The bill was sponsored by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. "California’s sex offender registry continues to draw that distinction - an antiquated, outdated, leftover distinction - that somehow oral sex is worse than vaginal sex," Wiener said. Get breaking news alerts in the FOX 11 News app.
State Senator Scott Wiener, who presented the bill, said the existing law "disproportionately targets LGBT young people for mandatory sex offender registration since LGBT people usually cannot engage in vaginal intercourse." Other forms of intercourse such as oral and anal intercourse require sex offender registration.