<p>California Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) signed a new law Saturday mandating that many large retail stores offer some toys in gender-neutral sections, a move advocates say encourages children to consider toys without taking into account gender stereotypes.</p>
<p>&#8220;This bill would require a retail department store that is physically located in California that has a total of 500 or more employees across all California retail department store locations that sells childcare items or toys to maintain a gender neutral section or area, to be labeled at the discretion of the retailer, in which a reasonable selection of the items and toys for children that it sells shall be displayed, regardless of whether they have been traditionally marketed for either girls or for boys,&#8221; reads the law.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s unclear how large the gender-neutral section has to be to satisfy the &#8220;reasonable selection&#8221; requirements.</p>
<p>The law will go into effect in 2024 and will bring with it a possible $250 fine for a first violation, and up to a $500 fine for each subsequent violation. The California state legislature <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1084">suggests</a> that the law may keep consumers from &#8220;incorrectly&#8221; believing that a given toy may be &#8220;inappropriate&#8221; for one gender and not the other.</p>
<p>“Part of it is to make sure if you’re a young girl that you can find a police car, fire truck, a periodic table or a dinosaur,” said state Assemblyman Evan Low (D-CA), who introduced the legislation, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-09/california-will-require-large-retailers-to-provide-gender-neutral-toy-sections">according</a> to the Los Angeles Times.  “And then similarly, if you’re a boy, if you’re more artistic and want to play with glitter, why not? Why should you feel the stigma of saying, ‘Oh, this should be shamed’ and going to a different location?”</p>
<p>Newsom, who recently won his recall election, did not release a statement on the bill after signing it, aside from announcing that it and dozens of other bills had been signed.</p>
<p>One notable law, <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1346">AB 1346</a>, will ban retailers from selling gas-powered lawnmowers as early as 2024 — even though, according to Andrew Bray of the National Association of Landscaping Professionals, the zero-emissions versions currently cost more than twice as much as conventional gas versions, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-09/california-moves-toward-ban-on-gas-lawnmowers-and-leaf-blowers">reports</a> The Los Angeles Times.</p>
<p>State Assemblyman Marc Berman (D-CA), who authored the legislation, has called the law &#8220;a pretty modest approach.&#8221;</p>
<p>“It’s amazing how people react when they learn how much this equipment pollutes, and how much smog forming and climate changing emissions that small off-road engine equipment creates,” said Berman, reports the L.A. Times. “This is a pretty modest approach to trying to limit the massive amounts of pollution that this equipment emits, not to mention the health impact on the workers who are using it constantly.”</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/californians-are-leaving-heres-where-theyre-going">Californians Are Leaving. Here’s Where They’re Going.</a></strong></p>
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