California bans non-essential state travel to five red states, increases total list to seventeen HotAir

In 2016, California lawmakers began this banning nonsense in order to send a message that they don t approve of legislation passed in a state s legislature. It must be a shock to Californians that many other states do not see the world as they do. These bans began over what California lawmakers call discriminatory laws against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. Bonta justifies the decision Make no mistake: We re in the midst of an unprecedented wave of bigotry and discrimination in this country and the State of California is not going to support it. Talk about hyperbole. That statement is absurd. Never have these groups of people been less discriminated against. Does he think this is the 1950s? In 2021, people are free to be, to paraphrase Marlo Thomas, and to blast states for passing legislation to protect women and girls is disingenuous. The rights of transgender women to compete in women s sports events, for example, should not override the rights of biological women. Every transgender woman who is allowed to compete in a competitive event denies a spot in that competition to a biological woman. Transgender men win the events because they are biologically different than women. This is science. Aren t we supposed to follow science?

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This is more inflammatorily phrased than I would put it, but it makes the point. I assume it applies to all UC employees? Including law professors? It says it’s just posturing, but posturing can easily become all too real as soon as some bureaucrat decides to crack down.