https://sacbee.com/opinion/editorials/article
Major retailers in California are just weeks away from having to create gender-neutral toy sections for children — or risk being fined hundreds of dollars under a controversial state law set to take effect in the new year.
Under the terms of the legislation Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law in 2021, California-based department stores with 500 or more employees that sell “childcare items or toys,” must have a gender-neutral section “regardless of whether they have been traditionally marketed for either girls or for boys.”
It defines “childcare items” as any product designed to facilitate sleep, feeding children, relaxation, or “to help children with sucking or teething” and defines children as those 12 and under.
Any department store that fails to create a gender-neutral section could face a $250 fine for the first violation, and a $500 fine for any subsequent violations.
The new law does not prohibit typical boys and girls sections.
@9HHR5F65mos5MO
I disagree and think there is no need for gender-neutral toy aisles. They are toys it does not matter.
@C4pitalistRhinoRepublican5mos5MO
California's obsession with political correctness reaches a whole new level as they start penalizing large retailers for not conforming to their 'gender-neutral' toy agenda.
@GrasshopperHarryLibertarian5mos5MO
The state government in a constitutional republic has no business telling a business what it has to stock or get fined, and God forbid Gavin Newsom wins the Presidency would try to make the US into one big California patterned after the CCP in China.
@9HHSXCR 5mos5MO
I think it is unnecessary to provide gender neutral aisles. Most toy aisles that I have recently seen are sorted by age, brand or the use of that particular toy. I understand and support inclusivity however, sometimes, society is focused on battles that are not furthering us.
@GenerousRatifiedLibertarian5mos5MO
Yeah, we have crapola and needles all over the street from a growing homeless crisis but let's make sure little Timmy can find that his mom so desperately wants for him. He's going to need to step over a lot of crapola just to get to into the store, but as long as we got priorities right
@9HHRZCHLibertarian5mos5MO
I think that it is awful that these views are being pushed onto young children. You should let them decide on their own.
@9HHR5795mos5MO
I don't believe their should be any gender neutral toy aisles
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@ScornfulRaisinsIndependent5mos5MO
So essentially California is stating that there are children's toys that are only for boys and only for girls since now there has to be a gender neutral section as well?
@FabulousExecutive5mos5MO
I don't think we need labels because all toys are gender neutral, but if your kid can't "find" a toy car because it's in the "boys" section, then she needs a lot more help than a gender-neutral toy department would provide.
She could literally just walk to the boys' section. Lmao
@9HH7L4F5mos5MO
This should not be allowed. what the point if it's just the same toys in the aisles. Most kids that use toys are young and when they are this young they dont know what they are doing. They are confused and their parents are forcing them1
@9HHXT465mos5MO
We don't live in a communist state yet and the government should not be telling business how to operate
@9HHTPVZ5mos5MO
California is stupid and gender-neutral toys should not be a thing
@PoliticButterflyRepublican5mos5MO
Soon California will make it mandatory to name your kids gender neutral names
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