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California's '''Gender Recognition Act''' (Senate Bill 179) was signed into law on October 15, 2017.<ref name="TLC-factsheet">{{Cite web |title=Fact Sheet: California’s Gender Recognition Act (SB 179) |author= |work=Transgender Law Center |date= |access-date=19 November 2020 |url= https://transgenderlawcenter.org/resources/id/ca-sb179|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406000749/https://transgenderlawcenter.org/resources/id/ca-sb179|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> This bill made it significantly easier for [[transgender]] and/or [[nonbinary]] people to get their [[legal gender]] to match their [[gender identity]], by removing the requirement for any form of medical [[transition]].<ref name="BillText">{{Cite web |title=Bill Text - SB-179 Gender identity: female, male, or nonbinary. |author= |work=leginfo.legislature.ca.gov |date= |access-date=November 19, 2020 |url= https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB179|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230708035626/https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB179|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>

Part of the text of the bill reads:

{{quote|The [[binary gender]] designations of [[female]] and [[male]] fail to adequately represent the diversity of human experience. [[Nonbinary]] is an umbrella term for people with gender identities that fall somewhere outside of the traditional conceptions of strictly either female or male. People with nonbinary gender identities may or may not identify as [[transgender]], may or may not have been born with [[intersex]] traits, may or may not use gender-neutral [[pronouns]], and may or may not use more specific terms to describe their genders, such as [[agender]], [[genderqueer]], [[gender fluid]], [[Two Spirit]], [[bigender]], [[pangender]], [[gender nonconforming]], or [[gender variant]].}}

The GRA does not affect the process for changing [[gender markers]] on documents issued by the federal government, or documents issued by other US states.