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new bill proposed in West Virginia effectively makes it functionally illegal to be publicly transgender. It amends their definition of obscene material to include "any transgender exposure".
Conservatives view trans people as inherently sexual basically.
Obscene material (which now includes exposure to trans people) is banned within 2,500 feet of schools.
The punishment for exposing a minor to obscene material is a felony.
How would this effect transgender teachers or parents? What if you drive/walk past a school?
A recently proposed law of a similar nature effectively bans transgender people from performing in public, and possibly Shakespeare plays and movies like Ms Doubtfire.
The new round of anti-trans bills being introduced are far more worrying than previous laws. The end goal is clear. They view transgender people as a social contagen and existing in public as a sexual act, basically grooming children into being trans, and want to ban trans people from public life. They don't want them in media. They don't want them to teach. They don't want them to be parents. They wished they didn't exist at all.