Sacramento, California: California on Saturday becomes the first country to say a large department store must display products such as toys and toothbrushes in a gender neutral way, victory for LGBT supporters who say the pink and blue traditional marketing methods to adjust the gender stereotypes .
The new law, signed by Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, does not prohibit parts of traditional boys and girls at the Department Store.
Instead, it is said that large stores must also have a gender neutral part to display “ the selection of “items” regardless of whether they have been marketed traditionally for girls or for boys.
“It does not include clothes.
The law only applies to toys and” childcare goods, “which includes hygiene and teeth products.
And that only applies to shops with at least 500 employees, which means small businesses are excluded.
Exemblyman Evan Low , a Democrat from San Jose who wrote the bill, said he “but very grateful news signed this year’s bill – the third time the Democrats in the legislature of the state have tried to pass this law, with a similar bill failing in 2019 and 2020.
Low said he was inspired By the women’s 10-year-old daughter of one of her staff, who asked her mother why certain items in the store were “off the limit” for her because she was a girl.
“We must stop matigatizing what can be accepted for certain sexes and let children become children, ” said low.
‘` My hope is that this bill encourages more business in California and the US to avoid strengthening dangerous stereotypes and worn.’ ‘While California is the first country to need this, some large department stores have changed the way they display their products.
The target of Corp, with 1,915 stores throughout the United States, announced in 2015 it will stop using several gender-based signs in stores.
The law was opposed by several republicans and several conservative groups, who argue that the government should not tell parents how to shop for their children.