Posted on 03/06/2021 9:00:04 AM PST by rickmichaels
California wants to ban boys and girls toy or clothes sections in large stores in order to enforce the gender-neutral presentation of products.
The bill would make it illegal for retailers to put up signs saying 'boys' and 'girls' over displays of toys, clothes or childcare items under the threat of a $1,000 fine.
Meanwhile, stores located in the state that have a website would be required to use titles like 'kids', 'unisex', or 'gender-neutral' rather than dividing goods by sex.
Assembly Bill 1084 requires retailers with 500 or more employees 'to maintain undivided areas of its sales floor where the majority of those items being offered are displayed, regardless of whether an item has traditionally been marketed for either girls or for boys,' according to the Legislative Counsel's digest of the bill.
The bill, which if passed would go into effect on January 1, 2024, was co-authored by Assemblyman Evan Low, D-Campbell, who chairs the California Legislative LGBT Caucus, and Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia, D-Bell Gardens, who chairs the California Legislative Women's Caucus.
The text of the legislation claims the ban is necessary to prevent people from being treated differently due to their sex.
An earlier version of the bill was introduced in 2020, but Low decided to withdraw it to avoid distracting from the COVID pandemic, reported the Sacramento Bee.
Introducing the bill, Low said he was inspired by Target's decision in 2015 to abolish gendered children's sections.
'As much as I'd like to think of this as watershed legislation, this is something the industry is already doing. We're just trying to play catch up,' he said.
Low also cited as inspiration a staffer's nine-year-old daughter, who was confused why she had to go into the boys aisle to find science toys.
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Dear God, please keep my alive long enough to see the demise of these idiots. If not, please send me to hell so I can watch them burn for eternity.
One the one hand, this is super dumb. On the other hand, if a store organizes items by categories - Lego, dolls, preschool toys, board games, etc. - everyone will be able to find what they’re looking for.
If they go on organize the Lego sets by product line or theme, with “Lego Friends” items near one another, Lego Elves, Lego Disney Princesses, Lego Minecraft, Lego Harry Potter, etc. - just like on Lego.com - then it’s super easy.
The only safe place for children is alone in a bathroom with a bearded guy in a dress
Well CA is the home of Loonie Tunes therefor .... the laughing stock of the US.
So let me get this straight ... a store can have all the girls’ toys in one section and the boys’ toys in another, but they just can’t have signs to identify them? LOL.
One can only hope.
The thing that is really ironic is that all of this garbage...supported by people who resisted supposed “stereotypes” since forever...does nothing but reinforce them.
Your boy baby picks up the pink rattle? He’s a girl!
Is it not gender-biased and gender-conforming, and does it not create an unsafe space for children to assume that “boy” refers to a male child and “girl” refers to a female child?
We asked for it.
Loophole. Blank pink sign and blank blue sign.
Worrying about the safety of children on one hand, while encouraging sex hormones and surgical genital mutilation on the other, thereby ensuring high rates of drug addiction and suicide. It’s utopia.
Can someone explain to me just what is wrong with being a boy or a girl?
State government has NO authority to dictate how stores arrange their products.
C’mon San Andreas Fault! Do it! Do it! Do it!
The Left stands by child molesters, you can bet pizza on it.
It’s racist to have mexican and “chinese” food sections too. That stuff should be spread out willy nilly.
Why does no one ever say this is way outside the purview of government? How does anyone have the authority to tell anyone how they may arrange their stuff?
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