So, for example, Viola / Cesario in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Who needs great literature? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_(Twelfth_Night)

And regarding "the other biological sex"... It is not at all simple to define biological gender in a such a way that there are only two of them. Genitalia, hormones, and chromosome patterns are far from sufficient. In many cases, the gender assigned at birth is arbitrary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex

A bunch of movies off hand that weren't mentioned elsewhere. This doesn't include tv shows, the two I remember off hand are M*A*S*H and The Kids in the Hall.

1999: Hilary Swank won best actress for Boys Don't Cry.

1982: Julie Andrews nominated for Victor/Victoria

1983: Barbara Streisand in Yentl -- before she became the effect.

1996: Robin Williams and Gene Hackman in The Birdcage.

1995: Patrick Swayze in To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

1994: Mignight in the Garden of Good and Evil directed by Clint Eastwood

1992: The Crying Game

The government can take my VHS copy of The Nutty Professor from my cold, dead hands. It won an Academy Award!

What are you in for?

Multiple homicide, you?

Watching Mrs doubtfire

*horrified gasps

The point is to dehumanize those who oppose them, and putting someone on a sex offender registry, in jail, and hitting them with crippling debt is a sure fire way to do it, even if it’s thrown out in court later.

>> Earlier this year, he said porn and human trafficking were linked, adding that "shutting down the porn industry would be a crushing blow to the human trafficking industry."

I doubt this logic, but open to arguments, as I'm not an expert.

They're conservatives, so they dont care about rules and laws. Thats their entire world view: rules are for others, protections are for them.

I think this is an exceedingly short-sighted view of something that can and will prove to be an increasingly existential challenge to HNs existence. States are already pushing towards and have passed age verification laws for example with supreme court signoff. This is just a continuation and the next step down that pathway. In any other year I would agree with you that this is just a single thing pushed by a loon that would be shut down in court. If these laws get passed and anything tangentially related to transgender stuff is viewed as obscene are you and the rest of HN prepared to either censor the site or deal with the consequences of being in the political crosshairs?

You're so unprepared for the emerging political reality in the US it almost looks intentional.

It's true that US state legislators propose a lot of whackjob bills that get exploited for headlines and then die. They usually don't have 5 co-sponsors, though, not even out of 110 in a chamber.

> includes any content, digital, streamed, or otherwise distributed on the internet, the primary purpose of which is to sexually arouse or gratify, including videos, erotica, magazines, stories, manga, material generated by artificial intelligence, live feeds, or sound clips.

So I assume this will also include OF, dark romance books, online blogs, shared texts in group chats?

It says right there in the article: "The bill would require internet service providers in Michigan to use filters to prevent people from seeing the prohibited material. "

VPNs do exist, but still.

Use/distribution of any VPN tool is 100-500k penalty per

Only a matter of time before they outlaw VPNs.

Of course! Nothing says "small government" like going through every person's internet history and DVD collection to find things they personally don't like and making people a criminal because of them.

His Wikipedia Page is something to behold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Schriver

> During his tenure in the Michigan legislature, he has called for a ban on hormonal birth control,[3] pornography,[4][5] same-sex marriage and gender-affirming care for adults,[6] as well as promoted the Great Replacement conspiracy theory.[7]

And please take a look at the picture. It's something else.

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