Tennessee federal judge rules 'drag ban' is unconstitutional

clear and their rulings aren't convoluted.

Full ruling is here



and he is a Trump appointee.

I mean is it any man in a dress? Not all females wear dresses

I just keep remembering from my childhood Mary Martin playing Peter Pan on Broadway and on TV she was a big hit

because she has knock knees from severe arthritis.

if this winds up in the us suprime court and the justices rule against the descision, then they really need to be ousted.

No one is forcing them to go to a bar or cabaret to watch a drag show. Their real problem is they can't stop thinking about drag queens and cross dressers. If they would just stop obsessively cultivating their bigoted antipathy towards people, who are different, "other," their problem with drag would instantly disappear. But nooooo, they can't stop making the "other" wrong, so they can make themselves feel right.

The most insidious aspect of this is that they don't stop with "obsessively cultivating their bigoted antipathy." They insist on enacting it into law under the false pretext of protecting children....from things that aren't a threat to them in any way. I don't know what makes me angrier, the bigotry itself or the blatant dishonesty.

Kudos to the judge for reading the Bill of Rights that the GOP legislature and fat-head Republican governor didn't.

Drag shows in bars are notorious for adult language equivalent to mature standup comedy, and sometimes include performers of all genders in potentially racy costumes.

Obviously if it is held in a bar it's a mature 21+ event.

If it's a theater performance with ticketed admission, the audience is likely aware of what they're getting into, whether it's all-ages panto or a show like La Cage Aux Folles which is about drag performers. Theaters are usually good about content warning their shows.

If it's a public pride parade most people get what's happening, but still good to make sure everyone is costumed appropriately for a public event and there is no inappropriate display.

I think most performing queens are very aware that if they're doing a dress-up story time for kids or a public outdoor show that they rein it in and keep the content appropriate to the venue. Even if on publicity that includes drag they clearly note the content for parents' edification: "All ages performance - featuring songs by female impersonator [Name]" or something like that. Just so no person can ever declare that they "accidentally" encountered something they find inappropriate and can complain about it.

like they do rulings against "liiiiiibbbbbbrrrrrrrulllllsss".

Geraldine approves!

that will cover any of the activities they claim they are worried about. I would have been very surprised if this kind of repression was allowed by any federal judge.

TN GOP "does not pass laws but lawsuits".

Bunch of idiots we have in our legislature.

Knoxville Rep Gloria Johnson of The Tennessee Three is considering running against Sen.Marsha Blackburn. She will have our overwhelming support and some of our money.

Some Like it Hot? (Okay, I'm dating myself) and never once gave a thought about men in dresses.

... Milton Berle, Flip Wilson, and others who appeared on early television

it is a question.

no confidence in the supremes

When I was a kid in the 50s/60s being raised in TN, it was rare to see women wearing pants. Back then, it was also very rare to see anyone wearing shorts, even in summer except at pools, at the lake or on vacation. Showing too much skin might lead to sinnin', ya know.

Since the GOP seems hell-bent to take us back to that era, nothing surprises me with them nowadays but that one would go over like a lead balloon with the ladies.......

Seems fair to me if men can't wear dresses then women shouldn't wear pants....... ......

And my sisters would have to sneak pants to school. The school allowed it by my parents didn't.

Weird, considering pants show less skin then dresses and skirts.