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Montana's drag ban was applied to a transgender person doing public speaking. No music, no dance, just a trans person and a podium. This is what they want. They want us to be removed from public life. This is identical to what Hitler did with the Nuremberg Laws. Eventually the punishment for us simply existing in public spaces will be jail time. If that makes you uncomfortable, please speak up to whomever will listen. Fixing this requires cis support.

GrayGooGirl :v_lesbian: :1up:

@zackstern
Yeah, the law is so ambiguously written that it could absolutely apply to any trans public speaker, because the ban includes all public property regardless of who the audience is. Again this is how it starts, by pretending that drag performers and trans people are the same thing, then using bans on the former to push the latter out of public life. Today is fear of reprisal over a speech given on public property, tomorrow it's simply existing in public spaces.
@digifox

@zackstern
It doesn't actually matter that they might not have been fined, the fear was enough for them to cancel, enough for them to say the risk wasn't worth it. To say a trans person's thoughts and expertise arent important enough to fight for.
@digifox

@GrayGooGirl for sure it’s a mess and I’m concerned. I misunderstood your wording to be about some kind of state-backed action against a transgender person, but I can also read your post as the library canceling in advance. Same garbage result either way I guess.