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Arkansas Lawmakers Want You to Sue Over Your Childhood Haircut

Behold! I espouse my gender identity with scissors and comb. Or lack thereof.

Tucker Lieberman
9 min readMar 20, 2025
bottom half of a bearded face, a selfie shared on WhatsApp. The recipient left a laughing emoji on the selfie.
My WhatsApp

Not everyone understands the hairstyle I’m going for.

Tucker is kind of bald. The inch-long hairs on the top of his head are standing on end.

But come on, you’ve seen it before.

video still from Back to the Future. Doc Brown with shaggy white hair blowing in the wind. Marty standing next to him. Both look astonished. Doc Brown holds a mad scientist contraption.
Back to the Future — IMDB
video still from Back to the Future. Doc Brown making a surprised and terrified face. He has shaggy white hair blowing forward into his face.
Back to the Future — IMDB
same photo of Tucker, now inserted into a WhatsApp chat with his self-commentary: Every day I look more n more like Doc Brown from Back to the Future. The recipient responded with a laughing emoji.

I want to show you Arkansas House Bill 1668 (PDF), engrossed today. It’s still in progress, and whether it will pass remains to be seen.

The bill says that someone’s “sex organs, chromosomes, and endogenous profiles” determine their “biological sex,” which in turn has a corresponding “gender identity” that can manifest through “clothing, pronouns, hairstyle, and name” and…

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Tucker Lieberman
Tucker Lieberman

Written by Tucker Lieberman

Cult classic. Author of the novel "Most Famous Short Film of All Time." Editor for Prism & Pen and Identity Current. tuckerlieberman.com

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