A Montana library has cancelled a transgender journalist's event over drag ban fears, after someone complained that Jawort was planning to dress “flamboyantly.”
“I am the 1st person targeted for Montana’s anti-drag law, and it was *for a history lecture* about Indigenous trans/2 Spirit people,” Jawort wrote on her Instagram post.
“We trans/LGBTQ activist had long pointed out how these anti-Drag laws could/would be used to target trans people, and people called us reactionary for it,” Jawort stated, adding that the cancellation of her event was a “very blatant cut and dry violation of my 1st Amendment rights,” which will “likely get challenged by me in courts” where she intends to “highlight how silly these anti-drag laws are and get them thrown out.
for rightly pointing out how anti-trans bills would likely harm transgender children in the state, also noted on Twitter how she and others had predicted the library’s actions. “When I spoke about how this bill could be used to target trans people, Republican Leadership objected multiple times, stating that ‘the bill had nothing to do with the transgender community,'”
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