Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton will defend Texas A&M in court after it was sued over a decision to ban drag performances on its campuses, The Daily Wire learned Friday.
The Board of Regents for Texas A&M was sued earlier this month by a student group called the Queer Empowerment Council, which alleged that the board’s February decision to no longer sanction drag shows on campus is a violation of the First Amendment. Paxton said Friday that the publicly-funded university system had no obligation to host “obscene” drag shows, and that he would be representing the board.
“Our colleges and universities exist to help students learn and equip them as they take their next steps in life,” Paxton told The Daily Wire. “They are not, and have never been, a place for taxpayer-funded drag shows where men pretending to be women engage in obscene, offensive, and degrading…
