• FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
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    6 hours ago

    Cross dressing is now illegal in Ohio. In a bill that is vaguely worded and will be enforced very subjectively because nature didn’t clarify what clothes are masculine and feminine

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      Things are bad; I’m not going to argue that things aren’t bad. I’m not a lawyer, I eat crayons.

      That Ohio bill hasn’t been passed yet. I don’t know how likely it is to pass. Too likely, I guess.

      It also doesn’t dictate a blanket ban on cross-dressing. What it does do is put “performers or entertainers who exhibit a gender identity that is different from the performer’s or entertainer’s biological sex” into the category of adult entertainments like stripping, meaning it’s restricted in the same ways. No kids allowed. That’s lines 153 to 165 here.

      That’s very big, it’s very bad, it’s very stupid, it’s mean, it’s anti-freedom. Un-American, I’d say. It would seem to create problems with Bugs Bunny, Harpo Marx, Monty Python, etc. But the most obvious thing it’s targeting is “Drag Queen Story Hour.”

      But it isn’t a ban on cross-dressing in general. Yet.