Welcome to Ohio where the state legislature is continuing its efforts to ban transgender people--to make me illegal.
Reintroduced this week, the proposed drag ban. But the actual name of the bill is, the Indecent Exposure Modernization Act.
Who is labeled indecent?
“Performers or entertainers who exhibit a gender identity that is different from the performer's or entertainer's biological sex using clothing, makeup, prosthetic or imitation genitals or breasts, or other physical markers”
So, basically anyone who publically performs wearing clothes different than their “biological sex”.
Let’s say, hypothetically, there was a person assigned male at birth… who is a pastor and a transgender woman… who preaches in a dress while wearing makeup… am I indecent?
Defining someone by their biological sex is indecent.
The bill defines biological sex as “sex chromosomes, naturally occurring sex hormones, gonads, and nonambiguous internal and external genitalia present at birth, without regard to an individual's psychological, chosen, or subjective experience of gender.”
This law legally defines a person by their gonads and then makes it a criminal offense to dress in a way culturally opposite of that, in disregard of who a person truly is, not by what they have between their legs, but who they are in their mind, heart, and spirit.
Representatives Angela King and Josh Williams, you are indecent.
