A 19-year-old nude dancer alleges a new Florida law raising the age limit on who is employed by adult entertainment businesses infringes on her constitutional rights.

Serenity Michelle Bushey sued Monday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, saying the law violates her First Amendment right to free speech. Two adult entertainment businesses, including the corporation that owns the club where Bushey worked, are also plaintiffs.

The law, HB 7063, which is aimed at preventing human trafficking, includes a ban on employing anyone under age 21 at adult entertainment businesses. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the bill in May, which went into effect Monday.

According to the suit, the lack of any type of "grandfather clause" in the bill has forced such businesses to fire anyone under age 21 immediately. As a result, Bushey has lost her job as a nude performer at Café Risqué.

"In addition to Bushey, at least eight other adult performers who were over the age of eighteen, but under the age of twenty-one, are no longer able to perform at Café Risque because of HB 7063," the suit said.

The suit alleges that the law violates the right to free speech by restricting Bushey from being able to perform her art and make a living, adding that the state did not consider alternatives that would advance state interests without putting a burden on First Amendment rights.

"Plaintiffs maintain that the human body is a thing of beauty which, when combined with music and rhythmic motion in the form of dance, conveys an important message of eroticism," the suit said.

The law also prevents legal-age adults who are not yet 21 from working in other capacities that do not involve nude entertainment, the suit says.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-age-restriction-adult-entertainment-free-speech-lawsuit-rcna160328