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Re:Marsha P Johnson: A Chrome extension to highlight trans e... by pessimizer on Friday February 14, 2025 @05:01PM (#43053584)
If that's the most obvious example:

> The problem is, the law technically never existed. Instead, accounts suggest that police generally used old, often unrelated laws to target LGBT people throughout the 1940s, ‘50s and ‘60s.

1st hit: https://www.history.com/news/stonewall-riots-lgbtq-drag-thre...

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Re:Marsha P Johnson: A Chrome extension to highlight trans e... by gumby271 on Saturday February 15, 2025 @08:26AM (#43058323)
I never said it was a law, it's a rule of thumb used by police to harass and arrest gender non-conforming people. You seem determined to find some formal law that made their existence illegal, and I'm curious why.
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