In January, Texas state Rep. Nate Schatzline introduced a bill that would restrict drag performances in the state. A recently surfaced video on social media appears to show the lawmaker dressed in drag as a student.
to define a venue that hosts a “drag performance” and “authorizes on-premises consumption of alcoholic beverages” as a “sexually oriented business.” Such businesses, according to the state code, “may not allow an individual younger than 18 years of age to enter the premises of the business.”
The measure defines a drag performance as “a performance in which a performer exhibits a gender identity that is different than the performer’s gender assigned at birth using clothing, makeup, or other physical markers and sings, lip syncs, dances, or otherwise performs before an audience for entertainment.
as a high school student was shared on Reddit and Twitter. Lee’s press secretary, Jade Cooper Byers, did not confirm whether it is Lee in the yearbook photo, previously telling NBC News in an email that “any attempt to conflate this serious issue with lighthearted school traditions is dishonest and disrespectful to Tennessee families.”that he would sign a recently passed bill that would criminalize drag performances in public and in front of children in the state.
The video of the Texas lawmaker also comes about a month after an image emerged on social media that appeared to show embattled
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