Alabama House Majority Leader Scott Stassagen (R-Hartselle) said he plans to reintroduce a bill to ban underage drag shows next session.

The law would ban “sexual or gender-oriented material that knowingly exposes minors to persons wearing sexually revealing, exaggerated, or provocative clothing or costumes, or stripping, or engaging in lewd or lascivious dancing, presentations, or activities in elementary, middle, and high schools, public libraries, and other public places where minors are expected and known to be present without parental consent.”

The House State Government Committee was moving forward with the bill but was unable to pass it before the end of the session.

Stadthagen discussed the issue on WVNN's “Yaffe Program” on Wednesday.

“I'm very disappointed that I didn't cross the finish line,” Stadthagen said, “so next year I'll definitely try again.”

The Majority Leader said the law is intended to protect children from material that is deemed sexually inappropriate.

“[W]”We don't really care what kind of harassment adults do behind closed doors,” he argued, “but when you start indoctrinating kids and putting them in those situations, those environments, exposing them to it, then we have to draw the line and do something.”

“We've seen them holding events all over the state recently,” he added, “and again, if it's in an adult setting, I don't have a problem with it. But when you bring kids in and try to brainwash them and get them to accept this as normal, that's when you have a problem.”

Staathagen also believes the Supreme Court will uphold another Alabama law banning gender-reassignment drugs and surgery for minors.

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“At the end of the day, it's a surgery done on a child and it can't be undone,” he explained. “It ruins their lives and you hear stories of kids committing suicide because of these problems. Nothing will send them into a deeper hole of depression than having sex reassignment surgery and then regretting it.”

The Supreme Court announced this week that it will hear a case involving a Tennessee law similar to Alabama's that restricts puberty-suppressing drugs and hormone therapy for transgender minors.

Stadthagen stressed that it is natural for minors to not be ready to make such decisions.

“You can't get a tattoo at 14,” he says. “You can't drink alcohol. You can't smoke cigarettes. You shouldn't be able to change your sexuality like that. I mean, if you're an adult and you want to do it, that's your choice. But I think the Supreme Court will uphold it and it will become law and there won't be any more issues.”

Yaffe is a contributing writer for Yellow Hammer News and hosts “The Yaffe Program” weekdays from 9-11 a.m. WhistlerYou can follow him on X @Yaffe