California stores with more than 500 employees will soon be fined for not having a "gender-neutral" toy section once a new state law kicks in Jan. 1. The bill, signed in 2021 by Democrat Gov.

Gavin Newsom on Oct. 9, 2021, requires these large retail department stores to provide a gender-neutral section for toys and other childcare items. The law does not outlaw traditional boys and ...

The bigger, far more appealing toy section is in the main part of the store, where shoppers can find aisle after aisle of toys, some “gendered” and others not. Clumsy way to nudge the toy ...

There, kids and adults were excited to see Geoffrey the giraffe, the toy store’s mascot, who hangs out now as a statue on a bench at the entrance to the section. Luke Herman, 17, told The Bee ...

Stores that don’t follow the law may initially ... we’re even having to extend that to the toy section,” Mr Keller told ABC7.