29-05-2025
Map Shows States With Most Furry Conventions
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Furries have recently faced legislative backlash in Texas, where House Bill 4814 would "prohibit any non-human behavior by a student, including presenting himself or herself, on days other than exempt days, as anything other than a human being."
New convention center data has revealed that Texas is among the states with the largest number of furry events scheduled for the 2025 calendar year.
Why It Matters
Furries are a subculture of people who enjoy dressing up as and impersonating animals, and in rare cases, choose to self-identify as belonging to a non-human species.
Following a "furry related incident" in the Smithville, Texas school district, state legislators banned "non-human behavior" like using a litter box, wearing leashes, collars or false tails, "barking, meowing, hissing, or other animal noises that are not human speech" and "licking oneself or others for the purpose of grooming."
What To Know
Texas has emerged as one of the furriest states in the union, hosting four furry events in one year across several different cities, including Dallas, Houston, and Austin.
Washington, California, and North Carolina also led the community with four conventions each, according to data from a convention aggregator.
Wisconsin has three scheduled, as does Oregon, making the West Coast the most active area for the furry subculture. Twenty-three states did not appear to be hosting any conventions. However, that still means that the majority of states in the union will hold furry gatherings this year.
No conventions were recorded in Alaska, Hawaii, or Puerto Rico, meaning that all gatherings were confined to the U.S. mainland.
What People Are Saying
Texas Representative Stan Gerdes said in response to reports of furry activity in school: "I can't believe we have to do this, but we cannot allow these types of roleplaying distractions to affect our students who are trying to learn or our teachers and administrators who are trying to teach. We just have to keep this nonsense out of our schools."
He continued: "I fully expect the subculture to show up in full furry vengeance at the committee hearing. But just to be clear—they won't be getting any litter boxes in the Texas Capitol. They'll have to use the regular restrooms like the humans they are."
What Happens Next
As of May, five furry conventions have been announced across four different states for 2026, in Washington, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Ohio.
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