Drag Queen Story Hour, when a Drag Queen reads a children’s book to children in the public space of a public library in full view and hearing of anyone near where the reading takes place, was begun in 2015 by author and activist Michelle Tea in San Francisco because in all the story hours she brought her own child to, there were no books that included anyone like her daughter’s mother.
Although children may glean the lesson about diversity that such a reading might bring about by example of behavior, these readings are not like those sermonizing moments that ensue if you accidentally let a Jehovah witness, Mormon missionary, or itinerant preacher into your house, or just can’t get pass the street preacher so you can run into the store he is standing in front of to buy something simple and non-controversial like a container of milk
The book is one chosen from the children’s section of the library and, being as they are advertised in advance and take place where all such readings to children by adults take place, no one is forced to attend the reading just as no one is forced to attend when it is a pastor or police officer who does a reading.
There is no disco ball, flashing lights, or lip-synching. As far as many kids are concerned it is just a lady in a shiny dress reading just like the fire fighter had done the last time and they are just as interested in the personal sex lives (something most don’t even know is a thing) of the former as the latter.
At least that is what most people expect and receive at such an event because that is what they are.
However, in examining for the causes of the winter failures with the state’s independent electric power grid and school shootings, Texas politicians have seen that all other explanations of the causes of either or both pale in comparison to a Drag Queen reading Make Way for Ducklings.
And they are determined to act.
Within days of the school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, Representative Bryan Slaton, congressman from East Texas, announce he intended to “file legislation protecting kids from drag shows and other inappropriate displays as soon as the next legislative session begins.”
During the first weekend of Pride, there had been a number of libraries that held a Drag Queen Story Hour and Slaton sees these as “underage Texas children being subjected to inappropriate sexual content by adults,” referring to this as “part of a disturbing trend in which perverted adults are obsessed with sexualizing young children.”
There is no willfully uninformed rash judgment there.
Although not listing any, his office issued a statement that it “is currently researching our options but we believe there are several ways to ban this type of garbage.”
Stating that you intend to investigate perverted adults distributing garbage removes the pretense of impartiality of any investigation.
After Uvalde, conservatives sent around a viral meme and claimed that the shooter there was Transgender based on nothing more than a picture of a Trans woman who lived many states away and had no idea she was being identified as the shooter.
Rather than deal with the availability of guns that he had increased by signing open-carry and non-registration or training bills, Governor Greg Abbott jumped to mental illness as the cause of shootings while ignoring, as he referred to the shooter as mentally ill, that the shooter was able to buy a weapon and multiple rounds legally in Texas for immediate use because of laws Abbot signed.
Ted Cruz totally rejected gun control at the NRA Convention held just days after the shooting at Robb Elementary school and as funerals for the victims began, mocking the other Republicans that backed out of the event out of empathy and good taste.
A few weeks before midterm primary election in February, Governor Abbott ordered the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate families of transgender children receiving gender-affirming medical treatment claiming it is child abuse
His party needed votes and a monster under the bed to get them.
Slaton supports that idea and has announced that he will continue his fight to make sex-change therapies on minors “child abuse”.
These actions are so transparent that Harris County Civil Attorney Christian Menefee stated he will not follow the governor’s transgender investigation directives, as this could cause real harm.
As he explained,
“A main goal, I believe, is to make these families fearful of making decisions they believe to be in the best interest of their kids. And that helps achieve some of the outcome of what they’re trying to do. And when folks continue to amplify those positions, it just continues to put those families in fear.”
In Texas, Mass shootings will stop when Drag Queens are all rounded up so people can own as many guns as they so choose, hoping to be able to find one in the dark of winter when the grid fails, and the lights go out.
In the 1990s there had been 97 shootings at schools with Columbine being the big shocker.
From 2000 to 2009 there were over 90 school related shootings.
From 2010 to the month before the first Drag Queen Story Hour in June 2015, there were over 80 school related shootings.
In the 25 years preceding Drag Queen Story Hour, before the first Drag Queen opened a book and began to read to children, their own among them, there had already been 267 school related shootings.
This is not the best example of cause and effect for the representative to base ruining people’s lives on.
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