NEW YORK - Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a new law Thursday that will allow New Yorkers to use "X" as their sex designation on driver's licenses in New York.The Gender Recognition Act will also ensure that New Yorkers can have their gender identity on official documents and provides protections to reduce discrimination against nonbinary and transgender New Yorkers by permitting name change and sex designation changes to be sealed more easily.The legislation will also allow New Yorkers the ability to amend their birth certificates to use a designation of mother, father or parent for the first time.Prior to the law being passed, for a person to change their name they were required to publish their new and previous names, address, place of.