ALERT // CENSORSHIP BILLS
FORCED ‘LGBTQIA+’ BRAINWASHING
Summary: AB 1803 would require employers with 5 or more employees to add “anti-hate speech training” to existing sexual harassment courses. This would mean forcing “anti-hate training” of nearly all California employees, starting Jan. 1, 2028. Similarly, AB 1578 would force all state and local officials into “anti-hate speech training and education.”
Bill status: These unconstitutional bills that censor and brainwash are awaiting final votes in the Democrat-Party-controlled Legislature, and are expected to land on Gavin Newsom’s desk soon.
Take action: Tell Gov. Gavin Newsom to VETO AB 1803 and AB 1578
Phone: 916-445-2841 (Mon-Fri 9a-5p)
Web form: https://www.gov.ca.gov/contact
Please tell Newsom’s office: “I’m calling to urge the governor to veto the censorship bills AB 1803 and AB 1578. These unnecessary bills are against people’s consciences and against their free speech, and would burden thousands of employers and millions of employees. Please veto AB 1803 and AB 1578.”
More about AB 1803
From the bill text of AB 1803, as amended August 13, 2026: “Beginning January 1, 2028, an employer shall also include anti-hate speech training as a component of the training and education specified in paragraph (1). Anti-hate speech training shall provide supervisors and employees with practical guidance on recognizing, reporting, and confronting workplace speech that vilifies, humiliates, or incites hatred against people based on the protected characteristics listed in subdivision (a) of Section 12940.”
And what are the “protected characteristics” listed in Section 12940 of the California Government Code?
“…race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, reproductive health decisionmaking, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, or veteran or military status of any person…”
In sum, AB 1803 will violate the religious faith and free speech of every employee who does not support the “LGBTQIA+” agenda, pushing Section 12940’s sexual “characteristics” such as “gender, gender identity, gender expression” and “sexual orientation” upon employees being “trained.”
More about AB 1578
From the Legislative Counsel’s Digest of AB 1578, as amended August 21, 2026:
This bill would require, if a state agency provides any type of compensation, salary, or stipend to a state agency official of that agency, that all state agency officials of that agency receive training on responding to hate, as prescribed. The bill would specify that state agency officials include elected officials for that purpose. The bill would require at least one hour of training and education for a state agency official within the first 6 months of taking office or commencing employment, and every 2 years thereafter. The bill would authorize a state agency or an association of state agencies to offer one or more training courses, or sets of self-study materials with tests, to meet these requirements. The bill would authorize a state agency to develop its own training that meets the requirements or direct elected officials to complete a training developed by the department. The bill would require the department to develop or obtain an online training course on responding to hate and make the course available on its internet website.
Existing law requires local agency officials, as defined, to receive sexual harassment prevention training and education if the local agency provides any type of compensation, salary, or stipend to those officials. Existing law requires the training and education to include practical examples aimed at instructing the local agency official in the prevention of sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation.
This bill would additionally require, beginning on January 1, 2028, the above-described training and education to include for any elected local agency official, as a component of the training and education, anti-hate speech training, as described. The bill would authorize an elected local agency official to take a training developed for state agency officials pursuant to the bill to satisfy the anti-hate speech training requirement.
Dig deeper into these bad bills. Visit our Legislation Center for the section “Eliminating Free Speech.”