Students at West Texas A&M University have protested the decision, calling for the show to go on.
The West Texas A&M drag show, “A Fool’s Drag Race,” had been planned by several student groups and was intended to be a charity drive, organizers said. Proceeds would have gone to The Trevor Project, a nonprofit that provides mental health support for queer youth.
Wendler said drag shows “stereotype women” and called them “derisive, divisive and demoralizing misogyny” in his lengthy email to the university, which he also posted to a personal Student groups allege that Wendler broke a school policy forbidding the university from acting against student groups on the basis of political, religious or ideological viewpoints. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression blasted Wendler’s order in a“Wendler’s callous disregard for students’ rights is not a good — nor constitutional — look from a university president,” the group wrote.
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