A bill by a San Francisco state assemblyman has been signed into law to give California public college students the ability to have their chosen names printed on their diploma.

Assembly Bill 245 is meant to avoid having diplomas “deadname” students, particularly those who are transgender or nonbinary, according to Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco, who authored the bill.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.