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This is not actually about pornographic content. Florida already had laws to protect from actually obscene material.
Drag queen story time and drag acts that do not contain nudity are not pornographic.
Correct. Misleading wording like this is how they manage to trick ignorant people into supporting hateful laws like this one - assuming they're not supporting these laws precisely because they're hateful.
The LGBTQ+ community (including drag queens) absolutely and unequivocally does NOT support pedophilia in any form. This includes exposing children to pornographic material. That's fucking canon and you can quote me on that shit.
There's some videos floating around of drag shows with sensual dancing with children present. I'm not saying all Drag presentations are like this, but maybe the law should've been more specific to these kinds of situations.
Or, very unorthodox idea I know, but how about parents check what kind of show they're attending with their children?
This is exactly it. It's about parental responsibility. You wouldn't play a movie for a child without checking the rating. And, if you do, it's not the director's fault that little Timmy saw The Virgin Suicides.
The movie thing is also quite an apt example. It is totally legal for a child to see an R-rated movie with their parent. R rated movies are allowed to have nudity, simulated sex scenes, etc etc etc. Much more inappropriate for a child than being read an age-approriate story by a drag queen or seeing someone in drag dancing and singing on stage. But this law about drag performance makes no exceptions for parental responsibility. A parent could conceivably be convicted of a misdemeanor for taking their child to a family friendly drag show.
And they do, parents who actually take their kids to story tone or shows aren't the ones that are upset.
The people who are upset (terrified) are grandma death and uncle Karl. They live in kansas, they've never seen or spoken to an actual trans person, yet they open their trash can lids slowly because they think one is inevitably "gonna jump out and bite 'em!". Ignorance is a plague.
Trans people are people.