If passed, the bill would let parents sue anyone supporting a minor's social gender transition, from hairdressers to teachers and nonprofits.
  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
    1071·
    23 hours ago

    Punishing women for being insufficiently feminine has always been a parallel goal of the anti-trans movement.

  • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
    411·
    23 hours ago

    Hi, gender is a spectrum and while I fully identify as male and straight*, I had long hair as a child. If my school had tried to cut my hair by force, I would have absolutely thrown hands, and I was not a small child. Apparently I pushed a teacher into a wall as a first grader but I have no memory of doing so.

    Hair is not “gender conforming” unless you’re the most vanilla, thinks-flour-is-spicy, “mayonnaise has too much flavor” basic bitch in the universe. If you really think hair has two genders “long and short” then you are just the saddest sack of shit.

    Hair is whatever the fuck you want it to be. I decided I didn’t want long hair anymore, so I started getting it cut short. I even had it around 1/4in at one point just because of how easy it was to be done with. Now it’s long because before I got married, my now-wife said she liked when it was longer, so I’m growing it out again until we decide it’s long enough or I get tired of it again. If I wanted to shave most of it right now, I can do that. Nobody controls my hair but me, and nobody has any say in how I keep it, short of safety concerns. (protip: hair ties and a hair net when working with rotary tools, once you’ve seen a video you never want it to happen to you)

    Get the fuck out of here with this weak ass bullshit policing children’s hair.

    They won’t be happy until everyone is a straight white silent and obedient clone of each other.

    *It’s a spectrum, sometimes I want to feel pretty so if you had to stick me in a hole I’d say I’m straight but I’m sure someone could make a convincing argument that I’m at least a little fluid.

    • NotSteve_@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      15 hours ago

      Man for real. I’m a guy but I’ve had long hair nearly my entire life and have spent the last decade really making sure it was well cared for. Currently my hair goes down past my shoulders.

      Fuck me for having nice hair though I guess

      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 hours ago

        I’ve got a male friend who had the most luscious locks. Down to his chin. His wife made him cut it, and everyone who knew him was upset.

    • clif@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      17 hours ago

      I’m old but the shortest my hair has been in the past 35 or 40 years is shoulder length. Every other spring I have the spouse chop it off to shoulder length then let it go again for two years.

      I’m also in Arkansas.

      But, not a kid so I guess it’s okay for me to be my filthy hippie / sasquatch self according to this proposal.

  • Asetru@feddit.orgEnglish
    55·
    1 day ago

    Republican lawmakers in Arkansas have introduced a bill that would allow lawsuits against anyone who […] use a student’s chosen name that is different from their birth name

    Did you just call him Bob? Robert, call the name police! Now!!

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        yes its a gop stronghold Huckabee sanders, recently(kinda) made child labor legal there.

      • aturtlesdream@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        23 hours ago

        It’s a super religious state, something like 80% Christian, and a lot of those are the actual church going kind. It’s the home of the Duggars (18 kids and counting) crazy baptist type sect of ultra conservative loons

    • futatorius@lemm.eeEnglish
      35·
      1 day ago

      While visiting relatives in 1972 or so, I got beaten up in Little Rock by two brawny boys my age because my hair hung down to my lower back.

      “Hey, did your mama want a girl?”

      “Your mother sure wanted this boy.”

      That got them both off their porch and got me a nasty beating.

      • Dogiedog64@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        22 hours ago

        They got the physical victory, but you got the emotional victory, and anyone who gets violent over a ‘Your Mom’ joke like that will NEVER live it down. They probably still think about you sometimes.