Is There a Law Making Me Eat Cake?

Historians used to think that if a practice was outlawed or very, very harshly punished, it happened often enough that people were scared about it. But now they're more sceptical of this because laws are placed upon a landscape of human desire and action - otherwise you don't really need to make a law about it. There is a long history in America of legislatures passing laws banning things that never happened as a way to sort of try to whip moral panics, righti say? The example i always find most salient, n that iv occasionally used in my writing, is there are multiple states in america that have made it a crime for transpeople to sneak around in the bathroom where they