Cynthia M. Allen: Can a college cancel a drag performance on the grounds that it’s demeaning to women?

If you feel like drag queens are ubiquitous these days, you aren’t wrong. Whether it’s public libraries, advertisements or award shows, it seems like the gender-bending performers, once relegated to mature adult spaces, are suddenly impossible to avoid. They’re practically everywhere — except perhaps the campus of West Texas A&M University in Canyon. Late last month, university President Walter Wendler, canceled a student-run drag show. It was intended to be a charity event, raising funds for the Trevor Project, a nonprofit organization that focuses on suicide prevention in the LGBTQ community…

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