Texas lawmakers file FURRIES Act, targeting animal roleplay in schools

Man they are still caught up on that fake story somebody sent to one of these morons claiming kids were using litter boxes in school. It never happened but they're going to try to legislate it away anyway.

The lesson here is don't troll these idiots, they'll fucking believe it and then start passing idiotic laws for non-problems.

Can we still say "what's up, dawg?"

It is funny that the litter box story was taken as gospel.

What a time to be alive.

Play Duck Duck Goose? Jail

Face paint? Beleive it or not Jail

Old McDonald? Straight to jail

It’s incredible that republicans can constantly waste tax dollars on worthless shit like this and still be viewed as the party of financial responsibility by their dumb ass voting base

Students who bark, meow, hiss or make other animal noises that are not human speech

I'm not quite sure what it is exactly (/s), but maybe—just maybe—this is yet another attempt to fuck over and ostracize transfem and autistic people, but instead of being direct about it, using furries as the boogeyman.

Texans, next time you look at the prices in the grocery store, remember that this is what your representatives are spending their time on.

Besides them being stupid as hell to conduct this ridiculous culture war, I take issue with another thing, the name:

Forbidding Unlawful Representation of Roleplaying in Education

It's not unlawful until you forbid it. So the title makes no sense. You're not forbidding the unlawful. You're forbidding the previously lawful, making it unlawful.

Stupid assholes.

Wow.

I remember learning about dinosaurs as an elementary schooler after Jurassic Park came out, and spending a few months on the playground pretending to be a velociraptor (well technically they're closer to deinonychous but w/e) ... apparently that is now banned, because otherwise I might have become a scaly, for life?

Wonderful.

Licking oneself or others for the purpose of grooming or maintenance.

Good luck trying to enforce that. Most people lick a small wound on their hands an fingers. It's our subconscious that triggers that.

So they're scared of people becoming furries. I know a few furries, not in the scene myself but furries are genuinely some of the nicest people I know. And also this bill seems ableist because I knew an autistic person that would growl whenever he had a meltdown. He wasn't a furry, it was just how he was wired.

Any behavior humans do is human behavior, this law is legally dubious at best. Mimicking animals has been a human thing since humans came to be.

Okay seriously, did someone write this law just so it could be contested in court??

The forbidden non human speech is written as onomatopoeias. Like how can you call that stuff nonhuman speech after literally writing it in human language? If I read this part of the law out loud am I violating the law?

I could also see the rights to perform cultural religious dances being infringed upon by this law.

Man, republicans really fucking hate freedom.

“You are only allowed to express yourself in ways that are approved by the state!”

Filing this under “Closeted conservative so ashamed of their kink that, instead of discussing their feelings with a therapist, psychiatrist, or even a trusted friend, believe everyone must share their taboo thoughts and therefore be preëmptively punished to stamp out the contagion since the only honorable alternative is undergoing apoptosis like some malfunctioning cell”.

Man they keep coming back to the litterbox thing, it really freaks them tf out. Even though its been debunked dozens of time, my conservative friends all swear they know a guy that knows a guy that swears he saw one for real!

I can’t wait for all IT infrastructure in Texas to get compromised over this. The amount of excellent it and comp sci guys that are furries is staggering. And there are a few online collectives that can and will do damage to personal and government entities over shit like this

My barking at people is protected under the first amendment.

What the fuck are they looking to do, arrest kids who say "meow" in school?

I wonder how much of this is borne out of the hysteria over kids supposedly using litter boxes.

I had some gomer on the Denver Post forums that kept insisting it was not only a thing, but an epidemic. I kept asking him for the supposed evidence of this claim, all he could say was that he "talks to lots and lots of parents and teachers" and "the media won't report on it".

Can we start torso-kicking these people? Why do we have to be civil?

Priorities.

So children are not allowed to play anymore. It breaks my heart knowing how important expressing the connection to a favourite animal is for many kids. I know nazis go for easy targets, but the fact they target children is just nauseating to me.

Maybe the constitution of the United States of America says something about this? Maybe like the first thing in the bill of rights? Nah I must be mistaken.

fReE sPeEcH

Why on earth are they pursuing this. We all know this is not a real problem.

If it was a scare crow to attack trans rights, they have achieved that. They have pulverized trans rights in many places, especially bathroom access.

Who stands to gain from this? It is not a real problem!

Licking oneself or others for the purpose of grooming or maintenance

Wtf, they can't lick their fingers after eating meow? Or use a little spit to fix a popped up hair or eyebrow? This is stupid woof.

So a furry suit made from human hair is ok? Asking for a friend

i cannot begin to describe how utterly fucking stupid this is.

I genuinely thought i died and went to hell when i first read this, this bill doesn't even make any fucking sense. Child exhibiting "non human behaviors" could be considered "child abuse" according to this bill.

How the fuck do you even enforce this?

Sooooo much freeedommmm.... By limiting self expression.

If you’re still in Texas, and not a furry, GTFO before they criminalize something YOU think is normal and harmless.

Fascists are so stupid, they start to believe their own propaganda. Can't even remember, or at least be bothered to remember, that they made this up to scare normies.

I feel they put more effort into coming up with an acronym that into planning the actual act. I’m pretty sure in the early 90s punk phase people wore collars for fashion too.

How about focusing all this effort and passing a bill to prevent officers being pussies during an active shooter situation like in Uvalde??

The law defines "non-human" behavior "any type of behavior... [not typically] displayed by a member of the homo sapiens species,"

NATHON!! STOP ACTING LIKE A HOMO ERECTUS YOU NEANDERTHAL!

also im pretty sure "human" means 'under the homo genus' not 'homo sapien' but its not like it matters to them

Kinda like this one I know the litter shit is bullshit. Though we all knew those annoying ass kids in school.

Other physiological features that have not historically been assigned to the human race through a means of natural biological development

Does that forbid earrings as well? They're non-biological extensions/modifications of the human body.

But you can lick yourself and others for… other purposes?

What world do these people live in? I just can't imagine this is a issue and i imagine that passing a law like this will just lead to kids definitely shitting in litter boxes because breaking the law is fun, imagine the court case of a kid dressed like a cat and pissed in a box.. straight to jail

Surgical means‽

Also why are they legislating about this. Texas schools have real problems like gun violence and illiteracy. Furries and animal role play are just things some people have always done that don't really harm anyone and given how they persist across so many cultures and times could actually be considered a natural behavior of homo sapiens like parrots' mimicry

Fuck how the heck they find double entendre.acronyms for any shit they pull. Coincidentally eat shit assholes what the fuck did those poor people do to you? I don't consider myself a furry but have friends that does.

Oh boy, the fascists have really done it now: they're going after the beastpeople! Beware its poisonous spittle!

Forbid child to play animals, they will do it when grow up, just see how much Trump likes to be Putin’s dog.

Republicans are fucking weirdos.

Furries are the ultimate dorks. I know I am very furry affiliated and most of my friends are furries... but this makes being a furry badass nyao.

Make reactionaries angry at this law by saying it bans children from wearing fur.

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

what kind of kinky ass school mascots do Texans have

So can’t dress as a Republican?

I always tell people, that they won't stop at LGBTQ+ people, and will eventually go into persecuting other subcultures.

Rent free.

What is it with them and this absolute conviction that kids are pretending to be cats, it's literally not happening and yet they're upset about it.

If they are going to make things up and then be upset about those made up things can they not come up with something less weird than kids being cats? Why not be upset about all the Dark Lords in schools, or the uptake in alien abductions?

I bark at them using my very human vocal cords (I don't even have any other). Prove me on court that I was not using human vocal cords to bark. Or maybe I was using totally non-human made recording-speaker device?

Or maybe my 1.7m tall fursuit was designed to be weared by my cat? No way even lololong house cat could be that big. (lie, I don't own a fursuit, in any size, but point still apply).

Oh I know! Some tailed buttplugs were totally designed for pets and it is all about being pet care!

Republicans outlawing catboys? That’s gonna make the republicans mad.

As usual, the GOP is laser-focused on the most important matters facing the American public today

"Using tails, leashes, collars" - the B&D crowd isn't going to like that

You could think that reality has no more pressing problems.

It would be so funny if schools start "dressup weeks/months" with rotating theme in protest

Ironic really, given how right here the cuntservatives are just chasing their own tail.

There goes any school plays with animal characters

Dude is going to flip if he ever watches Miracle on 34th Street.

I've checked what comm I'm in and the URL several times, this is !nottheonion@lemmy.world

I admit that I block the furry and all its sexual representation on fedi when I see it. It doesn't turn me on that much and feels weird. But that's the same feeling a woman or man would have towards a gay person of the same sex or similar of different gender. This is sexism at its core. WTF!

In these trying times republicans are banning ghosts and bigfoots, which are real and legitimate concerns and not fake anecdotes that have spiralled out of control in some kind right wing fetish news circles.

Is the hacker known as 4Chan at it again?

There is no way this is real, is it?

I loved acting like a dog as a kid. We often played things like pokemon or lion king, etc. Soooo kids just can't "play animals" anymore? Wtf.

So we can report anyone wearing leather now?

There's about to be a fire sale on Mickey and Minnie Mouse headbands.

And if I identity as an extraterrestrial autonomous exploration and research unit, with a general mission directive of learning about humanity first hand?