If you're enjoying this article, you'll love our daily morning newsletter, How To LA. Every weekday, you'll get fresh, community-driven stories that catch you up with our independent local news., which would force California’s health officials to do what Wiener says they should have been doing anyway: provide a place on health care forms for people who identify as LGBTQ to voluntarily note their gender identity and sexual orientation.
Local health officials, however, told auditors they needed state guidance about what data to collect, something Wiener’s bill seeks to address by requiring them to collect sexual orientation, gender identity and intersexuality data “on any forms or electronic data systems, unless prohibited by federal or state law,” according to the bill’s analysis. State health officials would also have to provide a public report to the Legislature detailing their progress.
After San Gabriel's city council rejected the proposal as"too narrow", one city councilmember argued the entire DEI commission, created in the aftermath of George Floyd's murder, had"run its course."Los Angeles City Council President Paul Krekorian has yet to schedule a meeting to discuss ethics reforms — more than a year-and-a-half after they were first proposed.