This type of crap always starts in CA and before you know it , the entire country is embracing it. Look at gay marriage, a CA initiative , 20 years ago it was a crazy notion.
The only CA initiatives on gay marriage were Prop 22 and Prop 8 (state constitutional amendment) both defined marriage as between one man and one woman and both passed by wide margins.
Yes, it's true anytime the actual population gets to vote on this nonsense it's thrown out by pretty wide margins. This has to be imposed by a court, legislature or some bureaucracy. My point was like the weather, these insane notions start out on the left coast and make their way east. Our problem in the NE region is there really isn't ballot initiative so the well funded gay lobby only needs to intimidate a small group of officials, rather than convince a majority of people.