Posted on 12/22/2015 1:54:30 PM PST by Mariner
Another bid to legally compel transgender people to use bathrooms corresponding with their anatomy at birth has stalled out before it could officially get started.
Activists who spent months collecting signatures to put the question before voters conceded they had not gathered the nearly 366,000 needed to qualify for next fall’s statewide ballot. Gina Gleason, a spokesperson for the organization Privacy For All, said there remains a strong desire to rescind a two-year-old state law allowing people to use restrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their gender identities.
“But,†Gleason said in a statement Monday afternoon, “much of California is still being introduced to the issue.â€
Karen England, another advocate with the group, said there was no singular cause for the shortage of signatures.
“Certainly the holiday season is not the best time to make a final push with petitions, but we just did not find the same urgency to enact a new law today as there was two years ago to overturn a law scheduled to be enacted in a matter of weeks.â€
In 2013, after Gov. Jerry Brown signed the first-of-its-kind Assembly Bill 1266, opponents submitted more than 600,000 signatures for its repeal. Elections officials eventually determined that the advocates were still short of the 505,000 needed that year to put the referendum on the ballot. Privacy For All Students, the original coalition, challenged the rejected petitions in court, where they still hope to prevail.
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The problem is getting it on the docket in a timely manner. It's being slow-walked.
Waiting for the California law requiring businesses to have singular restrooms instead of the multi-person public restrooms.
I'm waiting for California to mandate urinals in women's restrooms in order to accommodate those who were born as males but who "Identify" as female.
Will they have these requirements in public buildings ... including the office portions normally off-limits so the politicians and state workers can live under the rules imposed on others?
“Waiting for the California law requiring businesses to have singular restrooms instead of the multi-person public restrooms.”
I can see where they would be good with that providing the user of the bathroom cannot file suit after the inevitable problems this will cause.
It doesn’t matter anyway. Any time a ballot initiative goes against the will of the elites, they just get a judge to throw the results in the garbage.
When does California pass a law mandating everyone set up rest rooms labeled “Peter Pan, Tinkerbelle, and the Fairies”?
Inquiring minds want to know.
So very true.
Not difficult to understand the malaise of the general electorate. Why bother?
The fact that this is the subject of a law shows that the entire country has turned into an lunatic asylum.
Not the entire country, just the parts of it where you can see really tall buildings.
Get out where the sky is big and the fields are wide open and you’re back in the real America. Unfortunately, the good guys are outnumbered.
Simple: “With Penis” and “Without Penis”.
“...Unfortunately, the good guys are outnumbered....”
Not outnumbered so much as the Progressives have a more firm grasp of government bodies in some areas.
I hope this is on the November 2016 ballot. It could impact the Presidential election.
I’m waiting for California to mandate urinals in women’s restrooms in order to accommodate those who were born as males but who “Identify” as female.
The “international signs” for male/female, which were supposed to have pants/skirt, had the bottom scraped off so you couldn’t tell which had been male and which female.
One more court decision and we are headed in that direction.
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