FURRIES Act filed by Texas lawmakers targets non-human student behavior in schools
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The bill aims to ban students from non-human behavior with exceptions for days designated for costumes like Halloween.

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The Forbidding Unlawful Representation of Roleplaying in Education, or FURRIES, Act, filed by Austin-area Republican State Rep. Stan Gerdes, would “prohibit any non-human behavior by a student, including presenting himself or herself, on days other than exempt days, as anything other than a human being.”

The law would allow for exempt days, such as Halloween and other school dress-up days.

The law defines “non-human” behavior as “any type of behavior or accessory displayed by a student in a school district other than behaviors or accessories typically displayed by a member of the homo sapiens species,” with provided examples being:

Using a litter box for the passing of stool, urine or other human byproducts

A personal or outward display, except during a school play or by a school mascot, through surgical or superficial means of features that are non-human such as using tails, leashes, collars or other accessories designed for pets

Using fur, other than naturally occurring human hair or a wig made to look like human hair

Artificial, animal-like ears

Other physiological features that have not historically been assigned to the human race through a means of natural biological development

Students who bark, meow, hiss or make other animal noises that are not human speech

Licking oneself or others for the purpose of grooming or maintenance.

  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    241·
    9 hours ago

    Should the government regulate space aliens in school too? Why not target the infinity of scenarios that never happens, or should we just skip straight to mandating that school is only for nazi salutes?

    • TXL@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      31·
      8 hours ago

      Don’t American students already heil and recite oaths to a flag regularly?

          • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            2·
            3 hours ago

            Bellamy salute

            this was before the Nazi’s and facists ruined it.

            You might also be interested to know that the Charlie Chaplin style of mustache was the most popular in world until Hitler wore it.

            • superkret@feddit.orgEnglish
              1·
              2 hours ago

              AFAIK it was the maximum amount of beard allowed for soldiers at the end of World War 1, because of the gas masks.
              So millions of men returned from the war with that moustache.