A new California bill plans to separate “intimate spaces” based on “sex, irrespective of gender identity or gender expression .” The proposal, known as AB 1998, would define “sex” in state law as biological and immutable — male or female — and require private facilities such as bathrooms, locker rooms, dressing rooms and showers to be separated accordingly in spaces where individuals typically undress or expect privacy from the opposite sex, according to the bill. The bill is authored by