California's latest insane gender policy takes effect next month
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Via: texan1211 • 2 years ago • 12 commentsBy: Gov. Gavin Newsom (Restoring America)
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Opinion California's latest insane gender policy takes effect next month ByBrad Polumbo December 09, 2023 06:00 AM
Parts of California are so downtrodden that people need to consult "poop maps" to avoid human feces while walking outside, homelessness is rampant in major cities, and the cost of living is out of control. But California's state government thinks now is the time to … regulate Toys "R" Us.
A law passed by the state legislature and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) in 2021 is set to take effect in the new year, mandating "gender-neutral" toy sections in large toy retail stores. As the Washington Examiner reported after Newsom signed the bill, "Retail stores that fail to comply with the mandate risk being penalized with $250 fines for initial violations and $500 fines for all subsequent violations."
What grave societal ill were legislators hoping to address?
"Keeping similar items that are traditionally marketed either for girls or for boys separated makes it more difficult for the consumer to compare the products and incorrectly implies that their use by one gender is inappropriate," the legislation says.
The lawmakers who advanced this bill were very clear that gender ideology was driving their decision-making.
"The segregation of toys by a social construct of what is appropriate for which gender is the antithesis of modern thinking," said Assemblyman Evan Low, who sponsored the bill. "We need to stop stigmatizing what's acceptable for certain genders and just let kids be kids."
There are so many problems with this that it's hard to know where to begin.
For one, there's just a question of priorities. With all the problems the state is facing, this is what the California state government is focused on?
Secondly, this regulation is a "solution" to a "problem" that doesn't exist. There are exactly zero people who wake up every day thinking about how the real thing holding back their child's development in life is the fact that some stores have gendered toy sections. And it's not like stores categorize toys this way for anything more than convenience; parents are entirely free to buy their daughter's toys from the boy's section or vice versa.
It used to be considered common sense in America that government intervention in private affairs is only ever justified when there's a real threat to someone's health or safety. But now, the ideology that reigns supreme in California barely blinks twice at inserting the state into the most mundane levels of people's lives.
There's also a potential free speech problem with this new mandate. Companies might be able to challenge this regulation in court and argue that it violates their commercial free speech rights to be forced to participate in California's "gender-neutral" view of childhood development.
What's more, it's yet another regulation and headache layered onto private enterprise in a state that is already one of the most expensive states in which to do business. How many more companies need to relocate out of the Golden State before its government stops piling on?
Yes, in the grand scheme of things, this policy really isn't that big of a deal. But it's a microcosm of everything that's wrong with California and the ideology progressives want to impose on the entire United States.
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Ok. Who ask Democrats if they could increase the stupidity?!
Really, all the problems in this Democrat run shit hole and THIS is what they decide is the most important?
An insignificant, symbolic gesture that has no real bearing on how one negotiates their day.
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California didn’t go far enough, they should require stores to offer a child gender free clothes section as well.
I probably then, shouldn’t give them ideas about gender fluid children sections.