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missionaries to Hawaii introduced biblical laws to the lands in the 1820s under their influence Hawaii's first anti-isodomy law was passed in 1850 so there used to be anti-isodomy laws here they know what but before the missionaries got here it wasn't that way it was something that was okay in culture and normal but see when God's laws get thundered forth and God's laws get preached then things start to change but you know what they're heading back in the wrong direction it's heading back in the wrong direction right now these laws led to the social stigmatization of the mahou in Hawaii beginning in the mid-1960s the Honolulu City Council can you imagine this happening now required trans women to wear a badge identifying themselves as so haven't things changed here in Hawaii they don't do that anymore do they and the Hawaiian City Council is probably so liberal right now they're probably all themselves but an American artist George Bittles Tahitian journal from 1920 to 1922 he writes about several mahou friends of their role and native Tahitian society and the persecution of mahou friend Napua who fled Tahiti due to colonial French laws that sent mahou and homosexuals to hard labor and prison so back then it was you know in the 1920s as far back as the 1920s it was it was wrong and so even in 1960 they had to wear a badge that said hey I'm a male even though there were some kind of you