Video emerges showing Texas drag bill writer wearing drape

The Texas legislator behind a bill to restrict drag queens appears to have dressed in drag shows himself when he was a student.

The video that appeared on Twitter and TikTok this week seems to be showing Texas Rep. Nate Schatzline, a Republican, jumping, running, and dancing in a park while wearing a black sequined dress and a red-eyed mask. At the end of the roughly 90-second video that plays for the song “Sexy Lady” by Xavi Moula, the names of the four members are revealed, including Schatzline, whose character is named “Virgin”.

“Nate Schatzline attacked the LGBT community, transgender people, especially children, with his whole personality, and promised to ban drag shows in Texas,” wrote a Twitter user who did not respond to a request for comment. “Here’s Nate… in clothes.”

Schatzline, a first-term state representative and former pastor, did not immediately respond to an NBC News request for comment. However, in a tweet posted on Tuesday, he appeared to have confirmed his involvement in the video.

“Are you really crazy about me wearing a dress as a joke back in school for a theater project? Yes, this is not a transvestite sexually explicit show… lol you will all be playing NOTHING,” he wrote.

While Schatzline’s performance in the video matches most dictionary definitions of the word “drag and drop”, it’s unclear if it will be banned under legislation introduced by Schatzline in January.

Legislation HB 1266 seeks to amend the Texas Business and Commerce Code of Conduct to define a location where “drag performance” and “indoor alcoholic beverages are permitted” as a “sex-oriented business.” Such businesses, according to the state code, “cannot allow persons under 18 years of age to enter the premises of the enterprise.”

Mera defines drag as “a performance in which the performer displays a gender identity that is different from that of the performer assigned at birth through the use of clothing, makeup, or other physical markers, and sings, lip-syncs, dances, or otherwise performs in front of an audience for entertainment” . It also states that sexually oriented businesses can be categorized as “a nightclub, bar, restaurant, or other commercial establishment that provides an audience of two or more people with drag and drop.”

Rep. Nate Schatzline
Texas State Representative Nate Schatzline.Nate Schatzline / via Twitter

Legislators in at least a dozen other states have proposed laws that would similarly restrict drag-and-drop performances, according to an NBC News analysis. Supporters of the bills say they are necessary to protect children from inappropriate entertainment. Critics claim that they are unfairly targeting an art form that is closely associated with the LGBT community and mistakenly consider all drag performances to be obscene.

The appearance of Schatzline’s video comes days after an image of what appears to be Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee dressed in high school sportswear was posted on Reddit and Twitter. Lee’s spokeswoman, Jade Cooper Byers, did not confirm if it was really Lee in the yearbook photo, having previously told NBC News in an email that “any attempt to combine this major issue with light-hearted school traditions is dishonest and disrespectful to Tennessee families.” “.

Answering questions from reporters on Monday, Lee, a Republican, confirmed that he will sign a recently passed bill that criminalizes drag performances in public and in front of children in the state.

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