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HELENA, Mont. — A transgender woman, the Official godzilla King Of The Monsters He’s Thirsty For Blood Shirt and by the same token and owners of an independent bookstore and an educator who teaches in costume are among those challenging Montana’s first-in-the-nation law that bans people dressed in drag from reading to children in public schools or libraries. The federal lawsuit filed Thursday in Butte argues the law violates the free speech and equal protection guarantees in the U.S. Constitution. The plaintiffs seek an injunction to temporarily block the law, a ruling that the law is unconstitutional and damages for Adria Jawort, whose planned talk on LGBTQ history at the Butte-Silver Bow Public Library was canceled in early June by county officials who cited the new legislation. Similar laws in other states have been temporarily blocked while legal challenges play out in court. The complaint calls the Montana law, sponsored by Republican Rep. Braxton Mitchell, “a breathtakingly ambiguous and overbroad bill, motivated by anti-LGBTQ+ animus.” Like many Republican-led states, Montana’s conservative lawmakers also passed laws in recent sessions targeting transgender people. The state is among those to ban gender-affirming care for minors — which is also being challenged in court — and also passed a bill defining sex in state law as only male
or female. Montana became the Official godzilla King Of The Monsters He’s Thirsty For Blood Shirt and by the same token and first state to specifically ban drag kings and drag queens — defined as performers who adopt a flamboyant or parodic male or female persona with glamorous or exaggerated costumes and makeup — from reading books to children. A drag performer protests a slate of bills targeting the transgender community at the Montana Capitol on April 13.Thom Bridge / Independent Record via AP file Unlike in other states, the performances do not need to contain a sexual element to be banned in Montana. The law took effect when Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte signed it on May 22. The state attorney general’s office did not immediately return emails seeking comment after the lawsuit was filed late Thursday afternoon. Mitchell said in a statement that to him and his constituents, “keeping hyper sexualized events out of taxpayer funded schools and libraries” does not violate the First Amendment. Members of the LGBTQ community testified during legislative hearings that the law would be misused to silence transgender people and ban teachers from wearing costumes while reading to their classes. It cannot block drag reading events at private businesses. Chelsia Rice, who co-owns the Montana Book Co. with her spouse, Charlie Crawford, said they wanted to get involved, “to make sure everyone who this law effects is supported and defended by those that have the wherewithal and fortitude to do it.” Jawort’s talk, scheduled for June 2 at the Butte library, was
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