If passed into law, larger brick-and-mortar stores would be required to have unisex sections for toys like these wood story blocks and clothes for youth – legislation that was introduced last year by Democratic California Assembly Members Evan Low and Cristina Garcia.
“Stores would be able to sell the same products they do now as long as they maintain some areas where shoppers can find all toys or clothes, regardless of gender-based marketing, under CA AB2826 (19R) from Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Campbell),” Politico reported last February. “It would apply to department stores with 500 or more employees beginning in 2023.”
‘Inclusion’ singling out businesses
Making toy shopping more “inclusive” was the motivation behind the bill, as expressed by homosexual activist Low, who serves as the chair of the Legislative LGBTQ Caucus in the California State Legislature. He told Politico that “This is an issue of children being able to express themselves without bias.”
It was recently divulged that the COVID-19 pandemic was the reasoning behind the year-long delay to review the proposed transformation of toy aisles, but Low attempted to make the bill look like an urgent civil rights issue.
“[T]he policy behind this bill is not only important in regards to addressing perceived societal norms but also ensuring that prejudice and judgment does not play a prominent role in our children’s lives,” Low said last May, according to Reason. “I look forward to working on this issue in the future.”
In the wake of the pandemic – with aggressive lockdowns and restrictions enforced by far-left Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) still in effect – businesses are striving to stay afloat to compete with Amazon and other online retailers, and Low’s proposed law would make climbing back even more difficult if stores are forced to reconfigure their sales floors or face $1,000 fines for not eliminating gender norms for customers.
It was pointed out by Reason that stores in California are only permitted to operate at 25% capacity one year into the pandemic. However, it appears that reviving the deep-blue state’s economy is on the backburner as legislators seek to tout a radical left agenda that ignores many pressing issues.
“There are, of course, numerous issues more pressing than where Barbie dolls and Nerf guns are placed in businesses that are already being frequented by shoppers less and less,” The Western Journal pointed out. “Homelessness in major cities, budget deficits, illegal immigrant crime and a rise in overall violent crimes in some areas come to mind.”
The left’s “attack on business, biology and families” through the proposed gender identity fines were argued to go hand-in-hand with the science-defying COVID lockdowns that have tragically put a large proportion of retailers out of business.
“Given the abundance of high-tech toys aimed at children, we should consider ourselves lucky, as a society, that some children even seek out playing with tangible toys,” the Journal added. “Tablets, game consoles and other electronics too often replace traditional toys, but in California – where public policy defies logic in preference of virtue signaling – the toy sections must be reined in and many rather choosing classic 2yr old musical toys.”
Genderless society in the making …
Retailers are not the only ones that are called to bow down to gender politics, with Mr. Potato Head being just one of the casualties witnessed in the left’s cancel culture onslaught on America.
“The news that California’s lawmakers intend to police toys but not criminals, of course, comes as toymaker Hasbro has announced the iconic Mr. Potato Head will no longer be a mister,” the Journal noted. “The potato will now simply be known as Potato Head after spending nearly seven decades as a mustached spud. The company confirmed Thursday that the beloved toy will be rebranded completely this year …”
And much more is expected to come as the Biden administration’s far-left agenda sets in.
“The country’s southern border is now a national security threat under the leadership of President Joe Biden, the country’s capital is still occupied by armed soldiers and a 63-year-old man who is now known as Rachel Levine could soon be confirmed as the assistant health secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,” the conservative daily added.
In fact, recent headlines revealed that Lavine was recently blasted by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) for believing there is nothing wrong in encouraging children to have sex changes at the age of 14 – a view that is considered by many to be equivalent to child abuse – and the left is even pressing for such procedures to be administered without parental consent or knowledge.
It is argued that the cancel culture movement to ban anything resembling traditional Judeo-Christian values is in full effect in California – and will only get worse with a president who caters to the far-left and its destructive ideologies.
“In Sacramento, it’s business as usual as woke lawmakers seek to take down gender norms and punish those who don’t get on board with the insanity,” the Journal concluded. “The endgame seems to be pushing the country toward a financially destitute, morally bankrupt and gender-neutral future where everything is purchased on Amazon – which bans books that are critical of junk gender science.”
A laughing matter?
California Family Council’s Greg Bert says the California Assembly’s bill is giving federal judges something to laugh about.
“The stores should be able to display their products the way they think their customers like and if that’s by gender that should be up to them,” Bert expressed in an interview with One News Now. “It’s quite hubris for legislators to think that they should be able to dictate how products are displayed on the shelves simply based on their own preferences.”
He mused that he can envision the U.S. Supreme Court laughing at the bill and its author in the Assembly.
“He’s introducing it as if the First Amendment doesn’t even exist,” Bert added. “If the government allows this, there is no limit to what legislators would dictate to stores. We’ve got to be able to discuss these things without banning the speech we disagree with. How did that become something we’re teaching our kids?”
Bert pondered that if the government has the right to ban speech that offends someone, “what country is that?”
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Copyright American Family News. Reprinted with permission.
the sick and perverted is rampant in californias government.
These days, it seems sick and perverted IS ALL THAT exists out in commiefornia.
The “Socialist Democrat Party State” political officers and Gestapo are just getting started.
You will obey, be loyal and support the “Socialist Democrat Party State” or you will be classified as
“Enemies of the State”.
And what’s stopping these freaks from shopping in whatever section of the store they want to ?
Are they FREAKING out of their minds!?!? When I go shop for school clothes, I do not want to have to sort through what some legislator thinks will make that more equitable. I want to find what i need for school.
Just STOP already!!
This is not a problem for California. They’re apparently never going to open the schools again.
YES they are out of their ******* minds..
If I owned a store in California like Walmart, the first time those Idiots running California came into my store with a Notice that we are violating the law by having separate Boys & Girls, or Mens & Women’s Sections for our Clothing or Toys or any product category – think Mens Deodorant or Women’s Deodorant or Men’s Shavers or Women’s Shavers – I would say thank you very much and hand them a note that the Store will be CLOSING for the Next 30 Days, And Do it!. If they don’t back down and Continue with the Harassment the 2nd Note I would hand them is that Every Store we own in California will be Closing for the Next 30 Days. If that doesn’t convince the Idiots running California, my Third Note would state: Due to the Idiots Running the State of California all of our Stores in California will be closing Permanently in 60 Days!!! Goodbye!!!
AND FOLLOW THROUGH with that… This is why last year, i kept saying ANY SANE business owner, that runs delivery companies, should have CUT OFF ALL deliveries (no matter for what), to every leftist city pushing the defund the cops movement etc…
“Stores would be able to sell the same products they do now as long as they…..”
Yes, children’s clothes and toys are now “controlled substances” !!
PROOF this is not about equality, BUT CONTROL.
There can be no such thing as a genderless society, biology makes that impossible. That aside, have any proponents of this silly notion actually done a survey of consumers? Probably not, this is not the way the liberal activists work. parents most likely want some sort of guidance when shopping not just one massive free for all. As for “children being able to express themselves without bias”, they need some place to start before going anywhere, they don’t have the experiences behind them to often make good choices.
A survey of consumers?? HELL NO, they’d not do that.. OR if they did, they’d only LISTEN TO the 2-3% who responded “THIS is a good idea”, and ignore the other 98%!
When I read the brief summary I thought that one or the other of the presenters of the bill must be in the LGBTQP community. Lo and behold I was right.
No chance this will become a part of Californication’s laws!
The California law or how to make boy’s sissies and dress them like girls, all in the name of “inclusivity”. A one party state of nut cases. These nuts should be put in nut houses permanently, do not pass go, do not collect two hundred dollars. How is that for Monopoly? Like I have stated before, if you put these nut cases on the donkey farm, the donkeys would throw the nut cases off of the donkey farm, because the donkeys have more common sense, than these fools who call themselves human beings. Human beings have a brain and these so called people obviously do not have a brain!
Did you realize they’ve already shown that Monopoly is racist? (Yes, there is no end in sight.)
More and more, i am thinking Thanos was right, in that humanity needs a good ‘snapping’ of half of it out of existence.. EVERY LIBTARD!
“The potato will now simply be known as Potato Head after spending nearly seven decades as a mustached spud.”
The first batch they send out should be in boxes with a bearded woman on the front.
Don’t give them any ideas? What next. Ken and barbie, become hermaphrodites?
I used to think that proposals like this were Unbelievable, now it’s just another display of rampant insanity.
Same here. Back in the 90s, when this insanity was starting most of us were like “just you wait till they get into the real world. Then they’ll wake up and wise up”. BUT WE ARE SEEING JUST Exactly what the real world is doing.. CAVING IN to their nonsense..
Mao will be happy. He was one of the first dictators with gender neutral designer clothes.
Democratic California Absurdity would be a better name for them. They would be a laughing stock if their goal was not so carefully designed and malicious.
I can’t wait for the first charge to be filed and contested in court, this is ludicrous beyond belief and will surely be defeated!
That being said, the Left are proving the “Paradox of tolerance” as clearly we have allowed this to go much to far!
This is clearly an issue of mental illness and as such can not be tolerated mush less embraced.
It serves none to embrace mental illness, it needs to be dealt with, treated for what it is, not viewed as the norm!
To any, even casual observer, looking at our society today, would have to conclude only that, this is one sick puppy!
Don’t waste Time and Money fighting these idiotic rules in Court. Just Close your Store or Hopefully “STORES”. See how the Political Elite like it when they don’t have Your Stores Income Taxes to pay their Salaries and Local Property Taxes. I bet this Insane Rule will be Repealed within 24 Hours even if they have to call a Special Session of the Legislature and the Governor has to leave his Dinner at The French Laundry to sign it!