Republican states' drag shows

*Republican legislators introduce new laws to crack down on drag shows.*

The article says that most of these bills go much further than what you would think that means: they "define a drag performer as someone performing while using dress, makeup and mannerisms associated with a gender other than the one assigned to [per] at birth." This means that _any_ performance by a trans person would be banned. Even a talk about any subject could be a "performance".

This is typical of the dishonesty of right-wing extremists, whose repressive laws are often described as prohibiting something very specific but create the opportunity to prohibit a lot more. Consider critical race theory — a field of research for historians, some of whom promote teaching methods that face criticism in academia. Republicans have passed laws that purport to prohibit teaching critical race theory in primary and secondary school, which never happens, but actually prohibit nearly any teaching about systemic racism.