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.
I bet they classify homosexual behavior as not part of normal homosapiens behavior.
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.
Jesus Christ, someone buy these guys a fursuit already. I’ll chip in. We can do a GoFundMe.
Silly of you to think that they don’t already have many of them, especially because the masks obscure their fucking shitty IRL identities.
The party of small government
Small enough to fit in your bedroom
And to make sure you don’t own more dildos than the legal limit
As far as I am concerned, my ass can know no legal limit.
Personally, I’m not a fan of dildo, but if any government tried to tell me, I couldn’t have 1000 in my asset any time, I would write it. And I have under similar constructions.
Apparently the legal limit for sex toys in general (in texas) is 6.
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.
You know I’m kinda surprised they even still bother with thinly-veiled queerphobia when being overt is trendy nowadays.
- Tabitha (ey/it) ΘΔ
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
You don’t expect them to have thought it through, do you?
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”
Artificial, animal-like ears Other physiological features that have not historically been assigned to the human race through a means of natural biological development
Great outrage in the anime community following catgirls ban.
Using a litter box for the passing of stool, urine or other human byproducts
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.
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
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?
Is this happening so often that it requires a law?
Not in any amount worth anyone’s energy.
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?
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?!”
Is this happening so often that it requires a law?
Not in any amount worth anyone’s energy.
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?
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?!”
It’s just one of several modern versions of satanic panic used to distract the dummies while they fleece them.
And that’s why Sen. Stan Gerdes had all those URLs in their browser history!
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
Students who bark, meow, hiss or make other animal noises that are not human speech
The cow says “you’re under arrest”.
It’s actually the pig that says that.
