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.
Lag in implementing billGovernor Gavin Newsom signed the bill into law in September, and it was to have immediately taken effect.
But as the Bay Area Reporter first reported in November, state and local health officials have not interpreted the law or regulations instituted in July by Dr.
Mark Ghaly, the secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency, to mean they need to ask everyone getting tested for COVID-19 the SOGI questions.People seeking tests via the city of San Francisco, for instance, are not asked about their sexual orientation when they make an appointment.
They are asked about their gender identity and can choose such options as "Trans Female," "Trans Male," or "Genderqueer/Gender Nonbinary." Clair Farley, a.