The Socialist Nannies in the California legislature have soooo solved all the issues of the state – streets and sidewalks covered with feces and needles, rising property crime, horrible K-12 education, etc. – that they have decided to become Store Managers and dictate to retail stores how they are to display children’s merchandise.

Introduced February 20, 2020, by Assembly critter Evan Low (D-mented), AB2826 would …

A new California bill would require some retailers to have gender-neutral floor space inside their stores. […]

It would do away with “boys aisles” and “girls aisles” and require that children’s products be offered in a single, gender-neutral section.

Low would have you believe there’s been a particularly evil sham perpetuated upon the public by not having sparkly-pink dresses with unicorns hanging with the green dinosaur t-shirts.

Unjustified differences in similar products that are traditionally marketed either for girls or for boys can be more easily identified by the consumer if similar items are displayed closer to one another in one, undivided area of the retail sales floor.

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.

Now, does Evan Low really believe that parents and grandparents are too stupid to be allowed to shop for their own offspring without his benevolent guidance? That they have been paralyzed by signs reading “Girls Clothing 5-8”?

“Oh Harry, Susie really wants a Star Wars t-shirt for her 9th birthday, but they are all out of them here in the Girls section. Do you think we will be allowed to see if there are any in the boys’ department? What will happen to us if we are caught?” cried no grandmother ever.

This bill doesn’t concern any issue of safety or fraud. This is a bill that micromanages the decisions of businesses on how they market and display their products in their own stores. This bill makes an ideological judgment that there is no legitimate reason to have dresses in the girls’ department and boxer briefs in the boys’ department.

Evan Low is just another member of the Church of The Left using the power of the state to impose his religiously held convictions that males and females are fungible. He is now trying to get retail businesses to adhere to his beliefs – that it is wrong and eeeevvviiilll to allow boys and girls to express themselves through clothing and play choices as boys and girls.

The people who scoff that California isn’t on the road to socialism because we still have private business need to understand that when the State starts seizing the means of production – e.g. micromanaging the day-to-day operations of a business – that is the definition of Socialism. Add to that the abomination of Assembly Bill 5 that is destroying all independent contractors throughout the state and yes, California as a Socialist Nanny-ocracy is evident.

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