Texas Introduces F.U.R.R.I.E.S Act Bill, Bans 'Non-Human Behavior' for students
Yes you read that right, a real actual bill was introduced in the state of Texas, which bans "Non-Human Behavior" in Texas schools. It includes students behaving like animals such as making meowing noises, wearing tails, animal consumes and much more. Non-Human Behavior is defined within such bill.
The bill also intents to make it a form of a child abuse to encourage said behavior. This means that when a parent encourages a child to believe that it is socially acceptable to engage in such Non-Human Behavior for example, it would become a form of "abuse".
SECTION 5. Subdivision 261.001(1), Family Code, is amended to
read as follows:(1) "Abuse" includes the following acts or omissions by a person:
(A) mental or emotional injury to a child that results in an observable and material impairment in the child's growth, development, or psychological functioning, including, in an education setting, allowing or encouraging the child to develop a dependence on or a belief that non-human behaviors are societally acceptable;bold is emphasizing the change in text proposed by amendment
A continuation of concerning patterns in lawmaking
As a proposed bill, it is possible that like prior furry bills this one does not pass voting to be put into law. Knowing how backwards the USA is going with a lot of breaking news involving politics, with it becoming less LGBTQ friendly including with many anti-LGBTQ bills, this actually isn't too surprising to me but still worth talking about. I have a fainted memory of a person in some office wanting to make it a death penalty for teachers talk to children about transgender [Editor note: Probably this situation, but this politician failed to get into office]. Seeing how many Republicans are basically destroying so much of the USA and is leading toward what seems be a fascist authoritarianism mindset, I pretty much expect this insane type of stuff to be happening to a degree.
There is so much going on that targets many human rights, and since this bill is literally directly talking more about the topic of furries, it was worth posting here. I personally don't think the bill will survive for now.
Mainstream news pages have covered this here. The article has a link to the bill itself.
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And here I thought we'd have a year without one of these kind of bills being proposed. Almost got past March. Darn.
Recorded my video that will go over this a bit, but it won't be out for a few weeks. Like my ones for the OK bills of 2023 and 2024, it goes into a bit of detail.
I really don't know how much attention I want/can afford to devote to this right now, given that this is probably yet another distraction, like the war against Canada is a distraction. I just think war with Canada is a more likely threat than furries being persecuted in any meaningful sense. Not that the thought never occurs to me they could be.
The Canada thing just blows my mind. Who beefs with Canada? (Ironically, the wave of Canadian patriotism this has inspired has caused the neighbors up north to act the most American they ever have.)
I'm Canadian, and I've always believed America could/would invade one day, and it'd just be a matter of pretext. My old fear was usually that Russia would try to invade Canada or Alaska, and the U.S would have to annex us just to stop them. I never thought they'd conspire against us, though. That's what it looks like. I don't think it's a good idea to make us think an entire axis is against us or to create ethnic tensions. I didn't think of Americans and Canadians as different ethnicities until now, for example. Maybe I should've started thinking that way a long time ago.
The whole reason a US/Canada war was the plot of the South Park movie was because it was so ridiculously unlikely it was funny, at least from the American perspective.
It was funny to us, too, until all the rhetoric about how we're not a real country, tariffs, etc. It calls to mind how Americans have always talked about us online. Add all those things up, maybe it never should've been funny to us.
I'm sure a healthy majority understood it as neighbourly banter. I don't think any of us have actually considered questioning the sovereignty of Canada until Dorito Hitler came to power. Even then, modern imperialism (at least with world powers) is held under the pretext of proxy wars and the average person is more keen on kidding around rather than taking these things seriously, but I digress.
Folks really need to understand the difference between 'furry' and 'therian'. Acting like an animal and pissing in the alleged litterboxes (remember that hoax?) are things otherkins and therians do, not furries. Calling your bill "furries" is cringe and it's completely harmless for children to wear animal-themed paraphernalia like tails or cat ears.
Maybe it shouldn't be allowed at school I dunno I was wearing strictly school uniforms at my high school and I wasn't allowed to wear anything else, but calling it "child abuse" is crazy, over clothes nonetheless.
Wearing animal items is only "abuse" in an educational setting according to the bill's updated language, which doesn't make any sense.
How can something be "abuse" in one setting, but okay in another?
There are things that are okay in one setting but not in another, like wearing a bikini at the beach versus at a shopping centre. Though I can't offhand think of something that would be abuse depending on the setting without changing factors too. This bill is completely stupid though.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~
Exactly! If a school has a dress code and the dress code doesn't allow costumes, then they're within their rights to enforce it.
This bill is absolutely silly and I think it's harmful for our community the obsession of associating behaviors typically coming from therians to us.
There ARE loads of behaviors and tendencies where furries and otherkin overlap, though. Liking to portray one's self as an anthro, for example!
a bikini at a shopping center if it was on a child, though, that's your standard
I'm therian, and I don't do any of those things. That's never been a therian thing. I can't even recall a single anecdote of a cat therian feeling a need to go in the litter box instead of the bathroom when they shift, for example, and it's never been proven if mental shifting is even a thing. So you wore school uniforms, I'm sorry you were brainwashed. Did you at least have to wear long pants? It was a sicko that mandated little school boys should always wear shorts in Britain, count on it.
Never mind therian, I can't get my real cat to shit in her litter box most of the time.
It's probably just one of those joke bills they attempt to pass to annoy the other side and waste taxpayer money but they pretty much always never go through.
It's not really a joke anymore. Furry intersects with LGBTQ+. It's part of the broader agenda to further marginalize and otherwise erase minorities. You seriously think furries can't be real targets? Yeah, I sorta did, too... In the 90's!
I went ahead and yet again attempted to try to find what I was trying to remember and I think it was likely this one:
https://www.newsweek.com/pro-trump-pastor-wants-lgbtq-indoctrinators-executed-tr...
He mentioned furries alongside LGBTQ stuff, which appears to kinda add up what I was trying to remember. Though I did thought maybe it was just transgender and furry but I guess it was beyond that to a degree. I felt like I saw a more obscure reddit reaction thread but maybe can't find that if it existed but I feel like this was more it anyway.
I do thank the link in the article though as I don't think I knew that one.
Back to Mark Burns... oh boy.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-endorses-pastor-calls-154923217.html
If another halocaust were to happen, I feel it would start with twisting so many words up involving LGBTQ, and then using perverted punishments such as death penalty while using "think of the children" as a weapon. We already have emotional reactionary with baseless research behavior already passing death penalty for certain non-death crimes in some parts of the US and there is a desire for it even if the victim still prefers life over death. Not that I agree with death penalty though. I'm more of explaining a point here. With a lot of stuff going on, I can see valid reason to.
If you're afraid of capital punishment or euthanasia being misused, you should fear for trans people, mentally ill, homeless, everybody. I don't know what you mean by a "valid reason" to execute somebody. Even the few pro death penalty arguments I entertain always lead me back to my original position. There's maybe one person who "needs" to be executed, because they "know too much" when they really shouldn't and they're a national security threat running amok right now. And even that's just because I don't know WTF else you do about somebody like that.
I think I messed something up at the last part. I meant I can see a valid reason to worry. Worrying that another halocaust could happen. I was probably trying to do that thing again where I try editing something but forgot to include some stuff due to how I was trying to adjust it. lol
If I were to make even one exception for the death penalty, then that just means I believe in the death penalty...
Are there going to be teachers patrolling the playground to stop all those kids playing pretend?
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~
They should probably patrol to keep you 1000 feet away
Well, "recess duty" is a thing, Rakuen. So, actually, yes, there's usually a teacher patrolling the playground making sure the kids follow the rules.
Maybe he didn't go to school...
Well, not in America.
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