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New WV bill amends state definition of "obscene material" to include transgender people

The ability to groom children into believing cross dressing is desirable behavior is not Freedom.

The groomers are people who indoctrinate children into believing that they deserve to go to Hell. Righties don't care about that, though--in fact, many of them openly advocate it.
 
The groomers are people who indoctrinate children into believing that they deserve to go to Hell.
Blah blah blah blah
Righties don't care about that, though--in fact, many of them openly advocate it.
Teaching someone true things Is good. Teaching weird sex practices and fetishes to young children is not.
 
Blah blah blah blah

Teaching someone true things Is good. Teaching weird sex practices and fetishes to young children is not.

There is no evidence for the Hell that right-wing Christians are indoctrinating kids into believing.
 
There is no evidence for the Hell that right-wing Christians are indoctrinating kids into believing.
Yes there is. Far more than for the idea that you can change your sex
 
West Virginia has one of the lowest standards of living and highest poverty rates in the country, and people are fleeing in droves.

So what do they do? Persecute trans people!

And have sex with family members, but that's okay.
 
The cruelty is the point.
 
West Virginia.

That’s all that needs to be said.

It’s almost like these backwards states are having a race to the bottom.
As compared to where: Baltimore, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles?

Have you ever even been to West Virginia? Probably not.
 

It is very much part of the Christian nationalism movement.

Interestingly, it would seem now in West Virginia that any local newspaper, magazine purveyor or television that published or broadcast or sold a picture of far right Congressman George Santos in drag would be guilty of a felony.
 
What about Kabuki? And would that mean that if a parent was caught letting their child watch To Wong Fu Thanks For Everything Julie Newmar or The Birdcage or Hairspray would they also be facing criminal prosecution?
Or a news clip of a Mardi Gras parade or people wearing Halloween costumes, or male rock bands who wear makeup or police and fire units who wear kilts as ceremonial dress.
 
Have you ever even been to West Virginia? Probably not.
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve gone white water rafting down the New and Gauley Rivers - Upper and Lower branches of both.

West Virginia is gorgeous if you like the outdoors. Other than that, the state has major issues and is completely lacking in any sort of successful infrastructure - healthcare, education, economic development, etc.
 
West Virginia has one of the lowest standards of living and highest poverty rates in the country, and people are fleeing in droves.

So what do they do? Persecute trans people!
Based on that weak argument. Does New York have the same problem since so many have fled to Florida?
 
What about Kabuki? And would that mean that if a parent was caught letting their child watch To Wong Fu Thanks For Everything Julie Newmar or The Birdcage or Hairspray would they also be facing criminal prosecution?
Jack Lemmon - Some Like it Hot
Milton Berle
A whole bunch of clown shows and acts.
Ren Faire here has shows with men dressed (badly) as women and doing stupid skits (which are hilarious after a couple of meads, but thats how I got married so no comment)

What about women who dress up like men? Given the wide range of fashions...thats a real can of worms. The daughter might come down looking like a lumberjack, a Goth, Manic Pixie DreamGirl, or Sunday church lass depending on the day or hour.
 
Based on that weak argument. Does New York have the same problem since so many have fled to Florida?

Florida? Florida? Under authoritarian fascist "Don't Say Gay" DeSantist? Surely you jest.

"The Board of Education is just one of a number of state agencies being weaponized against the LGBTQ community by Governor DeSantis and his administration. Florida’s Medicaid agency (the Agency for Health Care Administration) recently created a rule ending Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming care in the state. The Board of Medicine is currently undergoing a similar rulemaking process that could threaten the licenses of health care professionals for providing gender-affirming care to transgender youth. And in July, the governor weaponized the Department of Business and Professional Regulation against an LGBTQ-owned small business in Miami, threatening to strip the restaurant of its liquor license after they hosted a drag performance at their weekly Sunday Brunch."
 
WV, nuff said!
 

Cheat River several times. Great fun.
 
This will be challenged in federal court and it will be tossed.

This bill is the result of out of control redneck morons in the state legislature of WV.

Those individuals need to be removed from office in disgrace.
 
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