Library cancels trans speaker after Montana bans drag readings

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Library cancels trans speaker after Montana bans drag readings

By AMY BETH HANSON
June 2, 2023

Montana’s new law banning drag reading events at public libraries has led to the cancellation of a Native American transgender speaker in a southwestern Montana city on Friday.

The Butte-Silver Bow Public Library canceled its “First Friday” speaker, Adria Jawort, at the recommendation of county attorneys, library director Stef Johnson said in a statement on the library’s website.

On Monday, Jawort posted online that she was going to do an LGBTQ and two-spirit history lecture at a library on Friday. “Two-spirit” is a Native American term for people with both male and female spirits.

The speech might be illegal in Montana “as a flamboyantly dressed trans woman,” she posted. On Thursday she said her Tweet was meant to mock the law that bans drag reading events at public schools and libraries. Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte signed it on May 22 and it took effect immediately.

Under the law, “drag queen” is defined as a performer who adopts a “flamboyant ... feminine persona ...

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[progressoid]

1. So...Freedom of Speech "shall" be infringed?

[2naSalit]

2. Apparently.

[Walleye]

3. So they are basically enforcing a state law that is a dress code

What a bunch of Karens

[TreasonousBastard]

4. The "Four Freedoms" are now officially dead and can be buried.

[tulipsandroses]

5. So who decides what is flamboyant? So if a trans woman is dressed in a business pants suit is that

flamboyant? I had a teacher who just happened to be a trans woman when I was in college. Is it now illegal now for trans teachers to do their jobs at public schools and colleges?