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.
Jesus Christ, someone buy these guys a fursuit already. I’ll chip in. We can do a GoFundMe.
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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.
They’re already underhandedly targeting autistic kids with it as-is. Vocal stims like meowing or nonverbal communication like growling are covered directly.
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.
You don’t expect them to have thought it through, do you?
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
The party of small government and personal freedoms.
Obviously, they were talking about their personal freedom to dictate the freedom of everyone else.
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)
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.
As a furry weeb I propose an alliance
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!!
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.
You have to laugh
This seems to be like a recent moral panic here in Finland about therian kids in schools.
I bet they classify homosexual behavior as not part of normal homosapiens behavior.
Eggs are like $9/dozen.
If nothing else in my life, it does make me feel powerful how fucking afraid of me that republicans are.
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.
Look I hate furries as much as the next sane person, but this is just stupid. Leave the damn kids alone.
hate furries as much as the next sane person
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?
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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.
that in turn reminds me of https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/19/opinion/the-horrors-of-secular-humanism.html
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.
