California retailers will soon face $500 fines for refusing to cooperate with the state’s ‘Gender-Neutral Toy Section’ mandates.
From the NY POST:
Major retailers in California are just weeks away from having to create gender neutral toy sections for children or risk being fined up to $500 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 a first violation, and a $500 fine for any subsequent violations.