Gavin Christopher Newsom (born October 10, 1967) is an American politician and businessman who is the 40th governor of California, serving since January 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 49th lieutenant governor of California from 2011 to 2019 and as the 42nd mayor of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011.
CA legislators send Newsom LGBTQ bills to sign
In the final days of their 2021 legislative session, California lawmakers approved a bevy of legislation addressing various sexual orientation and gender identity concerns from the mailbox and coroner's office to the toy store aisle.
It is now up to Governor Gavin Newsom to sign them into law or veto the bills. One of the bills, Assembly Bill 1184, aims to protect the privacy rights of people receiving sensitive health care services, such as gender-affirming care.
It is one of two trans rights bills Assemblyman David Chiu (D-San Francisco) carried this year. His AB 245 prohibiting public universities from deadnaming trans and nonbinary students — that is using their former names they were given based on the sex they were assigned at birth —
