. Brown said those questions should not be asked by the Legislature and Governor, but should instead be rigorously and thoughtfully handled by a different process. It is unclear what process he was referring to.

The laws mark the latest in a round of increasingly government sponsored changes to the culture in California. As the state steadily moves away from the two parent, heterosexual marriage - and the family and society founded upon it - it is apparently trying to stand out as a leader in promoting the homosexual equivalency movement and a cultural revolution. 

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While few will argue against equality and legal protection for all citizens, critics say the new laws are much more than that. They reflect a fundmantal re-making of of the social order and an erosion of the marriage bound, heterosexual, two parent family as the foundation for civil society in America.

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