Arkansas Introduces Heinous Anti-LGBTQ Bill Targeting Trans People

The bill aims to classify Drag shows as “Adult Entertainment” similarly to Adult theaters, strip clubs and sex shops.

Conservative legislators have resurrected archaic ideologies in order to weaponize the law against LGBTQ performers and trans or non-binary people in society, specifically when it comes to strict dress codes.

According to the Republican leaders introducing SB43, the bill not only aims to define drag shows exclusively as adult entertainment, but goes as far to define drag as follows:

“Exhibits a gender identity that is different from the performer’s gender assigned at birth using clothing, makeup, or other accessories that are traditionally worn by members of and are meant to exaggerate the gender identity of the performer’s opposite sex.”

Older generations of LGBTQ+ people will remember the shameful laws impacting the community throughout the 60’s and 70’s that saw trans people and drag performers being arrested and prosecuted for public indecency if they were wearing more than two articles of clothing intended solely to be worn by a member of the opposite sex. In that…