You're listening to the microversion of the Savage Love Cast at Savage.loaf.

So, the governor of Tennessee, Billy, signed that state's anti-drag bill into law last week.

It is now a crime punishable by up to six years in prison for repeat offenses to do drag anywhere

a child might see you in Tennessee, even in Nashville. Where every day children can watch

entire Bachelorette parties puke off the backs of party tractors rolling up and down city streets.

This new law could also make it illegal for a trans person to leave the house dressed in their own

clothing. The law is ambiguous in how to enforce the law, whether a raid drag bars to make sure everyone

in them is over 21 or harass trans people seen in public or to do spot general checks on,

I guess, everybody to make sure some passing trans person didn't slip out of the house undetected.

That's going to be left up to local police departments in Tennessee, which all but guarantees

that the law will be used to harass trans people in public and drag performers in clubs.

This bill, as I pointed out at the top of last week's show, this clearly unconstitutional law

was signed by Bill Lee, who, also to sign a monstrous law criminalizing gender-affirming

care for minors, and Bill Lee once appeared in drag in public at a school and,

boy oh boy, girl oh girl, governor Lee, she does not like being asked about what she done

did in 1977. But a press event, the governor was confronted with that photo and he called any

comparison between the drag show bill and a yearbook snapshot ridiculous. What a ridiculous

ridiculous question that is conflating something like that to sexualized

entertainment in front of children, which is a very serious subject. Okay, it's all harmless

hijinks when they do it. Remember when Rudy Giuliani dressed in drag and Donald Trump for laughs

pretended to sexually assault him? High jinks when they do it badly sexualized performance when

actual drag queens do it better. If you've seen the photo of governor Lee and drag and you must

...