This is bad.
A new anti-trans bill in West Virginia would ban "transgender exposure to minors" as "obscene matter."
It would add to a law with a 5 year prison term, and to ALL laws around minors in WV.
It must not pass.
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https://erininthemorn.substack.com/p/new-wv-obscenity-bill-would-jail
The law is SB252, and it also spells out many other provisions, such as not allowing "obscene matter" within 2,500 feet from schools.
This brings us back to 3 articles laws from the 1960s.
It explicitly targets "transvestite and transgender exposure, performance, or display"
The law that it applies the definition to is 61-8A-1. The penalties for "intentionally distributing, offering, or displaying to a minor any obscene matter" is 5 years in prison and $25,000.
remember that this law defines "transgender exposure" as "obscene matters"
They are no longer making pretense of targeting the drag community alone. Now they are explicitly targeting transgender people. Nebraska has recently done the same thing in dropping the pretense, although they don't explicitly spell out transgender people, just gender identity.
@ErinInTheMorn You know, a really funny side of this is that I expect attendance at drag shows to increase dramatically because of the Streisand Effect.
We'll see if I'm right.
