Drag shows involving children have become a hot-button political and legal controversy. But when it’s just adults involved, there’s no problem, right? Nope. At least, not at one Texas university. West Texas A&M University is facing a lawsuit after its president, Walter V. Wendler, canceled a student group’s drag show event that was planned as a fundraiser for suicide prevention. Wendler justified the cancellation in a public statement by arguing that drag is offensive and demeaning toward women and violated his personal religious beliefs. He did so while simultaneously seeming to acknowledge that his action ran afoul of the law, as West Texas A&M is a public college and therefore bound by the First Amendment. He
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Drag shows involving children have become a hot-button political and legal controversy. But when it’s just adults involved, there’s no problem, right? Nope. At least, not at one Texas university. West Texas A&M University is facing a lawsuit after its president, Walter V. Wendler, canceled a student group’s drag show event that was planned as a fundraiser for suicide prevention. Wendler justified the cancellation in a public statement by arguing that drag is offensive and demeaning toward women and violated his personal religious beliefs. He did so while simultaneously seeming to acknowledge that his action ran afoul of the law, as West Texas A&M is a public college and therefore bound by the First Amendment. He