[artichokegrower]

I am a California employer

It is against state law for me to:

Let ICE onto the property witout a warrant

Let ICE review employee records without a subpoena

Use E-verify

Not accept the California driver’s license which states non-citizen status for the I-9 process

Have men or women indicated on the business rest room doors

Must provide a lactation facility

Address my employees by the pronoun of their choice

[fr_freak]

Address my employees by the pronoun of their choice

All of the items on your list are BS, of course, but this one is the most tyrannical. It is a law literally dictating to you how you must speak. It is no different than a law which requires you to call the color red "blue" or call a watermelon a "basketball".

In the English language, a person with a penis and testicles is a man, and the corresponding pronouns are he/him/his. This law decides to change the very meaning of all those words, including "man" and force you only to speak using the new definitions. It is Orwell's 1984 being played out in real time. It is the grossest violation of the concept of Freedom of Speech because it dictates the very words you are allowed to use.

There is no way this law holds up in a sane American court (something whose existence we can no longer take for granted), but the very passage of this law is a subversion of the USA in the most fundamental way possible, and should be viewed exactly the same as a law which states that California is now part of communist China.