Oakland moves to legalize cross-dressing

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Oakland moves to legalize cross-dressing

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OAKLAND — More than 130 years after city leaders made it illegal to appear in public dressed "in the attire of a person of the opposite sex," Oakland finally moved Tuesday toward taking a little-known ordinance against cross-dressing off its books.

City Council members voted 7-0 in a first vote on removing the language in question from Oakland's municipal code, in what at-large City Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan called an important change given how such ordinances have been used in the past.

A second and final vote is scheduled for May 18.

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Maybe, just maybe we are makeing a little head way and someday people will treat us just like anyone else =D>
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God forbid, we let women run around in top hats & tailcoats, we'll be up to our eyeballs in anarchy, I tellya!!!!!! There oughta be a law! :mrgreen:
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Yes, I've been an Oakland scofflaw for what? Ten years! Sashaying down the boulevards, flaunting that 1879 law for all it was worth.

Seriously--I'm certainly aware that laws like that one used to be on the books, but I'd thought they'd all been amended by now. Guess not.
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Obsolete laws abound here in the UK - only recently was a law repealed that stated taxis must carry a bail of hay - harks back to horse-drawn carriages. I also heard of another law repealed in my life time that allowed any MacDonald found in England to be shot of sight (1745 ordnance - Jacobite Rebellion) Thankfully I never heard of either of them being enforced.
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Wonder how many other municipalities have such laws lying around in their lawbooks that we don't know about?

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Robyn Katie wrote:Wonder how many other municipalities have such laws lying around in their lawbooks that we don't know about?

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