A California bill would require the sealing of petitions by minors to change their name and gender on identity documents, which experts say others have accessed in order to cyberbully and harass transgender youth.
for instances of doxxing trans people, or maliciously publishing their personal information online, and has been linked to suicides.
The California bill, which was introduced last month and has not yet been scheduled for a hearing, would require the state to seal any petition filed by a person under 18 for a change to gender and sex or to gender, sex and name in identity documents. Also sealed would be documents from a petitioner’s court proceedings.
He had insisted by age 6 that he should not be called a girl and would grow up to be a man, Barrelet said. He came out as transgender at age 8 and changed the name and pronouns he used in school, even before his mom petitioned the court for a legal change to his identity documents.
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