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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

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!

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.

Obsolete laws abound here in the UK - only recently was a law repealed that stated taxis must carry a bail of hay - harks back to horse-drawn carriages. I also heard of another law repealed in my life time that allowed any MacDonald found in England to be shot of sight (1745 ordnance - Jacobite Rebellion) Thankfully I never heard of either of them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.

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

Love, Robyn Katie

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

Love, Robyn Katie

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