Arkansas Bill Targets 'Gender Nonconforming' Haircuts for Kids

https://www.newsweek.com/arkansas-bill-targets-gender-nonconforming-haircuts-kids-2048152?fbclid=IwY2xjawJNfMpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHUuTOPxV9C8GmkzEueJYmZkhngwPlwekfDPqjTAr_jp8BZzwLvSq6xNm7Q_aem_1CRFL5VhEJf4kxYoy6vy1w

No kidding. They're talking about a $10,000 fine for stylists who give women a short haircut.

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trollslayer · 46-50, M Best Comment

The Onion?

LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

@trollslayer I wish.

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@trollslayer I thought it was bonkers too. So I looked it up:

(3)
"Social transitioning" means any act by which a minor adopts
or espouses a gender identity that differs from the minor’s biological sex as
determined by the sex organs, chromosomes, and endogenous profiles of the
minor, including without limitation changes in clothing, pronouns, hairstyle,
and name.

https://arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Detail?id=hb1668

As a teenager I had a ponytail. That would presumably be actionable under this proposal.

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@ninalanyon I should make the point that I still think it's bonkers. But worse in a way. I was about to say that it seems that a substantial number of politicians are behaving like children. But when I look back at my early teenage years in the late 1960s it seems to me that we were more politically mature and also the adults making were less confrontational and much less tribal.