Texas lawmakers file FURRIES Act, targeting animal roleplay in schools
The Forbidding Unlawful Representation of Roleplaying in Education, or FURRIES, Act, filed by Austin-area Republican State Rep. Stan Gerdes, would "prohibit any non-human behavior by a student, including presenting himself or herself, on days other than exempt days, as anything other than a human being."
The law would allow for exempt days, such as Halloween and other school dress-up days.
The law defines "non-human" behavior as "any type of behavior or accessory displayed by a student in a school district other than behaviors or accessories typically displayed by a member of the homo sapiens species," with provided examples being:
Using a litter box for the passing of stool, urine or other human byproducts
A personal or outward display, except during a school play or by a school mascot, through surgical or superficial means of features that are non-human such as using tails, leashes, collars or other accessories designed for pets
Using fur, other than naturally occurring human hair or a wig made to look like human hair
Artificial, animal-like ears
Other physiological features that have not historically been assigned to the human race through a means of natural biological development
Students who bark, meow, hiss or make other animal noises that are not human speech
Licking oneself or others for the purpose of grooming or maintenance.
The party of small government
Apparently the legal limit for sex toys in general (in texas) is 6.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_obscenity_statute
I believe they all have to be different otherwise there is intent to distribute.
The workaround may be using guns as dildos, which would probably be more obtainable in Texas anyway.
They're not small enough to fit in womens' size pants, but they sure are trying to fit in women's pants to personally check for the absence of male anatomy.
Uh, what? That sentence is borderline unreadable.
I'm being hyperbolic when I say that the Republican Party wants to personally check what's in women's pants, but the reality is that they're disturbingly fucking focused on ensuring trans women can't be in women's bathrooms or women's sports. Nobody with a modicum of decency would try to predicate bathroom usage based on the absence or presence of a penis, yet they're constantly trying to present and push through legislation to do just that.
Whatever the hell you're smoking, it must be something good. I'm criticizing the Republican Party, not defending them.
Or, if I'm misunderstanding and you're actually calling me a Nazi for thinking trans people should not be subjected to gential inspection, then you're in desperate need of a mirror.
It's just one of several modern versions of satanic panic used to distract the dummies while they fleece them.
So many people believe the litter box thing. So many that it made it into this law. We're surrounded by idiots.
Is anyone actually worried about this?
Edit: about children pretending to be cats.
If enacted, I'm guessing the main effect of this would be to make "meow" the new standard greeting among a large fraction of the student population in Texas high schools.
They put that in the law because they want people to think it actually happens.
It reminds me of the time that a proposed bill outlawed "critical race theory" in schools, which it defined (in part) as teaching that present-day white people must feel guilty about past slavery. But nobody had ever taught that.
They do have cat litter. Its used during lockdowns when a child is locked in their classroom and cant leave to use the restroom. One school in particular that has cat litter is Columbine.
In my day it was also useful for cleaning up puke.
Yeah, and then a lie was fabricated trying to say that schools were getting litter boxes for children that identified as animals, which was then used to say that trans people were causing it.
that in turn reminds me of https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/19/opinion/the-horrors-of-secular-humanism.html
Lots of students with verbal communication issues about to be illegal. As are students with artifical limbs or organs or even glucose monitors. Also who gets to decide this: "other than behaviors or accessories typically displayed by a member of the homo sapiens species"?
It's vague, specifically so they can invoke it against any child they consider part of the "out group"- like trans, n/b, autistic, developmentally handicapped, socially handicapped, awkward, queer, "strange," brown, wrong religion, wrong clothes, wrong facial expression... the list can go on. The cruelty is the point. Fascists are literally comic levels of evil. If you are not one of "them" you are evil, bad, and need removed. Same for the ideologically impure. Shit is going to get extremely crazy within the next few months to year.
This is why I like public schools, they really dont have a lot of choice when admitting students. Kids are little over-creative sociopathic people with some hints of empathy, that can and will cause trouble just because they are bored. Without a public school systems, where we are going, the private school systems will be way pickier and choosier with whom they allow in. Any record of disturbance will probably get a student banned and theyll have to go to another school out of state or further to get an education befitting them.
They're already underhandedly targeting autistic kids with it as-is. Vocal stims like meowing or nonverbal communication like growling are covered directly.
Homey, they about to defund and empty the DoE, every single person in need of an IEP are about to be screwed. The students wont be illegal, they just wont be allowed in the new private school system for espousing anti-social behaviors.
Edit: I do not adhere or condone destroying the public school system in any way. The fact that the US has been defunding and legislatively attacking public schools since the 60s is deplorable behavior
What they don't realize is that by doing this they are making it easier to replace the United States Federal government. Prior to this Administration one could make the argument that doing our evolution is hard or an advisable because you would have to recreate systems for inspecting the food and predicting the weather and all of that but at this point? We're going to have to do that anyway so we might as well do so under a fundamentally better system
They're creating a power vacuum, in other words
You don't expect them to have thought it through, do you?
Jesus Christ, someone buy these guys a fursuit already. I'll chip in. We can do a GoFundMe.
Hey DOGE, these are the dumbasses wasting taxpayer money.
Goth girls wore collars when I was in high school, before furries were a thing.
FWIW, furries have have been 'a thing' since at least 1980. (just trivia: I know you're talking about trends in your area)
The party of small government and personal freedoms.
Obviously, they were talking about their personal freedom to dictate the freedom of everyone else.
I think we're running into a phase where Republicans are proposing laws based on shared boomer facebook posts and the like rather then actual concrete issues.
its not a phase!!
Sadly, it's not. This is who they are, and always have been
You raise an excellent point, and it honestly makes me think of Tyson Yunkaporta’s perspective on the actual historical purpose of free public elementary education: to retrain the human mind toward total obedience to the state. In order to mold a person into obedience, you have to take away their sense of agency, their ability to think for themselves, and their creativity. Children increase their understanding of the world and express their creativity through play, which includes pretending to be elements of the world such as animals. In removing the natural ability to be creative through play, you wrangle tighter control over how they think.
So I’m not saying the creators of this bill are actively intending to further force ingrained obedience in American
servantscitizens, but I’m also not saying that they’re totally unaware of the possibilities.They're evil is what it is. We need to redo school from first principals
When and where I went to school it was basically self-policing. The bully and urge to conformity was so blatant and oppressive that anyone that didnt fit the mold outwardly were ostracized anyway. This is just codifying that behavior into law. Its gross and unnecessary to make laws based on lies and manipulation because every fear-inducing news headline is blasted via the loudest megaphone humanity has ever created.
I suspect schools unoffically allow bullying for this very reason
I'm PROUD that they CUT my Child's Lunch and Teacher's salary so they could focus on THIS!
The cow says "you're under arrest".
It’s actually the pig that says that.
I love how there's exempt days. You can dress up like a furry once in a while as a treat.
On exempt days, parents should send their kids to school as a wolf with tits and giant balls.
Yeah fr. There's nothing stopping every school from just saying "every day is optional dress up day"
If nothing else in my life, it does make me feel powerful how fucking afraid of me that republicans are.
I bet they classify homosexual behavior as not part of normal homosapiens behavior.
Great outrage in the anime community following catgirls ban.
As a furry weeb I propose an alliance
But licking oneself or others for the purpose of affection is still fine, right??
A grown ass man had to write this for the express purpose of stopping kids from playing at school.
Stan Gerdes what the fuck is wrong with you dude? Who hurt you?
This seems to be like a recent moral panic here in Finland about therian kids in schools.
@QuentinCallaghan @cm0002 As someone else noted, therianism to varying degree is not only normal for children, but common, if not nearly universal. I'd even consider its complete absence unusual and maybe concerning. You can quiz people, but I think you'd find it's like masturbation, wherein nearly everyone either admits to it or lies about it, so surveys are probably not helpful.
It's odd to me that Finland would worry about this, being probably the best-educated country in the world.
Leopards? Faces?
That's... really something, I'm not sure what, but it's definitely a thing.
Lol most furries are plane engineers or somthin so they're angering the wrong ppl
That means these are illegal now too:
As well as goths/punks wearing collars. Both of these are things I did in high school, and I’m not a furry. This is so dumb.
So does this mean no more Christmas plays about Jesus, where the kids dress up for the manger scene as donkeys and camels? Or will there be a "special exemption" for that?
Is this happening so often that it requires a law?
Why not put that money, time, and effort into providing sexual education so people better understand how to not get pregnant, reducing the occurrence of abortions?
Not in any amount worth anyone's energy.
Because the law must have those it binds, but does not protect..
It's wild how often it helps answer "why are they doing this?!"
Not in any amount worth anyone's energy.
Because the law must have those it binds, but does not protect..
It's wild how often it helps answer "why are they doing this?!"
yo they can peel my chokers from my cold dead hands
And that's why Sen. Stan Gerdes had all those URLs in their browser history!
GOP is against the thriving mascot community!
I find this law hilarious. And incredibly dumb. Hilariously dumb. Maybe spend more on education and childcare. There's always going to be the "wild child" in school.
This is going to be one of those laws that ends up in a "top ten weird laws in texas" video in 50 years once the context of the "student identifies as a cat" myth disappears
You know I'm kinda surprised they even still bother with thinly-veiled queerphobia when being overt is trendy nowadays.
- Tabitha (ey/it) ΘΔ
Saw a video clip skit years ago of a school girl doing the litterbox things. Had no friggin idea it was a real thing
It's not.
Someone should explain that to Abutt
Look I hate furries as much as the next sane person, but this is just stupid. Leave the damn kids alone.
I hope you mean 0, because that's what it should be for a sane person
Imagine hating someone for their choice of harmless hobbies
What do you have against us?