Sen. Scott Wilk (R-Santa Clarita) is one of two lone Republicans on the state's Senate Judiciary Committee , and has served in the state legislature for 11 years, according to the Daily Signal, who notes that he was the lone voice warning against language in the bill, AB 957, which was amended on June 5 by a Democratic senator to rewrite the state's Family Code to list "gender affirmation" alongside a child's need for "health, safety and welfare."