can i be honest for a second? i think its kinda dumb to attribute the law proposed in texas for that would ban drag queens from public spaces, and by extension any visibly transgender woman from public spaces, to arguments abt kink at pride. there has been a backlash against trans rights brewing for many years. and, notably drag queens sort of have never been a main focus of the "but there are children and nonconsenting people at pride events" sort of arguments. trans people have always been targetted as being uniquely corrupting for children to be around, its never needed the help of this stupid cyclical discourse we have every summer on tumblr. its been around before it, just as vitriolic and hateful, and itll be around after it, same as always. this is pretty obviously just riding the coattails of other successful anti woman and anti trans legislation getting passed, as well as being empowered by the growth of anti trans hate movements on both the right and the left
id have to read the text of the proposed legislation to know for certain what language and ongoing discussions its trying to coopt, and i aint doing that right now bc im already on the verge of cutting my own arms open this afternoon. but even if that kind of "kink at pride" type language was present in the bill, like, its kind of obvious that this kind of legislation was coming down the pipes, with or without "kink at pride" arguments, lmfao. i think its kind of deeply stupid, for people to see fascist political opportunism aimed at scrubbing a vulnerable and widely reviled minority group from public life, after months of successfully targetting said minority group with legistlation that cuts them out of sports and healthcare, and say, "this is happening simply because yall said you didnt like the dogmen"