The law is SB252, and it also spells out many other provisions, such as not allowing "obscene matter" within 2,500 feet from schools.

This brings us back to 3 articles laws from the 1960s.

It explicitly targets "transvestite and transgender exposure, performance, or display"

The law that it applies the definition to is 61-8A-1. The penalties for "intentionally distributing, offering, or displaying to a minor any obscene matter" is 5 years in prison and $25,000.

remember that this law defines "transgender exposure" as "obscene matters"

They are no longer making pretense of targeting the drag community alone. Now they are explicitly targeting transgender people. Nebraska has recently done the same thing in dropping the pretense, although they don't explicitly spell out transgender people, just gender identity.

This is not "one lone senator submitting a crazy bill" anymore, and I want to confront that line of logic early.

We are now at 7 states with proposed drag bans.

Most have multiple sponsors.

This bill has 4 senate sponsors.

I don't think we can ignore the threat to the trans and drag communities these laws present. I worry that with the sheer number of anti-trans and anti-drag laws being proposed, and far right tactics to enforce those laws, we could see one or more passed.

Furthermore, if this bill passes, it would affect me personally. I travel to and through West Virginia fairly regularly, sometimes to hike with my son.

This bill could make it illegal for me to travel there with him.

Or even be in front of kids there period.