Revisiting Drag Shows For Kids

I've changed my mind from a few years ago. It's a bridge too far.

Why are so many of these people middle-aged and morbidly obese? Image by Marcel van Engelenburg from Pixabay

I haven’t written much about trans issues recently. It seems less pressing now that Donald Trump has set the TransTrain on fire with several executive orders rolling back several key pieces of Democratic ‘progressive’ anti-scientific whackjobbery.

Most of his EOs have met resistance in the courts, and from medical professionals who continue to insist that this gravy train these medical treatments are abso-freakin’-lutely necessary and ‘life-saving’. Early evidence indicates that in the short term, Trump is going to lose most of these battles.

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But the key word is ‘battles’. ‘Progressives’ will lose this war. They’re up against 80% of American common-sense normies who don’t support fake female athletes, but do support established science.

Trans issues, though, motivate me less than they did two months ago. Ultimately, common sense is prevailing, on this issue if not in much else for the next four years. The horse of different rainbow colors is out of the barn. The world is moving on from ‘trans’, and Trump/Musk have introduced far bigger problems for America than those facing this highly niche elitist, largely sexual fetishist minority.

It got me to thinking about my old kiddie drag piece from a few years ago—Are Drag Shows Really All That Bad For Kids?

I’d felt weird supporting it in 2023, but belly dancing got in the way. I used to be the flashy, heavily-costumed, bejeweled, loud and outrageous chick embarrassing entertaining forty-year-old men on their birthdays. Kids loved me. They were my favorite audience.

But I felt, and still feel, that nagging pedo-ey sensation, not because drag queens or Team Rainbow are particularly disposed to pedophilia, but because the overly-inclusive progressive movement can’t say no to anybody.

We need to remember that any activity that draws children is bound to interest the kiddie-far-too-friendly. As the Boy Scouts can tell you.

Democrats and progressive activists are still fighting this trans crap with Trump, despite illiberal ‘woke’ ideology being one of the many reasons they lost the election so soundly. Today, they’re polling at 27% approval with only 7% thinking they’re doing ‘a great job’. Trump, after all he’s done, is polling at 48%.

Democrats and progressives WILL throw open the doors for the pedos. You can’t trust them with anyone’s safety.

The whole drag performance movement is tainted by its association with transactivism and the latter’s success in infiltrating the schools and the therapy profession with gender-bending and indoctrinating children.

Drag’s connection to transactivism is why I’m cutting off my tenuous support. You’re known by the company you keep. Transactivists prey on children, to mold them into something they’re not, tone-deaf to the pleas that gay kids have the right to grow up gay and that children aren’t old enough to make rational, informed decisions about sex transition. Detransition lawsuits even have begun to state the lack of real prep talk, specifically.

The trans movement is an extension of transhumanism to remake and reimagine what it means to be human, which is fine for adults, but simply inappropriate for children who need to focus on growing up and learning how to navigate the world in the wonderfully healthy bodies most of them have been granted.

There’s a growing sense among the LGB that they made a huge mistake letting the trans and queer in. The Pride movement is losing supporters as normies, including liberals with a sense of decency and the need for boundaries (especially in regard to male sexual desire), quietly withdraw support. Last year in Canada, the Liberal Party and several government groups and corporate sponsors withdrew from various Pride events, mostly over the movement’s anti-Israel stance, which is a weird position for Pride to take considering how much Muslims and Islamic terrorists and the Gazans hate anything LGBTQ. Israel is the ONLY Middle Eastern country that supports gay and transfolk. You’re welcome very fucking much, you garish, overprivileged hate-mongering ingrates!

I haven’t been to a Pride parade in a few years. Trans has overwhelmed it. It’s just—icky.

How far is too far?

What’s the deal with middle-aged and older overweight trans or drag dudes? What’s up with the dude with the beard and hairy chest down below? Women don’t have excessive hirsuteness without a hormonal imbalance. I’d bet my bottom dollar these dudes aren’t ‘gender dysphoric’. My money’s on autogynephilia.

And yet, I’ll be frank, I still feel a bit judge-y as a former belly dancer, who has seen many kiddie dancers and never had a problem with it. I understand why little girls want to wear pretty costumes and dance (and, I’m sure, some boys too although I never encountered any). I adored belly dancers when I was their age, and I’ve never found anything icky about it for kids, maybe because I know how empowering belly dancing actually is. Kiddie beauty pageants they ain’t, drawing slavering pedophiles at the sight of grown-up looking toddlers.

Drag has changed the game. It comes from a highly sexualized culture and I can’t ignore it anymore.

Belly dancers don’t do show ‘n’ tells in school, asking kids, “Are you sure you’re not a belly dancer?” No doubt some of them are! I was, apparently. Drag and belly dancing appeal to boys too, as there is both male-style belly dancing and female-style.

Because of trans extremism, genderqueer recruitment, and ‘gender-affirming care’, we’ve stopped supporting and protecting gay children. I don’t want to support trans homophobia.

Some kids do need help.

I wrote about Aaron Kimberly here on Substack, who unfortunately seems to have taken down all his Bearded Lesbian podcasts and materials. He was taking a lot of flak from others for his views and multiple sex transition back-and-forths. It’s a shame because he struck me as a genuinely, biologically gender dysphoric person, set apart from the old, overweight, suspiciously fetishy autogynephiles.

We need to make a place for people like Aaron, and even for those who aren’t particularly dysphoric, but want to experiment with gender fluidity. There’s a place for that, too, and the young’uns today are hardly the first to cross gender lines. Our grandmothers or great-grandmothers strapped down their breasts with binders a hundred years ago. They made their bodies more like boys’. Later, Boomer and Gen-X rock musicians like David Bowie, Boy George, Mick Jagger, Prince, and Annie Lennox caused others to whisper, “Is he or she gay?”

“Who cares?” others responded. Indeed. So what?

Support for gay marriage and rights has slipped a little with the American public and I wonder if it’s because progressives refused to stop the slippery slope. The all-too-inclusive Pride movement has clearly gone several bridges too far after many great successes. Conservatives who initially resisted gay rights came around once they realized gay people aren’t anymore a threat than straight people. In Canada, it’s not an issue for the Conservative Party and its leader, Pierre Poilievre, who’s made it clear eliminating gay marriage isn’t in the policy platform. He fully accepts his gay father-in-law.

Not all conservatives embrace these rights we consider a given, but neither do all ‘progressives’.

Homosexuality is real. Except for a very small percentage of cases, ‘gender dysphoria’ is not.

Instead of teaching children it’s okay to be gay and it’s not okay to hate others, Pride breached the respectability dam and opened the floodgates to what looked an awful lot like heteroseuxal male fetishism.

I support gay kids, but there’s no such thing as ‘trans’ kids. There just isn’t. Progressives manufactured them.

There’s nothing wrong with sexual fetishism. Just keep it away from kids. Children can be happy in their own bodies. If you let them.

My problems with drag

It would be incorrect to believe that children aren’t sexual at all. They are. Romantic stirrings start young. I remember a very strong inclination for boys when I was a child. I chased little boys around on the playground trying to kiss them.

Yeah, I was That Annoying Girl. Ewwwww!

Children explore their own bodies at around ages 4-6. Some experiment with masturbation. Kids play doctor. Boys and girls sometimes dare each other to expose ‘wee-wees’.

Human sexuality is ever-present. Fetuses have been observed playing with themselves. We explore that wonderful thing between our legs even before birth.

But dudes who express comments like the one below are why so many normies distrust drag queens.

From Twitter

Little girls are NOT ‘kinky’. That’s a male sexual fetishist projection. The queen is right that kids might not be as ‘straight and narrow’ as we think, but it doesn’t give him permission to expose them to inappropriate conduct.

It’s pretty creepy on multiple levels. Not only does he suggest little girls are ‘kinky’ but addresses the fear some adults have that pedo men in the ladies’ room might harm children. Instead of refuting it, he subtly suggests they might like what this theoretical pervert does to them.

Pedophiles justify themselves that way, too.

I do, actually, understand why kids like drag, for the same reason they like belly dancers. I can imagine some kids just eat it up, but others, I wonder, might be quietly creeped out. Old fat guys dancing around like clowns appropriating womanhood; what’s all that about?

Funny how few drag shows ever feature crossing the other way.

I’m leaving up my original drag article but I’m adding a proviso about how I’ve changed my mind.

Somewhere, two years ago, deep down in my liberal soul, I knew it. What it comes down to is this: Recruitment and indoctrination. ‘Drag story hour’ and shows reek of both; belly dancing doesn’t. Probably because it’s a mostly female activity and profession.

The trans movement supports a mostly manufactured pseudo-marginalized group of men. It’s about rolling back women’s rights and, I’m sorry, I have to say it, sexualizing children. It is, as always, biological males at the bottom of this. When men push for something as violently and aggressively as transactivists have for access to women’s private spaces, sports teams, and children, the real motivation is pretty certainly to be found between their legs.

Even if they’re not pedos themselves. Even if they have no desire to expose children to them. But will they stop the pedos who are quietly awaiting their moment with the Ado Annie left? I believe they won’t.

I’m calling BS on drag queens for children. Call me a conservative, a MAGA, a Christian nationalist, a Trumper, or as my progressive Koolaid-drinking college friend accuses me of, a Fox News Koolaid-drinker. I’m none of the above. I’m just a liberal normie trying to be as true and level-headed as I can be about the values and beliefs I’ve held all my adult life. I was wrong to make the half-assed defense of kiddie drag shows that I did. Sincere, but wrong. I have ‘flip-flopped’ as George W. Bush would have put it.

Or maybe I just evolved.

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