A Texas bill, known as the FURRIES Act, would ban non-human behaviors in public schools, including the use of litter boxes and wearing animal accessories.

Rep. Stan Gerdes, the bill’s author, claimed schools were providing litter boxes for students acting as “furries.”

When pressed, Gerdes could not find an example. The bill was left pending in committee.

  • KiwiFlavor@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    Beyond the blatant stupidity of the bill, the most concerning part is the definition of “non-human behavior.” I would not be surprised if some schools interpreted queer people, those with disabilites, and those from minority ethnic, religious, or racial groups to be exhibitong “non-human behaviors.” These groups have already been dehumanized historically.

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      2 months ago

      Absolutely. Any vague language has a way of being misinterpreted by the most fanatical and used for evil.

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    2 months ago

    In a few years, this guy will probably get picked up for human trafficking, CSAM, soliciting sex from minors or some other degenerate activity.

    Anybody remember that shit stain from FL, Matt Gaetz?

    In 2020, Gaetz was accused of child sex trafficking[a] and statutory rape. After an investigation, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) decided not to charge him. In December 2024, the House Ethics Committee released a report which found evidence that Gaetz paid for sex—including with a 17-year-old—and abused illegal drugs during his tenure in the U.S. House of Representatives. The committee report did not find sufficient evidence that he had not engaged in sex trafficking as defined in federal law.[2]

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Gaetz

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    2 months ago

    Need a new Texas bill banning Rep. Stan Gerdes from being 10 miles near any school because dude is a fucking creep.

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    2 months ago

    Of course not. Like most of their “anti-woke” ideas, they are based on lofty ideas.

    They do this to misdirect you from the real problems, those that they usually caused all by themselves.

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    At no point I do I think bullying should be allowed in schools but the reality is that if a kid was demanding a litter box in which to relieve themselves, they would get ostracized, bullied into oblivion, and that behavior would stop right away. No legislation required. Humans have a way of self correcting themselves in group environments. It’s an evolutionary trait from our days as tribes.

    Again, bullying is a huge problem that needs to be taken far more seriously in our school systems… Buuuut, humans will act like humans, especially human children, when it comes down to things way outside the norm. Its just the way we are at this stage in evolution.

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    2 months ago

    To be clear, cat litter buckets in classrooms is a real thing in some schools but only to use in active shooter lockdowns if needed. When a classroom of kids is trapped for hours, someone will need to poop, and they’re going to want to cover up it and not smell it the whole time. So unfortunately there’s a perfectly valid reason for kids to poop in litter buckets at schools that these conspiracists, who are probably the same nutjobs who think school shootings are fake, are twisting into furry accommodation.