But Texas drag queen Kylee Ohara Fatale sees through the rhetoric – she says it’s a “distraction technique” to mask the “real target”.
“That is, of course, to attack the trans community as well as trans youth,” Kylee tells PinkNews.
“These bills are not to protect children as they say because, if that was the case, we shouldn’t be having conversion therapy.”
“We wouldn’t have Hooters being allowed to let children into their restaurant … restaurants that are showing sexualised images and sexualised objects that kids can still go to these days.”
“For me, drag is a job. At the end of the day, if God forbid, knock on wood, these drag bills passed and I’m out of a job, it’s not going to affect how I exist.
“If these bills pass, for most trans people, it is literally going to affect how they exist. It’s basically making being trans illegal. It’s the erasure of the trans community.”