The stores could maintain separate sections for toys targeted to each gender, but only if they added a gender-neutral section as well. To be clear, it’s a great idea for stores to create toy sections where boys don’t feel odd for choosing a baby doll and girls feel welcome to take home a toy truck. In catalogs of educational toys, girls are generally pictured with jewelry-making kits while boys are shown with construction sets and science kits, a disappointing throwback. How private companies choose to arrange a display of toys or any other products is simply not government business. The state also safeguards the civil rights of transgender people by ensuring their right to use the restroom of the sex with which they identify, including in private stores and restaurants.

Source: Los Angeles Times September 15, 2021 20:26 UTC