Male or female - you decide

This story is so odd that you may assume that I am making it up. I am afraid not, this story is weird but true.


Take a look here and here and at the actual text of the bill here.


In brief, the California Senate have passed a bill that ends "sex" being defined as "the biological condition or quality of being a male or female human being." and refines the term "gender" for all schoolchildren by adding this "'Gender' means sex, and includes a person's gender identity and gender related appearance and behavior whether or not stereotypically associated with the person's assigned sex at birth." In other words gender has been redefined to be that which you choose to be regardless of your anatomical make-up.

This bill also uses this redefinition of gender to forbid educators from discriminating against any individual employee, student or other person based upon that individual's unspoken claim of being male or female, regardless of his or her actual sex.

As a result of this bill the Los Angeles Unified School District has already adopted policies allowing boys to use girls' restrooms and locker rooms and of course vice versa. Also it even tells teachers they need to refer to students using the student's preferred pronoun, and of course, it prohibits the teachers from disclosing a student's chosen gender to the student's parents.



Now part of me, and I won't say which part, thinks that if I was a 14 year old NotaSheep again, then I might very well prefer to shower in the girls' locker room rather than the boys. Is this what the legislators envisaged? If not, what were they thinking about?