"Stop trying to claim that this:
Milton Berle, Bugs Bunny, Tootsie, Mrs Doubtfire, Bosom Buddies
Was ever anything like this:
Drag Queen performing for kids at a public library in Washington state *fishnet stockings, miniskirt and exposure of legs and butt*, Austin International Drag Festival *nude man with univorn horn and silver-painted penis with child in makeup*, Drag Queen Story Hour in an Oregon public library *kids hugging man on floor*, Drag performance at an Iowa high school *split legs showing off butt and legs*, 10-year-old drag kid "Queen Lactacia" posing for Huck magazine with a nude adult drag queen
Drag is not for kids"
This is in response to liberals' repeated claims that everyone used to be fine with drag, so we shouldn't pretend it's a problem today
Keywords: Stop pretending that this
How Drag Queens became a Trojan Horse to promote militant trans ideology to children
"Clad in thigh-high rubber boots with 6in heels and a tiny skin-tight skirt, drag queen Copper Topp is an enthusiastic performer on the drag circuit.
Recent footage of her act, taken at the Honor Oak pub in Lewisham, South-East London, shows a lively audience whooping their approval as ‘Copper’ gyrates provocatively on the floor before hitching her skirt to the waist and thrusting her crotch back and forth.
Not everyone is thrilled by the spectacle, however: in one corner of the makeshift stage, a small girl — no more than three — looks on with what can only be described as puzzlement.
You might wonder, of course, why the baffled-looking toddler is there at all. Wasn’t it past her bedtime?
Far from it: this was a ‘family friendly’ drag show hosted at 11am on a Saturday morning...
Copper Topp — the name, while commonly slang for a person with red hair, also refers to a lewd sex act — was performing at a ‘bottomless drag brunch’...
As Copper Topp gyrated in Lewisham, 40 miles away at St Mark’s Church, Southend, another drag queen by the name of Kenzie Blackheart was performing in a tight-fitting green and black corset to pews of children as part of the borough’s ‘Winter Pride’ week.
Then there’s the ‘Caba Baba Rave’ — an event billed as a ‘cabaret sensory rave for parents and their babies 0-2 years’ which has been performing across London in recent months.
In it, half-naked drag acts — some wearing bondage gear, thongs and nipple tassels — gyrate in front of parents bouncing babies and toddlers on their laps...
There had been a 300 per cent increase in drag events in schools, libraries and churches in the past year alone.
Not everyone is thrilled. Many events have attracted protesters who believe drag queens — known for a brand of humour that’s far more sexualised than that of Edna or Savage, with stage names such as ‘FlowJob’ and ‘Courtney Act’ — are better suited to a nightclub setting.
And while often being deeply inappropriate for children, some wonder if drag acts are a Trojan Horse through which proponents smuggle into schools more politicised agendas, particularly those of trans rights.
This latter issue has been brought sharply into focus this month, after it emerged that an as yet unidentified drag queen told a classroom of 11 to 12-year-olds that there were ‘73 genders’.
She had been invited to give a sex education talk to Year 7 pupils at Queen Elizabeth II High School on the Isle of Man.
One child raised an objection, saying there were only two genders, for which he was asked to leave the room...
In a separate incident at the same school, an 11-year-old girl said she had been left ‘sick and disgusted’ by a lesson about anal and oral sex.
Following an outcry by parents — and pending the results of an investigation — this new genre of sex education lessons has been suspended at Isle of Man schools, and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is now launching a review of sex education in schools.
But according to James Esses, co-founder of Thoughtful Therapists, an organisation concerned about the impact of gender identity ideology on children and young people, the dramatic increase in drag performances in schools speaks volumes about the militant trans rights agenda.
‘The drag queen phenomenon has become intertwined with the obsession around diversity and inclusion,’ he says.
‘The answer to anyone who expresses any discomfort around this is to say “this is my identity”.
‘What that then means is the vast majority of people who are not comfortable with what is unfolding — whether it’s sexually charged performances in front of children, or schools bringing gender ideology into the classroom — worry they will be labelled a bigot and have the baying mob coming for them for raising perfectly reasonable objections about what is suitable for children.’...
The events attracted controversy when it emerged that one of its most popular protagonists, Sab Samuel, who performs as his alter ego ‘Aida H Dee’ — a play on the neurological disorder ADHD — often performed in tight-fitting outfits through which the outline of his genitals could on occasion clearly be seen...
The shows’ defenders cry ‘inclusivity’ and ‘diversity’ but that is a ‘spurious justification’, says a spokesman for the Safe Schools Alliance. ‘We don’t want to ban drag queens — but we do want to apply basic safeguarding, and we object to children being used to validate adults and the misogyny inherent in drag performances.’...
Kenzie herself — self-styled as ‘the UK’s Nuclear Bombshell of Drag’ — suggested those who had raised objections to her performance in the church’s sanctuary in front of young children were ‘bigots’. Her presence was, she wrote on social media, about ‘representation’ for LGBTQ+ people and ‘those with different gender identities’.
‘We are here to help your children grow up with acceptance, tolerance and an open mind,’ she added, pointing out that she had even replaced her customary fishnets with opaque black tights ‘so as not to upset anyone’.
In what has proved to be a customary riposte to detractors, Kenzie ended by sarcastically wishing luck to any of them who were considering buying a pantomime ticket this year.
This, says James Esses, of Thoughtful Therapists, the group concerned about the impact on children of gender ideology, is a much deployed fudge. ‘Pantomime dames wear enormous flowery dresses, not bondage gear or thongs. Pantomime dames do not twerk provocatively in front of young children.
‘Drag queens occupy quite different territory . . . Some even have pages on OnlyFans, an online platform used primarily by sex workers. For kids with access to the internet and Google, it can be a portal into a very adult world.’
Claire Loneragan agrees. ‘Equating them to panto dames is an easy way to give them a family-friendly makeover: “Hey, it’s just panto.” And if it becomes sexual then activists say: “Well, the children are too young to understand it anyway.”’
That was the argument wheeled out by organisers of the Caba Baba Rave for parents and their babies, during which one cross-dressing performer with a drag name that is a pun on anal sex could be seen doing a handstand on a chair in a leopard-print thong and gloves...
‘It goes without saying that babies of a young age aren’t able to grasp the plot of an intricate, thought-provoking movie,’ they wrote. Not much of an argument, according to Debbie Hayton — a trans teacher who has written about her concerns about the grip gender ideology can have on primary schools.
‘The idea that you can’t understand it makes it OK is extraordinary. You wouldn’t have an adult comedian performing to infants, even though they might not “understand that”,’ she says.
Levelling accusations of transphobia at those who express discomfort only highlights for Hayton the overlap between drag queens and modern trans activism.
‘It’s ironic really, because go back ten years and many transexuals used to be very uncomfortable with drag queens because transitioning was something major in our lives; many of us had taken hormones and had invasive surgery in order to try to pass as a member of the opposite sex, and these people are a parody of that,’ she recalls.
‘For many of us their appearance was an infringement of trans rights — but there has been a change of attitude and in many instances the two have been conflated. I have always struggled to call drag acts entertainment — and I now find myself shrieking about how on earth we have got to a position where we are inflicting it on our children?’"