The Forbidding Unlawful Representation of Roleplaying in Education, or FURRIES, Act, filed by Austin-area Republican State Rep. Stan Gerdes, would “prohibit any non-human behavior by a student, including presenting himself or herself, on days other than exempt days, as anything other than a human being.”

The law would allow for exempt days, such as Halloween and other school dress-up days.

The law defines “non-human” behavior as “any type of behavior or accessory displayed by a student in a school district other than behaviors or accessories typically displayed by a member of the homo sapiens species,” with provided examples being:

Using a litter box for the passing of stool, urine or other human byproducts

A personal or outward display, except during a school play or by a school mascot, through surgical or superficial means of features that are non-human such as using tails, leashes, collars or other accessories designed for pets

Using fur, other than naturally occurring human hair or a wig made to look like human hair

Artificial, animal-like ears

Other physiological features that have not historically been assigned to the human race through a means of natural biological development

Students who bark, meow, hiss or make other animal noises that are not human speech

Licking oneself or others for the purpose of grooming or maintenance.

  • yoriaiko@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    I bark at them using my very human vocal cords (I don’t even have any other). Prove me on court that I was not using human vocal cords to bark. Or maybe I was using totally non-human made recording-speaker device?

    Or maybe my 1.7m tall fursuit was designed to be weared by my cat? No way even lololong house cat could be that big. (lie, I don’t own a fursuit, in any size, but point still apply).

    Oh I know! Some tailed buttplugs were totally designed for pets and it is all about being pet care!

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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      3 days ago

      tailed buttplugs

      The whole comment aside, just for those unaware, if you see someone with a tail in public, or just anywhere outside of sex-centered environment, it’s almost surely a belt.

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            17 hours ago

            non pants based attire would most definitely allow for butt plug based tail shenanigans. Though you would still have to be quite silly for that one to get anywhere.

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              16 hours ago

              It never was about being silly or not, but being able to be silly or being enforced to not be silly.

              Also about not letting anyone dictate what is or is not silly tier legal.

              even funnier when itself goes silly - such as silly law from above, punctured by my first comment above, how silly law trying to enforce not being silly on clothes and personal, unharmful expression.

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        3 days ago

        Saw enough memes and internet stories, where some silly joker pulled such tail in public and it was not belt. So many stories, I’m nearly sure at least 1% of them were true.

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      3 days ago

      tailed buttplugs were totally designed for pets

      Now o want to see them try to debate this