My question is who decides if a hair cut conforms to gender stereotypes / norms.  I somehow doubt the 1970s /1980s long shoulder length but parted and swept back blow dried hairstyles for guys would pass the test if religious conservatives get to say what is acceptable?  What about women with cancer who are taking treatments for that cancer and lost their hair or are growing it back?  Can the doctor be sued who prescribed the treatments?  It is like trans people using the bathrooms of gender identity, who decides if that woman is feminine enough for the girl’s bathroom or that man manly enough for the boy’s bathroom?  I have told everyone while the hell spawn could have any hair they wanted including long hair I was required to have a crew cut or nearly bald hairstyle as punishment for even existing in a time when everyone was wearing their hair long.  What about parents rights? You know the reason all media with LGBTQ+ content must be removed from schools and all libraries, because some parents complain their kids might see it?    Do the progressives or the former hippies get to allow their boy children to have long hair or their girls short hair?  See how this can’t work, can’t be allowed.   People lose all autonomy and individual rights to express themselves as they want to.  It is again an attempt to return to the straight cis white Christian male dominated society of the 1950s.  Women were subservient to men and needed their permission for most things outside the home.   Raping your wife, forcing her to have sex against her will was legal as she had to perform her wifely duties.  Non-white people knew their place and stayed there.  The entire LGBTQ+ were hidden in their closets too frighted to be found out to demand their equality and rights.  That is the world they want and are trying to create using the cover of trans people are harming the children.  It is why they attacked drag queens so violently, they violate that 1950s norms.  They are desperate to enforce a nearly religious observance of their preferred way to live based mostly on religion.  Look at the bios of nearly every one of the republicans pushing these things and you see they are from a fundamentalist conservative religious faith that wants to control how other people live.  Not to bring others closer to their godlike Rev Ed Trevors does, but to make themselves feel better about things and the idea that if they make all the people they don’t like, all the acts they don’t like to go away their god will praise them, give them an afterlife life, and their god will be so please with them he will come back right away to get them.  Their god is a god of anger and smiting.    He is not a loving god who loves people as they are or want to be.   Hugs

Republicans in the Arkansas state legislature have introduced legislation that would make it effectively illegal for hairdressers to give gender-based haircuts to people of the opposite gender. The bill would allow the hairdressers to be sued if the haircut given does not conform with the gender assigned to a person at birth. This is reminiscent of the government-approved haircuts in North Korea, and equally as oppressive. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what’s happening.