The San Diego County Board of Supervisors has adopted a new definition of “woman” that would reportedly allow male-to-female transgender residents to demand inclusion as women in jails, homeless shelters, and domestic violence shelters.
The ordinance, passed by a 3-2 vote on April 26, and ratified on May 10 by the same margin, adopts the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), an international treaty adopted in 1979.
The treaty was signed by then-President Jimmy Carter in 1980, but it was never brought to the Senate for ratification.
But the ordinance goes further, expanding the definition of “woman” to include those who simply identify as women: