Discrimination: sex and gender: intimate spaces.
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Overview
This bill amends California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act to ensure equal access to accommodations in business establishments, specifically addressing intimate spaces like bathrooms and locker rooms. It mandates that these spaces be separated by sex, regardless of an individual’s gender identity or expression. The bill defines ‘intimate spaces’ broadly and allows for single-occupancy gender-neutral bathrooms, aiming to protect transgender and gender non-conforming individuals from discrimination.
Key provisions
- Defines ‘intimate spaces’ to include bathrooms, showers, changing rooms, locker rooms, and dressing rooms.
- Requires sex-separated intimate spaces, except for single-occupancy facilities.
- Allows for gender-neutral single-occupancy intimate bathrooms.
- Updates the definition of ‘sex’ to include an individual’s immutable biological sex (female or male) and gender identity.
- Includes gender expression as a protected characteristic.
- Clarifies that accommodations should be separated by sex, irrespective of gender identity or expression.
- Addresses the state’s interest in preventing discrimination and balancing rights.
- Makes related legislative findings and declarations.
Who is affected
- Businesses and establishments
- Transgender and gender non-conforming individuals
- Customers and patrons of businesses
- Individuals seeking privacy in intimate spaces
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