The lack of clarity in state Rep. Nate Schatzline's anti-drag law would allow for...
’s Tarrant County district, residents in drag are not standing on street corners waving rainbow flags and importuning youngsters to switch genderDrag queens are not , serving chips and salsa at Evita’s Mexican Restaurant in Blue Mound or a Phat Breakfast Burrito at Big Azz Burritos in Saginaw. You can pick up cold and allergy medicine at Haslet Pharmacy, stay at Residence Inn by Marriott in Haslet or enjoy the Laredo Burger at Haslet’s Texan Diner without encountering a drag performer .
, legislation that would classify establishments that feature drag shows as “sexually oriented businesses.” Schatzline’s bill is one of four filed by Texas Republicans aimed at establishments that allow performers to wear clothes or makeup that exhibit, in the words of HB 1266, a “gender identity that is different than the performer’s gender assigned at birth.”
The son of evangelical ministers, Schatzline himself is a former pastor and football coach . A graduate of Southwest Assemblies of God University in Waxahachie and Liberty University in Virginia, he is the founder of For Liberty and Justice, an organization “dedicated to mobilizing the local church to see reformation in government.”
Shakespeare himself might have run afoul of Schatzline’s scrutiny. Juliet, Lady Macbeth, Cleopatra and every other female character who trod the boards in the 16th and 17th centuries was actually a young man or a boy, their dresses “dragging.” The Bard and his immediate successors had to deal with “pestering Puritans” seeking to shut down “stage plays of mirth and levity,” while we have zealots intent on curbing the rights of men and women who dare to depart from traditional gender norms.
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