States Are Banning Drag (And Trans People???) 

Also this doesnt account for bio-queens/kings (people who perform drag in their own assigned at birth gender). You could have intensely provactive stuff passing through the net just because they desperately hate trans people

The irony is I dressed up as a very feminine drag style wild west sheriff for Halloween last year. And yep I wore heels, tall black high-heeled cowboy boots with glitzy metal sequins which made super loud "thuh-thunk! Jingle" noises with every step.

you'll never catch me alive, sheriff! ... okay maybe you will because running in high heels is bloody hard

Fun fact: did you know high heels were first invented in 10th century as men's shoes? And were a symbol of masculinity and military power up till the 17th century

The UK is trembling in their Definitely Cisgender Boots with their dumbass gender card BS

Then lock me up because I wear men's shoes because my feet are too big for women's. I swear, this country has gone to hell. What is wrong with just keeping our noses on our own face and treating others the way you want to be treated and if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything!

@@shannonsimoneau4824 If they figure out some clothes are sold and branded as unisex they will explode 💥

Land of the free but the f is silent

@@queerantine69 More like the R

@@shannonsimoneau4824 The reality of the world and the fact that people have different opinions to you scares some people with a delusional view of reality where everything and everyone must comply with their interpretation of bits of text written anywhere from 2500 to 100 years ago by people who couldn't smelt iron.

This is my home state, and we had a couple of openly gay trans boys in my old neighborhood, Alex and Shadow I believe, only a few years younger than me. I fear one day they'll get caught while walking to the store, or riding their bikes to school. I also fear of myself, my previous coworker who was a trans man, and for my friend who is nonbinary and dresses like an 80s glam rocker on their days off from work. This bill awfully reminds me of anti trans bills from the years of Stonewall, where one couldn't wear more than 1 article of clothing from the "opposite sex". Kinda weird history is repeating itself, I hope to get my claws on some T to get myself looking like Orlanda Bloom in 2004 soon enough.

What even are feminine or masculine clothes and makeup? If they're gonna say glittery or colorful makeup is feminine, I wanna ask how that's related to the chromosomes they're always so damn concerned about. The sheep that gave you the wool used to make the shirt your wearing right now? I can guarantee it had a sex, and it might not have been the same sex as you. I swear, these people will give any excuse to hate people who are different. This is the stupidest shit I've seen in a while.

this doesn’t even just hurt trans people and people who do drag; this would also hurt cis women who just prefer to present masculine, and vice versa. it’s dumb as hell, honestly.

@@novelle.27 Yeah, but let's be honest, this'll be selectively enforced and excuses will be made to deny it

@@captaincaspian42 I live here too and it SUCKS. I WAS planning on going to Stacy’s or Boycott on Melrose sometime soon, but uh…that’s out the window I guess. It’s always been this way. I went to fucking Queen Creek High School, and I’m gay, and so were all my friends that went. It. Was. Hell. This place is one of the most conservative hellholes I’ve ever been in.

A Metal band would be freaking barred from performing with this logic. A bunch of men with long hair.... it's that stupid!

@@James.99 If it angers the wrong right wing / creationist politician = we can't rule anything out.

@@entertainmenthell2396 Oh yeah, that's exactly what right wing creationists like..."devil" music

I mean, did you know who also wore Frills, bows and long hair? That's right, Mozart and Beethoven! It's official, they are drag queens from now on.

@@cloud_catus8500 And our founding fathers...

It's all "it's illegal to dress in a way that doesn't broadcast to everyone what your genitals are like." Worse, "you must broadcast what your genitals were like as a baby, including after the mandatory non-consensual genital surgery if your baby genitals weren't conformist enough." I'd say that there's probably a way it could be made more creepy and invasive, but the 'phobes might take that as a challenge.

Yeah using one's outfit to tell everyone about one's genitals is creepy and gross af, and feeling entitled to know that information about strangers to the point of trying to make it legally enforced is even worse

As an intersex person, parental units did "choose" what gender they wanted. Now at age 41 said parental units have disowned this intersex person because gender expression isn't the gender they wanted anymore. Can't wait for a day when we stop dehumanizing people in America. It would be nice to not have to worry about being shot, spit on, verbally abused, or physically assaulted just going to get a pizza in this country. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness need not apply if your not a white cis male. Thanks America.

Someone should start selling shirts: "I'm legally obligated to inform you that my genitals looked like this at birth"

@@melineeluna but then you get all offended if someone feels deceived and rejects you after seeing your genitals do not match your advertise and does not follow your delusion

Please I’m begging. It’s not like I can afford to live anyway!

"You're selling your labour for money? Don't you make that with your body? And your body has sex organs? That's sex work; not allowed."

But we’ll still have to work to pay bills, and then we’ll be branded as criminals, and it’ll be “our fault”

@@DeathnoteBB this bill effectively classifies drag (and being trans) as sex work *even if you're not taking any money*

It's so wild to me that, as he said in the video, these bills aim to label Jinkx Monsoon doing showtunes as sex work, meanwhile there are dudes who take their kids to Hooters and tell their preteen sons they think the waitress likes them.

It's not really. It's being used as a cover for what it is -- extreme bigotry. They're building up this fake image of drag performances and shows being inherently sexual places where kids are being brought en masse for the purpose of "grooming" (none of which is true of course), the intent of which is simply to outlaw being trans. There is no way you can read "performing a gender different from one assigned at birth" that only applies to drag performers and does not also apply to trans folk, or even apply to other gender non-conforming queer people that may not necessarily identify as trans.

@@Cobalt985 To be fair, drag as it is, should have never been brought to schools.. I'm not sure to how many drag shows you went, but seeing both Jinkx and William sucking random people's dicks and rating them on stage in the largest gay club in London (so not really an obscure or unknown event) was enough for me to know that drag is far from something that should be put in school. In it's essence it is sexualized evne though there are cases, where the drag queens might do a more conventional gig where they are just singing.. but this is on a level of striptease and poledancing... it can be art, but still perceived in a specific way.

@@Cobalt985 Yep, they could get to calling anything a "performance". it would be hard to prove that it's not, and even harder when no one will have your back against the corrupt.

@@StudlyFudd13 yep, the definition they gave for what a performance is was almost as vauge as what a drag performer is on purpose

It’s a moral panic being used as a cudgel against LGTBQ people

NOOOOO NOT THE BIBLICALLY ACCURATE SHAKESPEARE

In these states are kids no longer allowed to watch Mrs. Doubtfire??

@@user-th1pv6ks5o and most of Monty python.

What about Tyler Perry's Madea movies??

In the musical Chicago, the reporter woman is traditionally played by a man in drag. Guess that show is out.

I wish them the best of luck!

Kids are discriminating as much as they preach "inclusivity"

@@L0rdOfThePies thank you 😁

Girlfriend. Your daughter's boyfriend is a gay female. Maybe be pissed at the homophobia instead of supporting medicalized conversion. God doesn't make mistakes, "born in the wrong body" is blasphemy.

@@j.t.1086 God does make mistakes, He made you. Not to mention that nobody cares about your cult.

Literal short kings lmao

High heeled shoes were considered healthy for your feet for a very long time.

Great I can’t wait until all men are required to wear heals again

So does that mean that by men abandoning high heels and giving them to women, we're actively destroying the patriarchy?

They were still wearing them in the 70's. I take every opportunity to tease my dad after I saw a picture of him in stack shoes. He looked like the Isley Brothers 🤣

I’m trans and I do music too. So much for land of the free. It’s sad when they’re trying to make us silenced and segregate us.

🤣🤣🤣

You sure it's only the conservatives now? You haven't noticed the zeitgeist shift? I'd get out if you still think that way even if you don't understand why.

@@mobilevideoviewer2610 Yes, it's the conservatives who lead the aggressive efforts of criminalization and stochastic terrorism. The "centrists" who insist that we must always split the difference between humanity and violent authoritarianism (and then split that difference) are conservatives pretending not to be. There are a few people who take conservative lies about LGBTQ people and amplify them while claiming to be progressive -- but uncritically repeating lies that were spread for the sake of promoting violent conservative doctrines can't really be called non-conservative behavior in any real sense.

if you not come to "perform" , no one would know who you are anyway, neither people of that states would care. San Francisco, LA your destination.

Oh, it goes back a lot further than Shakespeare (1564-1616CE), in ancient Samaria (3,000-4,000BCE) there were a group of priests called the gala, some of whom were men who adopted female names and wore female clothing. These gala would preform songs and dances at the temples.

Reality didn't exist before these people were born, and their worldview is the only correct one. They're absolutely insane, and none of them should have any political power or social influence.

Adding that in Greek and Roman antiquity drag was also very much a thing as women were not allowed to perform in plays but ofc there were women roles there

I've never seen a Peter Pan that wasn't a teen or young adult women ... Except maybe play that goes wrong

That would require them to know history, Shakespeare and theater so absolutely not…just like how they legislate medical care with zero medical knowledge.

Stop & Frisk, but now in addition to race, if you don't look or dress cis enough, you get frisked. Yeah.

Unfortunately, that's not that out of the question given the fact that the three-article rule already existed and was enforced back in the 40s-60s. Yet the three-article rule didn't have direct code written about it and was instead a social understanding that police officers could arrest folks for homosexuality if the person was not following it. Even with arrests not being extremely common under that concept, the use of it to humiliate/harass people via strip searches and the safety the idea provided to inflict violence on queer people was very real. These bills feel like they're trying to bring that idea back but make it the literal law of the land. If these bills are passed, they will be enforced whether it be through actual "investigations" and arrests or simply by using them as shields to hide behind when enacting violence and oppression.

@@GlennBRust There's so much about this "pervert" "groomer" wave of hate that just sounds like yesterday. I mean this method of invalidating your political rivals by alleging sexual depravity goes as far back as human history - stuff is biblical. This level of push back, of having to make their unspoken bigotry into public law, it speaks of their desperation. It gives us an opportunity to confront that hatred publicly too, push some people off their fences.

@@WelfareChrist Absolutely! Each time this tactic resurfaces we just need to make that push faster and stronger so the fewest possible innocent people get hurt in the process.

@@GlennBRust Honestly what I think this is, is the symptoms of a dying generation. These corrupt pieces of garbage know they are at the end of their lives. They look around and see young people being accepting and panic. They are not long for the world so they are working overtime to tear down every single thing that they hate in a mad dash before they kick the bucket. We are heading toward a better time. This is the storm before that. We're gonna have years of undoing all of this shit down the road, but I believe that it's on the horizon.

Conservatives have always feared and hated art so this tracks

@@gothgammy666 Beat me to this comment.

What is the difference between a drag show and a minstrel show? Both shows are meant to make fun of groups of people based on negative stereotypes. For example, most drag queens embody the stereotype of the seductress which promotes the idea all women are sluts. This in turn has encouraged many men to be sexually aggressive. As someone who is afab themselves, this causes problems for people who are afab. And no, this does not apply to transgender people. It would require that that: 1. You can't find a half-decent lawyer to find a loophole in the garbled mess of the first paragraph. I know money is often tight for transgender people but the government is required by the Constitution to give a defendant a lawyer if the defendant can not afford one. At that point, the defendant can direct their lawyer to the first paragraph. 2. It requires an audience that is there for the purpose of being entertained. So, humming in the car or singing in the shower would not count as the person is not doing so to entertain an audience. 3. It must be done to cause sexual arousal which would exclude almost all karaoke singers. Unless you are well-known for your vocal skills, you are not sexually arousing anybody. 4. This video is clickbait. Note how many times he says conservatives/Republicans (the fact that he uses those words interchangeably shows that he doesn't know what those words mean and is just looking to sow division). Beware of opinion pieces like this from any political party and be willing to hear the whole story. That's all I have to say for now.

5. I forgot. It only applies to performers doing a performance so those complaining that this law bans them from singing/humming to themselves are implying that their gender identity/expression is just a performance... Yikes. Needless to say you are not going to get any respect from others with freudian slips like that. That is like Mulhaney saying "Day One" of being a "girl" occurred as an adult with too much makeup and a slutty outfit on in front of a camera. Mulhaney then went on to complain that woman were too emotional. Now Mulhaney is held up as the pinnacle transgender womanhood by conservative RU-vid channels. Don't be a Mulhaney.

@@thetruthseeker4771 There's a big difference between a drag show and a minstrel show. Drag shows and crossdressing as a whole, for most people who do it, is expressing their feminine side. Yes, this often comes with a persona they play, but so does pretty much every other form of performance. Comedians will put on an exaggerated persona, youtubers will do the same, actors, and don't forget pageants. Minstrel shows were done not out of any relatability to POC but out of hatred and bigotry. 1: You shouldn't have to find a lawyer for a law inherently targeted at queer people. The law shouldn't even exist to begin with. Not to mention, just because you're assigned a lawyer, doesn't mean they're a good lawyer. 2: Except an audience is defined as "2 or more people," and it doesn't matter if it's paid or free. This means if, say, a small group of friends got together for a picnic and shared some poetry with one another, and one of them was trans or crossdressing, they would be breaking the law. Public space. Audience of 2 or more people. 3: Have you heard of the "trans panic" defense? Basically when someone is so startled when they learn someone's trans (usually in a sexual or romantic setting) they hurt and/or kill the trans person. I imagine the same leaps in logic would be made in the case of this bill. Someone gets aroused or attracted to a person (not because the performance is sexual, just because of how the person looks) and gets pissed and insecure about it. Not to mention plenty of people think just any man in a dress (no matter how much or little it covers) is inherently sexual. 4: No, you're just underestimating or brushing off the likelihood this law can and will be abused. And the fact that it's a stupid law to begin with. Wouldn't any public indecency law in place already cover this? 5: No. Because this law defines drag based in how you dress vs your assigned sex. It's not people implying their gender identity as a performance, it's pointing out that this law WOULD define their gender identity/expression as a performance in a lot of settings, even without them actually being in drag, and even though gender identity is NOT a performance. This law does not go by "clothes/expression opposite to your GENDER IDENTITY" it defines drag as wearing clothes opposite to your assigned sex. This means that any trans person who wears clothing matching their GENDER would be considered dressing in drag. It never says the focus of the performance has to be the drag, but simply that anyone "dressed in drag" as defined by that law, and is also performing, is putting on a drag performance.

well according to the perverts in office, you're going to sexy jail, mis edit: thought ur username said miss but its mis

Yes

Yep, while these bills are clearly aimed at hurting trans people, they are so broadly and badly written that they could be used to harass an AFAB person wearing pants, or an AMAB person wearing nail polish, or something pink, or anything else conveniently deemed too feminine.

Are stores going to stop labeling relaxed jeans and shirts as "boyfriend jeans" and" boyfriend shirts" to avoid these laws cutting their profits??

Time to maliciously comply - you can bet there are Republican legislators who also do this. Technically singing is just making musical sounds, which *is* normal speech as well. When they're screeching at some rally and happen to wear slightly non-conforming clothes? Or as you said, a priest. Sue them for drag performances on public spaces!

🫦what kind of sandals?

@@ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos ah i prefer to wear [REDACTED FOR EXPLICIT CONTENT BY RU-vid]

@@yellowbutterfly6796 😫

You monster.

Soon dressing up as anything other then boring stereotypes will be illegal.

@@neon17.08 it'll look like one of those depressing Christian schools with all the same uniforms :(

@@JosilyneTwigg All white, no other colours allowed, because thats gay. Idk why but I swear they'll start assuming that.

@@neon17.08 No other colours of skin either. The christian "love" group won't stop at us. They'll go for the rest of the minorities right after. it's divide and conquer.

Hell, technically it'd even just stop a girl from wearing her boyfriends hoodie while singing karaoke.

One of my first thoughts was "yo id still be able to do drag in those states" so as long as i stay in drag they cant arrest me (im transmasc)

Yes and not only singing. Also dancing, reading, comedy etc etc. Pretty much any kind of art performance. And with that strange wording, not only drag and trans but all kinds of queer folk. I am glad I am not living anywhere near the US!

I'm sure they will extend the definition too. Soon trans people won't be allowed to speak at public events, they will try to silence them forever

@@joshuanorman2 Exactly, It just feels like a gateway to oppress all types of queerness from media. Think about the UKs Section 28 type thing. That was only in 2003 so not out of my lifetime. Its happened before it can happen again. Once there is the oppression of queer voices then comes the outright oppression of said queer voices right to exist.

@joshuanorman2509 if they get too ambitious in what they lump in with "performance", the laws will be struck for vagueness

holy shit.. i didn't even consider that?!!!

Come to Germany. I left BC 4 years ago for a master's degree and don't plan on coming back. Something is getting twisted in North America and not to sound like a pearl clutcher, I believe the radicalization on the internet is the main culprit. People aren't getting real information. It's all propaganda tailored to special interests (not that the news was ever wholly accurate before).

A few happened here in Ontario as well. I was flabbergasted to see it.

I'm surprised I haven't heard of anything in Alberta... but since a significant amount of news here is highly Conservative.... I don't look at it anymore. Too depressing.

Columbus Ohio also had protesters, those proud boys even came to a child's event packing Guns Asalt Riffles and everything u could emagine.

Yep. Also Canadian -- Albertan in particular. I'm not stoked. I'm ready to fight for my queer comrades though.

Makeup and high heels were originally for men too. So, if they want to get technical about it. Every female that wears pants, makeup, and heels are crossdressers.

Yeah, it's completely unenforceable. Isn't gonna stop bigots from trying unfortunately.

They're not poorly thought out, entrenched conservative norms for gender is literally the point so yes they absolutely want cis women to be forced out of pants and into dresses only

And they would criminalize a man wearing heels, despite heels originally being made for men 👀 I genuinely cannot comprehend the mental gymnastics these fuckos do everyday.

The point is to be vague so they can use for whatever they want.

Not even just highschool plays, a lot of stage plays have people playing the roles of other genders.

Yeah, most non professional plays I've been to have had at least a few gender swapped characters (well, at least the plays I already had some idea of the story). Especially for open community theater, your actors are whoever shows up. You have eight boy characters in the play and six boys? Two girls are playing boys. Hell one of the best community theater plays I've been to gender swapped all the main characters.

Oh shit. WV was the only one I didn't look up. It sounds really bad.

I also just had another disturbing realization. This could target people from foreign countries and mix with xenophobia as well. A man could wear something that IS traditional male attire from his culture, but could be considered "a dress" in the US (such as an Indian man wearing a kurta) and make him get in legal trouble simply for cultural differences.

They want to say that selecting your own gender is a mental health problem, when there are people out there assaulting people because of the clothes they wear. What ever happened to "as long as it's not hurting anyone". I think that idea has become skewed into "It's ok to hurt people because ____insert whatever extreme ideology you have here____"

Just make sure you have armed security, even if that security is just friend groups with guns. Remember you are dealing with enraged sociopaths

@@ghostofsilence2697 I get it, but I don't want to have to be armed to do drag. Consider it a velvet protest.

@@HazelwithaZ it's not about want anymore its about necessity. These psychopaths WANT to kill you. They want you and everyone like you dead. How many mass shootings, bomb threats, actual bombings, arson cases, assaults, raids, etc do we need to have before we get the picture that we need more than just words to stand up against this threat?. I don't like it either, I hate guns. But I don't know if we have the luxury of setting that option aside anymore. I don't say this to seem mean or snarky. If it comes across that way I apologize, but please don't underestimate their level of blind hatred. Be safe. That's all I ask... At the very least, have a few medics on standby

If you ever wanted to try drag, go right ahead. Just try not to perform in front of children please? I know you guys like the children but please stop.

@@sabersin7694 there's no data to back up your feelings, snowflake

Yeah, I can imagine they'd easily stretch to seeing any gender differences as "performative".

So this is just recreating the gender laws of a century ago. It used to be common for the police to harass the gay community using the Masquerade laws that were passed in the 19th century.

Your first paragraph is exactly how I interpreted this, too. I'd be freaked out by crap like this anyway, but one of my grown kids is a trans enby! I go round and round sometimes between shock, fear and rage that some people think that some other people shouldn't be allowed to just...be. Please forgive my motherly rant. Be safe out there, dear bean. 🙏❤🏳‍⚧

I dont like the term "performance" for that exact same reason. Even if i was the only human to exist i would still be me

It goes both ways though, gender conforming cisgender people choose to perform gender signifiers associated with their assigned gender because that is how they wish to be perceived. When you say a doctor performs surgery you don't mean that they pretend to do surgery in front of an audience, you just mean they do a surgery, that's kind of what performing gender is about. It's not a costume you put on to pretend, but it is a social performance in the sense that you choose various characteristics and styles and traits to show to others that present you in the way you wish to be viewed, which is typically the way you view yourself but not always, eg. a closeted trans person presenting as their assigned gender. Even alone you are performing for an audience, that audience is yourself and all of the socialisation you've absorbed, all the social rules and cultural associations and visual language and the meanings of all of the symbols and signifiers, if you genuinely never saw another soul again then eventually that visual communication would lose against practicality, because without other people reinforcing those rules and symbols they would cease to mean anything to you. You would no longer see wearing x article of clothing as conflicting with your gender identity because without anyone around to reinforce those gender roles, it wouldn't. It's just fabric, it keeps the sun off you and helps you stay cool or warm depending on the weather, maybe you enjoy looking at the pattern, it wouldn't matter what gender it was originally meant for because if you were the only human only your gender would even exist. All that would matter would be how the clothing served you. The reason performing your gender makes you comfortable is because it communicates physically what you know about yourself internally, it allows people to see who you are on a surface level and that reinforces your understanding of yourself, you don't feel inadequate or like you need to change because who you see looking at you from the mirror is a person who looks like all the things that you are, and that's incredibly validating. In a different culture though you would be using different signifiers to present the same facts about yourself, you only like the ones you use because they're what you grew up with. It's like it's your first language almost, only it's visual and behavioural, rather than verbal. I don't mean that you grew up presenting with the same signifiers that you currently use, to be clear, I mean you grew up with the "language" they belong to, kind of like how you know the words that apply to all genders even though most people only identify as one. You knew what those symbols meant before you use them, you chose them for their meaning.

Imagine thinking the law applies to conservative law makers

"That law won't stop me, becaus either can't read!" These are the same people who think the Constitution doesn't have pronouns. The first word of the Preamble is a pronoun.

By the Supreme Court we have currently? (if it got that high the federal courts can knock laws down as well, but typically not without consequence) Probably not.

@ameliasellers6396 this, unfortunately. They are openly christofascist idealogues

You think they care about the 1st amendment? They sure don't care about the establishment clause.

Nobody want's to ban all politicians with me. They are all like this. Dems just use us for votes. They are all the puppets of the super rich.

time and time again it turns out they want small government for themselves and heavy government for minorities

Wait this was a thing for real? In the USA? The land with the most freedom? Not even China had those xD

@@onlyfoes yes that was a thing. Actually it used to be illegal for woman to wear pants until like the 20s lol

Yes.

Reminds me of Germany after the First World War

This country has always been shit. Slavery is still legal in the form of prison slavery, the way cops kill torture, rape, and arrest, innocent people, this country has never been free

@@mr.x2567 same here. I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years, possibly even less, that another holocaust happens but right here in the US

@@mr.x2567 Yeah, an empire in decline.

I'm not intersex but I assumed that much, (I am nonbinary), I have a feeling that this bill would force intersex people to become more binary. None of us will have a choice to be who we are.

Which is weird that they would give any of you a hard time. In their eyes it should be "Well, God made 'em that way. Who am I to say a damn thing about it?" I guess it's just "hate anything that doesn't fit in these two boxes" for them.

As some one with a feminine body and underdeveloped male genitalia, AMAB now identifying as female, they'd have a hecking field day judging what im allowed to wear and what not. Maybe I could argue that my skirts are tartans? 🤔

@@petrichor3797 This has made me also think that this might not just be an attack on trans people, it also prevents people from wearing their cultural outfits. Republican Americans are just really stupid in general, they lack critical thinking skills and immediately assume that they're smart ones.

@@marklucas3140 oh no, they actually say that intersex people are "from the devil". And yes, I was literally told that, by many believers.

You'd be a good parent than :)

Reasonable.

They'd have personal responsibilities and morals, how horrible

Im gay catholic and somewhat conservative.

But you don't so leave everyone else's children alone

☝🏻

that's what i was thinking

Yep, a ten year old trans girl puts on a play for her parents and grandparents? Whelp, she's now a sex performer and shouldn't be allowed near any children. Oh wait, she's a child, well, I guess she's not allowed to go near...herself???? The stupidity of bills like this is flabbergasting.

Possibly.

I'm a musician who happens to be trans as well. Literally doing my job in these places would likely be illegal as well. Especially since I also teach music to both adults and children.

Are you a drag queen? Are you performing in front of children? If yes, then expect the law to be at your door step any minute.

@Saber Sin No, and no. I'm trans and just myself? I'm also a piano/vocal coach and a musician.

Trans male queens and trans female kings as well, from the wording given o:

How much you wanna bet they wouldn’t go after Tyler Perry or other big name celebrities.

That kind of movies are cancelled anyway. You don't play a gay, a woman or a retard unless its on your birth certificate. That would be appropriating and taking away work from real gays, real women and real retards.

They're probably going to only enforce it selectively, just enough to damage political rivals or just enough to have a chilling effect on access to necessary things for trans people.

The systems won't crash, unfortunately. The U.S. "justice" system has no qualms about tossing people who don't deserve it in prison.

@@ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos Yep and not releasing them when those same laws are overturned. PS: The guy who was in for 20 years for pot and then when he got out finally he found out that it had been legal for years now. Did they release him after the made it legal? Nah...they just let him rot some more.

@@StudlyFudd13that’s… horrifying.

May you be well, safe and find an inner circle of peeps who love and honor you for exactly who you are🙏🏼

I know it's a typo, but I want a career in the arse... 😁

You might like to check your post for typos/autocorrect. I'm sure you mean "career in the arts", yes? 😉

@@HazelwithaZ goddammit. Fucking speech-to-text ruined me again.

I think The Bill means they can't perform infront of minors (people under 18 ).

Dancing is for people who are free.

What about a girl wearing her boyfriends hoodie? That's technically wearing clothing of the opposite gender, but I don't think anyone, other than a few cold boyfriends maybe, have ever had a problem with that.

@@zoeybourke9617 Well, since they love emphasising colour as well, if the hoodie is black and blue? Straight to jail, apparently! (And if the boyfriend ever wants to wear the fuzzy pink pullover for warmth, they can share the jail cell, I guess.)

Yeah, and even traditional depictions have Jesus in a shift-dress-like garment. Is that going to be banned?

Tbh saying "The right is banning Shakespeare!!!" Might be a good way to combat this

@@annawesometheflameingpikac3688 they could also be banning some church services... A priest singing in a cassock/clerical robe is a man doing a musical performance in a dress, yes? Church is now an adult venue, not fit for children.

@@MsFitz134 not to mention my church has had Christmas pageants where girls portrayed say Joseph, or the Angel Gabriel, or a shepherd which was a male-only feild at the time.

This would potentially also classify Monty Python as pornography.

@@ForsakenDAemon it's what they would have wanted

I still use nude models to practice figure and anatomy sketches. It's online and for free too. It's got options for nude and clothed models.

Tbf i'm sure these people are solidly anti-Chinese-opera

Conservatives don't give one shit about other cultures. Of course Chinese operas will be gone. They are not white christian men. That's all conservatives care about. Humping their white washed god while screaming burn the gays.

Yep, and I know someone who was still a minor when they started figure drawing classes. (it was at university, September birthday) And unsurprisingly nothing happened aside from a bunch of drawing.

Exactly what this is. It's not just a simple ban on drag (which is also stupid and awful) it's disguised to ban trans people.

Yeah, like what constitutes a performance? Does humming along to the music the store is playing count? Doing a happy dance because your favorite snack is finally back in stock? Skipping down the sidewalk because skipping is fun? Dancing with your kid at the playground? Ugh.

We're going to find "Force all these lazy Zillenials back to work" in the fine print of some of these bills. You know how politicians love to multi-task with these laws.

But they clearly love their 2nd amendment so much. I don't think they know their amendments.

Somehow, I'm sure the christofascist "justices" will find a way to forget about that silly little thing

as a us citizen I should exercise my 2nd amendment...

@@fancydeer you're not necessarily wrong...

Similar bills existed in the past, were used to criminalise queer people, and were not struck down on constitutional grounds. One such law in NYC was only repealed in 2008. There is absolutely no reason to believe that they will be struck down if the bills pass.

Are you even an actor?

Ive heard Mcauley culkin had a lot of fun in Neverland. Just hanging around bubbles and riding carousels and eating ice cream.

Honestly what I think this is, is the symptoms of a dying generation. These corrupt pieces of garbage know they are at the end of their lives. They look around and see young people being accepting and panic. They are not long for the world so they are working overtime to tear down every single thing that they hate in a mad dash before they kick the bucket. We are heading toward a better time. This is the storm before that. We're gonna have years of undoing all of this shit down the road, but I believe that it's on the horizon.

Its a threat to them and we are a threat to them because individual thought and expression destroys their theocratic oppression agenda . we cant be manipulated by them so we become public enemy number one . they will fail

I just walk around with nail polish on and a pride shirt over here in Georiga and I am a straight white male, my little way of showing these people you can't keep people down.

What needs to happen is something that brings Marie Antoinette to mind.

Your grandmother sounds like an absolutely wonderful person. More people like her are needed in this world.

I love your granny! Having people like her by our sides is what will keep our cause alive.

You grade valuable experiences on an entirely different scale than me.

@@spiralmoment this just in. different people hold different values. more at 11.

Conservatives: "Drag is bad for our kids" "Drag is grooming" Also conservatives: "I see nothing wrong with this(ru-vid.comN4p4Cl3F5nY)"

I say "Live to Prove You Can" These horrible people who urinate on our constitution would love it if we all died. Why give them the satisfaction?

Do not come out if it is unsafe. Especially in a state like Texas. Do what you can to stay alive and find a home in a different state. You can start over. And when your family asks you why you moved so far away, explain to them in no uncertain terms that the state you used to live in decided to make it illegal for you to exist. Your parents will likely leave the state as well to be with you (assuming they are the accepting sort). There's always another way out. Just please don't give up.

CJ, are you in a large city? Do not go around telling people about it if you are in a small town. Even trusted friends might mention it in passing to someone else. You'll be just fine in a place like Austin or Dallas. I have to tell you, the comment about drinking yourself to death is definitely a Texan thing to say. Just drink yourself to Austin.

I'm In small town Texas [ftm] and I really really understand the fear. Our government is against us and they wish to kill us. But your trans brothers sisters and siblings will fight for you.

I hope that you can find some mental health support from a therapist or counselor who understands you. It’s so important for trans people, so you have hope and a better vision for your future 🙏🏼

Considering that the Supreme Court justices got all of their addresses leaked when Roe V Wade got overturned, I'd say give it a week and we'll see what happens

They usually take their bribes in dollars not lead.

Gary Stubblefield, Tyler Dees, Blake Johnson, Alan Clark are senators openly pushing the bill for Arkansas.

Seems like there have been some replies removed. I hope that YT isn't protecting these doofus lawmakers.

Jack Johnson, William Lamberth are pushing a bill in Tennessee.

Only for you confused people

@Justin Barker so why is it okay for a cis person to lip-sync, sing or dance in public but not a trans person?

@@justinbarker3429 nope, anyone

@@justinbarker3429 no one is confused dude

@@justinbarker3429 You're the only one confused.

Be at LR at the capitol at 3 today, WE NEED EVERYONR WATCHING

Reminder to look at other countries for examples of protests. France can get pretty creative if you know what I mean 😉 Joking aside, we need to get the attention of everyone. And there are a lot of tactics that help with that. I remember one of my friends French college professors said the students should just create fake traffic back when their college was protesting really bad budget cuts from the government for the 100th time. At some point we gotta put our foot down and say enough is enough and show them what real protests can be.

Funny how y'all will say that you don't care about what people think about you, yet you will never miss a single pride march advocating for the rights of your people, because you care a LOT about what people think about you.

@@sabersin7694 pride marches are less "caring about what people think" and more "stop killing us" with community building thrown in.

Thank you for noticing!

My wife almost fell over laughing when I described the hot singles ad.

Were they actually or are you assuming. I wouldn't go as far as accusing someone just because they got that onsie they may have thought it was funny or a joke or something.

"lady killer" "hide your daughter" Ect. Ect.

​@@PrincessofKeys to quote the pearl cluchers "okay but think of the children!"

You can't prove it. It just needs to seem like ur doing drag and you will be charged

Stick to near Chicago or the popular Illinois College areas for mass acceptance. Some of it isn't as "friendly" but Illinois is nowhere near the backward states, and I hope it never becomes so. There is some decent quiet country property out this way. Good Luck Friend!

There are small clusters of church folk here and there, but they are not psycho murderers. Moving near STL in IL would keep you closer to your friends in case you need to do a rescue mission. I have a friend of a friend that lives in Rolla that's trans. I am just across the river from STL. Southern Illinois isn't as bad as Chicagoans make it out to be. We aren't all hicks. I have a cousin that moved to Chicago for twenty years and became a douchebag, though. Sexualized my 15yo 2nd cousin and made her feel uncomfortable at Christmas dinner. I actually had to tell him to shut up or get out of my house.

They would be just as fake offended

Yep.

I hope so We need another reset for America

​@@JosilyneTwigg cycle back to women being second class and black people being objects, natives being pushed aside for the great white take over... I see why Trump was loved... Yikes

They literally played their hand twice in the last few years - they were caught saying "covid will kill more Democrats" and... oops, nope, they killed hundreds of thousands of their own already-aging voter base. And then they tried to overthrow a democratic election - and failed. Which coming from the "Don't Tread On Me, Love It Or Leave It, "I'll Die For This Flag" crowd is... a reaallly bad fucking look. They're gerrymandering in Texas is barely keeping the state red, and once they lose Texas... they're never going to have political power again. Younger voters are breaking with the trend of going more conservative as they age, so they're not replacing their base. This is what happens when Conservatism is in its death throws. They flipping out and rapidly shooting off their typical talking point is a desperate bid to maintain their power. "Jewish space lasers! Burning all the oil is good, actually! Mexican caravans are gonna get your kids. Gay... wait no we can't do that one again... uh... TRANS people are coming for your kids! Great replacement! Blacks! Be scared, please oh please!" Its wild.

Because right wing ideology requires fear and an enemy to sustain itself

@@Gloomdrake That's unfortunate. I wish it would stop though. Because it's meaning less to scapegoat people who are just being themselves. It's a violent cycle that needs to stop repeating itself.

I imagine it’s for this: start by controlling a minority, control more minorities, control the majority, control everyone.

asking people to understand nuance is like explaining special relativity to a random person on the street

Exactly my thoughts.