Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 2, § 11030 - Definitions

(a) "Gender expression" means a person's gender-related appearance or behavior, or the perception of such appearance or behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person's sex assigned at birth.

(b) "Gender identity" means each person's internal understanding of their gender, or the perception of a person's gender identity, which may include male, female, a combination of male and female, neither male nor female, a gender different from the person's sex assigned at birth, or transgender.

(c) "Sex" has the same definition as provided in Government Code section 12926, which includes, but is not limited to, pregnancy; childbirth; medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breast feeding; gender; gender identity; and gender expression, or perception by a third party of any of the aforementioned.

(d) "Sex Stereotype" includes, but is not limited to, an assumption about a person's appearance or behavior, gender roles, gender expression, or gender identity, or about an individual's ability or inability to perform certain kinds of work based on a myth, social expectation, or generalization about the individual's sex.

(e) "Transgender" is a general term that refers to a person whose gender identity differs from the person's sex assigned at birth. A transgender person may or may not have a gender expression that is different from the social expectations of the sex assigned at birth. A transgender person may or may not identify as "transsexual."

(f) "Transitioning" is a process some transgender people go through to begin living as the gender with which they identify, rather than the sex assigned to them at birth. This process may include, but is not limited to, changes in name and pronoun usage, facility usage, participation in employer-sponsored activities (e.g. sports teams, team-building projects, or volunteering), or undergoing hormone therapy, surgeries, or other medical procedures.

Notes

Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 2, § 11030

Note: Authority cited: Section 12935(a), Government Code. Reference: Sections 12920, 12921, 12926, 12940, 12943 and 12945, Government Code.

1. Change without regulatory effect renumbering former section 7290.7 to new section 11030 and amending Note filed 10-3-2013 pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of Regulations (Register 2013, No. 40).
2. Amendment of section and Note filed 12-9-2015; operative 4-1-2016 (Register 2015, No. 50).
3. Amendment of subsections (a)-(e) and new subsection (f) filed 5-26-2017; operative 7/1/2017 (Register 2017, No. 21).

The amended version of this section by Register 2023, No. 13, effective 3/20/2023 is not yet available.