So........What the actual F***?

[sheshe2]

Texas passes a total public drag ban.

The law bans "sexual gesticulations using accessories or prosthetics that exaggerate male or female sexual characteristics."

It will target all public drag by calling all drag "sexual."

Wonder if it will be used against cheerleaders too.

Link to tweet

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Hey girls, no more padded or push em up bras for you. No breast enlargement or new kidneys. No butt enhancers and what ever you do, don't hug or touch butt or breasts in public. They passed a law that said that is a no no.

[madaboutharry]

1. I'm speechless.

These people have issues and are seriously sexually repressed. There is some major projection going on in this legislation.

It is also a well designed distraction so voters won’t notice how republicans ruin everything
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[sheshe2]

6. IKR?!

The gop electorate is dimmer than a burned out bulb.

[TheBlackAdder]

23. This allows Republican's to dress in drag as long as their boobs and codpieces are reasonable.

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For Republican men, their packages are so small anyway that they look tucked. So it's just boobs.

For Republican women, that would be any dong that is greater than three or four inches.

.

[Comfortably_Numb]

2. There is some serious emotional/sexual repression rearing its ugly head in Texmagastan. What

is it that these pseudo alpha males are repressing??? Inquiring minds want to know. FFS, lege and governor numb nuts, among other things, just go ahead and take that leap to your genuine selves and be free!!!!

[dpibel]

3. Not actual English

"the exhibition of sexual gesticulations" is first-rate gobbledygook.

[Hekate]

5. So I can't flip the bird at them?

[dpibel]

8. I think you can!

As long as you don't use any accessories or prosthetics that exaggerate male or female sexual characteristics.

But it looks like a natural middle finger should be good.

[calimary]

21. I'd sure want to.

[sheshe2]

10. It's in the bill.

I sure as hell didn't write it.

[dpibel]

14. Absolutely

I don't believe I said you did.

I was just pointing out the fact that the Texas lege doesn't seem to legislate in English.

[sheshe2]

15. Got it.

[ShazzieB]

18. Seriously, wtf even are "sexual gesticulations"? 🙄

Are gay men going to be arrested for having limp wrists or some shit?

[usonian]

4. They have overstepped reality.

Bad news for athletes.
Ouch.

[Solly Mack]

7. There goes dancing.

[SeattleVet]

12. Previously described as "a vertical expression of a horizontal intention"...

usually by people with no imagination at all...who says it *has* to be horizontal?

(Like that old Ann Landers trope about preventing teen pregnancy by using a single aspirin - 'hold it between the knees' is completely ineffective when using some very common positions!)

[Solly Mack]

16. Unfortunately, the imaginations of those writing these laws formed in the gutter and stayed there.

Something can be naughty without being dirty. And even the (so-called) dirty is cleaner than the sickness that goes through the minds of right-wingers.

[Ilsa]

9. Will women be able to get breast prosthetics?

Or have reconstructive surgery? Are breasts going to be considered only as sexual?

[sheshe2]

13. This is so incredibly effed up, poorly written.

You just have to know a stupid, sexually repressed man had to have written it as are the ones that voted to pass the bill. Or one that is unsure of his own masculinity. The gop seemed to be terrified of everything. Hell this is Texas and they are forced out of fear to carry a gun wherever they go. What if they go out for a coffee and it was too damn hot and it burned his mouth, he would be forced to shoot the server for endangering his life! He would stand his ground.

Prosthetics? My guess is no the way the bill was written.

[Mr.Bill]

11. Looks like it was written

to be selectively enforced.

[TreasonousBastard]

17. Damn! And here I thought bullet bras were on the way back

[BComplex]

26. Ha!!

[Grumpy Old Guy]

19. Does that apply to padded bras?

Shaking my damn head!

[no_hypocrisy]

30. And codpieces?

[SunSeeker]

20. Republican taliban government. nt

[Rhiannon12866]

22. How about wigs - or toupees?? Now we have a state instituting a dress code??

I thought we left that behind when we got out of high school??

[Axelrods_Typewriter]

24. Next thing you know they'll have a short list of approved hairstyles. Y'know, like North Korea.

[Rhiannon12866]

25. That's exactly what I meant - yikes!

[modrepub]

27. Dallas Is Full Of Them

Cheerleaders that is. I wouldn't expect law enforcement to be acting against anything those women are doing.

[NBachers]

28. No twerking with a Brazilian butt lift!

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

29. what about those big nuts hanging from trucks?

[allegorical oracle]

31. Does it affect the WWE? nt

[yardwork]

32. These laws will have unintended consequences and be tied up in court.

However, laws like this are applied selectively. Cheerleaders definitely won't be arrested. These laws are a tool to be used against people the authorities don't like.