U. Texas System Bans Drag Shows in Campus Facilities
“If the board of regents needs to take further action to make this clear, we will do so”
This is an example of the pendulum swinging back in response to the last few years. Still, assuming that all of the people involved are adults, what’s the big deal?
The Texas Tribune reports:
University of Texas System bans drag shows in campus facilities
The University of Texas System announced Tuesday its universities are banned from sponsoring drag shows or hosting them in their facilities, a few weeks after the Texas A&M System’s board of regents approved a similar ban.
“If the board of regents needs to take further action to make this clear, we will do so,” UT System Board of Regents Chair Kevin Eltife said in a statement on Tuesday, adding that this is a measure “to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws and executive orders, including any restriction on the use of public funds.”
Eltife declined to say what specific laws they were seeking to comply with, but the move appears to be in response to recent executive orders issued by President Donald J. Trump and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
In January, Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to take all necessary steps to ensure funds are not used to promote gender ideology. A few days later, Abbott directed state agencies to reject efforts “to distort commonsense notions of biological sex.”
Texas A&M University System Board of Regents cited these executive orders when it passed its own drag show ban last month. According to the resolution regents adopted, an event is considered a drag show when it meets five criteria: It involves men dressed in women’s clothing; the performers wear makeup and/or prosthetics “meant to parody the female body type”; the event is open to the public; it involves “sexualized, vulgar or lewd conduct”; and it involves “conduct that demeans women.”
The UT System on Tuesday did not define what it considered a prohibited drag show.
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“an event is considered a drag show when it meets five criteria: It involves men dressed in women’s clothing; the performers wear makeup and/or prosthetics “meant to parody the female body type”; the event is open to the public; it involves “sexualized, vulgar or lewd conduct”; and it involves “conduct that demeans women.””
Michael Palin hardest hit.
Actually, I’m wondering if Midsummer Night’s Dream also qualifies.
This is just silly. There is nothing wrong with having drag shows as long as minors are excluded and participation is voluntary. It’s not my cup of tea but I don’t care of it’s yours. Banning them is just discrimination.
wrong move
adults should be allowed to drag their queens allll over the place if they choose
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