What does this bill REALLY do?
The fact that “it was supported by Equality California, a statewide LGBTQ advocacy group, and interACT, an intersex youth advocacy organization”, means that it’s suspect.
my guess is it has to do with people born with both genitalia - hermaphrodites. Usually someone makes a determination as to which genitals are most potentially functional or they decide which sex to raise the infant as. I think leaving both there will only create more problems.
It worries me as well.
Maybe the ultimate goal is to take gender decisions away from parents altogether?
For example, what if the State decided your child is a girl, whether you like it or not?
Or later on, if your minor child expresses the desire to change gender, and the State agrees, you have to comply...
I had to read it a couple of times, too, to know what they were getting at.
Sounds like if a child is born with truly ambiguous genitalia, hermaphroditic, or even with some easily fixable kind of defect of the reproductive organs, he cannot get it fixed. Acknowledging a "penis," after all, would be "assigned a sex" without consent.