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1. GrayGooGirl :v_lesbian: :1up: (graygoogirl@mstdn.games)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jun-2023 06:29:24 UTC GrayGooGirl :v_lesbian: :1up:

   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.

   • huxley(fur) (huxley@furry.engineer)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jun-2023 06:29:18 UTC huxley(fur)

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     • Sotolf

     @sotolf @GrayGooGirl the laws are worded vaguely and the punishments are severe, so organizations cancel the events on their own rather than risk someone getting arrested. This is the intended result, where the law does not even need to be applied to have a chilling effect.

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   • Sotolf (sotolf@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jun-2023 06:29:20 UTC Sotolf

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     @GrayGooGirl Sorry if this is a stupid, but not being from the US I don't know the laws, isn't there a difference between drag, and what you wear normally, like if you're always wearing womens-/mens-clothes and then wearing it another day doesn't make it drag? I though drag was more performative than just the regular clothes you always wear.

   • m. libby (mlibby@toot.cat)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jun-2023 06:30:31 UTC m. libby

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     • Zack Stern

     @zackstern @GrayGooGirl It's a public library, which makes this a state-backed action against a transgender person, doesn't it?

   • GrayGooGirl :v_lesbian: :1up: (graygoogirl@mstdn.games)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jun-2023 06:30:31 UTC GrayGooGirl :v_lesbian: :1up:

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     • m. libby
     • Zack Stern

     @mlibby @zackstern The library is actually owned by a non-profit but it does receive public funds (the law applies to any library that receives public funds). This is the board covering their own ass at the expense of trans folks. The law in question is so poorly written and so broad in scope that it's impossible to determine if the speaker would be in violation of it.

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   • Zack Stern (zackstern@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jun-2023 06:30:38 UTC Zack Stern

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     @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.

   • GrayGooGirl :v_lesbian: :1up: (graygoogirl@mstdn.games)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jun-2023 06:30:39 UTC GrayGooGirl :v_lesbian: :1up:

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     • Zack Stern
     • Erica "digifox" Kovac 🌐⚛️⚡

     @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

   • Zack Stern (zackstern@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jun-2023 06:30:40 UTC Zack Stern

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     • Erica "digifox" Kovac 🌐⚛️⚡

     @digifox @GrayGooGirl I’d like to read more at a source too. Maybe the post was about this, which isn’t quite how I understood the original post. https://newrepublic.com/post/173175/montana-library-cancels-trans-speaker-fear-punishment-anti-drag-law

   • Erica "digifox" Kovac 🌐⚛️⚡ (digifox@tech.lgbt)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jun-2023 06:30:42 UTC Erica "digifox" Kovac 🌐⚛️⚡

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     @GrayGooGirl do you have a news link?