{"id":1747,"date":"2025-08-19T00:58:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T00:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emmeacne.com\/?p=1747"},"modified":"2025-08-19T00:58:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T00:58:06","slug":"the-west-texas-am-drag-ban-has-been-blocked-by-a-federal-appeals-court-thuytruongspa-615","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennyacne.com\/?p=1747","title":{"rendered":"The West Texas A&amp;M drag ban has been blocked by a federal appeals court. ThuyTruongSpa 615"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A federal appeals court has blocked West Texas A&amp;M University from banning student drag performances on its campus, overruling a lower court order that claimed First Amendment protections do not extend to drag shows. The 2-1 decision from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals asserts the university acted unconstitutionally when it canceled student-organized charity drag performances in 2023 and 2024. President Walter Wendler, who canceled the drag show, cited his Christian religious beliefs and the school&#8217;s public and not religiously affiliated status. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) sued Wendler and West Texas A&amp;M in 2023 on behalf of Spectrum WT, the LGBTQ student group behind the drag show, &#8220;A Fool&#8217;s Drag Race.&#8221; A district court judge denied FIRE and Spectrum WT&#8217;s motion for a preliminary injunction in 2023, and the Supreme Court declined to intervene in the case following a request for emergency action by the student group. The 5th Circuit ruling, written by Judge Leslie H. Southwick, ruled that theatrical performances, including drag shows, &#8220;plainly involve expressive conduct within the protection of the First Amendment.&#8221; The ruling comes several months after a federal judge handed a victory to another student-led LGBTQ group that sued the Texas A&amp;M University System and its flagship earlier this year over a policy banning drag performances on each of its 11 campuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Satisfying Relaxing #ThuyTruong615\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jrsl72tNxcg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal appeals court has blocked West Texas A&amp;M University from banning student drag performances on its campus, overruling a lower court order that claimed First Amendment protections do not extend to drag shows. The 2-1 decision from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals asserts the university acted unconstitutionally when it canceled student-organized charity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,31,146,154,180,188],"class_list":["post-1747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thuy-truong","tag-acne","tag-blackheads","tag-pimple","tag-removal","tag-thuytruongspa","tag-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennyacne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennyacne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennyacne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennyacne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennyacne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennyacne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennyacne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennyacne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennyacne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennyacne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}