first city on the east coast to provide transition related healthcare to its city employees. Autumn Sandeen, a U.S. veteran and transgender woman, received a letter from a Navy official stating, "Per your request the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS) has been updated to show your gender as female effective 12 April 2013." Allyson Robinson of Outserve declared, "To our knowledge, this is the first time that the Department of Defense has recognized and affirmed a change of gender for anyone affiliated, in a uniformed capacity—in this case a military retiree." Ben Barres became the first openly transgender scientist in the US National Academy of Sciences in 2013. For the first time, the California Department of Education's list of recommended books for grades Pre-K-through-12 included a book with a transgender theme, I Am J by Cris Beam. California enacted America's first law protecting transgender students. The School Success and Opportunity Act extends gender identity and gender expression discrimination protection to transgender and gender-nonconforming K-12 students in public schools Jennifer Pritzker came out as transgender in 2013 and thus became the world's first openly transgender billionaire. A six-year-old girl named Luana, who was assigned male at birth, became the first transgender child in Argentina to have her new name officially changed on her identity documents. She is believed to be the youngest to benefit from the country's new Gender Identity Law, which was approved in May 2012. Jennifer Finney Boylan was chosen as the first openly transgender co-chair of GLAAD's National Board of Directors. On 31 October 2013 Paris Lees became the first openly transgender panellist to appear on the BBC's Question Time programme, drawing praise from commentators who included former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott and the Labour Party deputy leader Harriet Harman. Stephen Alexander, of Rhode Island, became the first high school coach to come out publicly as transgender. On 1 November Audrey Gauthier was elected president of CUPE 4041, representing Air Transat flight attendants based in Montreal. She thus became the first openly transgender person elected president of a union local in Canada. Q Radio, which went on the airwaves in September, claims to be India's first radio station which caters to the country's lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people. San Francisco's first Project Homeless Connect for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people was held. The diagnostic label gender identity disorder (GID) was used until 2013's release