Federal judge sides with West Texas A&M University president who canceled campus drag show

have successfully blocked laws aimed at banning or limiting drag shows from going into effect. In June, a federal judge in Tennessee, appointed by former President Donald Trump, ruled the state’s drag ban is unconstitutional in its effort to suppress First Amendment-protected speech.

“FIRE strongly disagrees with the court’s approach to First Amendment analysis and its conclusions,” JT Morris, senior attorney for the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a national group representing the students that advocates for free speech on campuses, said in a statement. “We will appeal, and our fight for the expressive rights of these brave college students will continue.”

scheduled to take place on campus to raise money for The Trevor Project, a nonprofit that works to reduce suicides in the LGBTQ+ community. Wendler said drag shows “stereotype women in cartoon-like extremes for the amusement of others and discriminate against womanhood.”a free speech lawsuit arguing Wendler is “openly defying the Constitution,” by restricting drag performances on campus. Plaintiff’s claimed that drag performances are “expressive conduct,” protected by the First Amendment.

LGBTQ+ groups and performers made similar claims in another federal lawsuit that challenges a Texas law that restricts drag shows from being performed in front of children. U.S. District Judge David Hittner temporarily blocked the law, arguing that banning drag shows isBut Kacsmaryk offered a differing assessment in his Thursday order. He said the students’ definition of “expressive conduct” failed to meet the necessary standards to “decide a Free Speech campus case.

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