Drag queens reading or performing to children have been in the news of late, following numerous cases of shocking and inappropriate behaviour. This has led to a backlash, and a backlash against the backlash. Some US Democrat lawmakers—like New York mayor
They did this in Scotland and had a number of complaints from parents, countered with accusations of "small-mindedness" - Frankie Boyle was particularly vocal in criticising those who objected to it. Then a story appeared on twitter detailing one of the above cases, the "small-minded" accusations stopped and Boyle et al suddenly had no opinions on the matter. How curious.
As you say; who benefits from this? It's always marketed as if it's some important element in a child's development. Because books and reading aren't important enough in their own right, and they simply must be read aloud by a creepy bloke with zero background in education but who's squeezed into a pair of women's knickers.
I complained to my local library service about Drag queen story hour and they couldn't see the issue even though I said it was an adult sexualised act. I complain every time they book them. They said it helped LGBT inclusively. They just can't see the issue, even though I asked would they have a GIMP telling stories.....I also complained to Taunton library who had a special day with LGBT History. They completely dismissed me saying the act was not inappropriate. They turned down a Lesbian who approached them to do something for the day - saying no thanks they had the Drag Act. The lesbian was going to dress up as a WW1 nurse and tell people about the Lesbian women from Taunton who were front line nurses in WW1.....you couldn't make it up!!! She went anyway, and went around the town. 👌
Just reported today that Irish politician Senator Regina Doherty told the Scottish parliament’s ‘equalities, human rights and civil justice committee’ via zoom that she found it “fanciful” that a man would change gender to get access to women.
Oh and she says there are “probably nine genders”.
This thicko is the ‘leader’ of the Irish Senate - a toothless body mostly made up of cranks and failed politics - poor Regina lost her own seat in parliament in the last election when the voters in County Meath gave her the boot.
I'm a librarian (now a legal librarian, but I was a children's librarian in US public libraries for a number of years). Kids get nothing from Drag Queen Storytime that they don't get from the librarian or anyone else reading them a story. All the claims that it teaches them about diversity are nonsense: toddlers don't have any concept that the big person in the colorful clothes and makeup represents any orientation or identity.
The agencies that hire out the Drag Queens charge hundreds of dollars at a time when public libraries across the US (and to an even greater extent across the UK) are being closed for lack of funding. The whole thing is an expensive farce, and it's done for two groups: parents who want to feel woke for taking their kids to see a gay man put on a grotesque parody of a woman, and librarians, who are frankly about the most indoctrinated profession around.
Thank you for this article, btw, as it has given me the idea that we need a new twitter meme: Story Hour Drag Queens Who Are Also Sex Offenders. Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho, off to work I go...
I don't know the rules in USA but in UK doesnt anyone with contact with vulnerable people including children need to be vetted beforehand? Believe it was called an 'advanced DBT check' when I took on some voluntary work for local charity. Or are there special rules for drag/T?
Thank you for this timely article. Just yesterday, in response to someone on GETTR, I suggest a list should be made of those paedophiles posing as 'female' impersonators, and here it is.
Parents bringing their kids to these library 'events' possibly are suffering from a sort of weird attention seeking ("LOOK how progressive I am") flaw with maybe even an element of something more sinister.
My wife was recently in a women's boutique on the Northside of Dublin. As she entered a rather pushy-type woman (sorry if I trigger anyone) and her son were just leaving.
He was about 12, with a slight build, long hair and was dressed in slacks and a girl's blouse. While chatting to the shop assistant my wife mentioned the boy. The assistant said that his mother often brought him in to get him to try on clothes and she would overhear the pair talking about changing sex/gender. The assistant thought that the mother was pushing her son towards being a 'girl'. The whole thing between the mother and son made her uneasy. Interestingly, she said he had a slightly younger brother who the mother didn't seem to have any interest in - he was left at the shop's door the few times he came with them.
Could there not be an element of what used to be known as Munchausen syndrome by Proxy involved with these parents who seem to encourage kids to go down this route?
This is a complicated problem for me. I took my kids to a drag show yesterday. Qya Cristal is an amazingly talented singer. I was happy my kids wanted to say hi to him after the show. We have friends in common, and Qya went to my son’s college. They had a nice chat.
I have enjoyed several performances by drag queens over the years. I support gender nonconforming men. And I love music. So only if there’s talent.
That said, I brought my kids to this performance, nobody brought the performance to my kids. Qya is a serious musician. There is no way in hell he would ever dress up like a poorly powdered caricature and read books to children in a library. That is gross. I would not bring my kids to that.
There is nothing overly sexualized about a performance like Qya’s. He dresses like a woman (convincingly, I might add - my daughter was surprised when I told her later). But not a caricature of a woman. And Qya’s performance of Autumn Leaves is no more sexualized than anybody else’s. And precisely how sexualized should Careless Whisper be?
So here’s an unusual take: these assholes are giving drag queens a bad name.
Graham, the dam of silence and suppression on Trans is BREAKING in Ireland at last.
An entire page today in the Sunday Independent (still I think Ireland’s biggest selling non-tabloid) has been given over to readers’ letters critical of the Trans ideology farce and the Irish political parties who have endorsed it. They were written in support of Eilis O’Hanlon’s article last week. Have only read them on my phone so far https://epaper.independentnewsstand.ie/titles/sundayindependent/8312/publications/328/articles/1611908/17/1
and haven’t seen a pro-Trans one yet (I understand they got one or two).
Ironically Taoiseach Michael Martin told Pride marchers yesterday Trans had the FULL support of Irish government and, inter alia, there has to be thought given to how young people are “educated”.
Here is his Twitter feed - - note what was edited out of the clip by him/his officials.!
Here are some of the bits left out of his speech (as reported by the Irish Times:
I want to say to our trans community in particular, we need space and we need to facilitate informed, open, inclusive acceptance, understanding, in terms of our trans community for its proper debate in a proper context,” he said.
“We do not need divisive debate in this country on issues like that, we do not need it. We need tolerance and a celebration of diversity.”
We have a lot to do yet. We cannot become complacent,” Martin said to the first of several outbursts of applause and whistles. He spoke about coming legislation on hate crime, and ridding society of so-called conversion therapies, and of the need to rethink how young people are educated.
Completely gross. It's been so obvious for years that this cult would open the door wide to paedophiles and every other perverted predator that we could think of ,but the authorities have just ignored all that and now innocent people are paying the price. Shame on them all. These enablers are every bit as guilty as the perpetrators !! 👎💔 Well done ,Graham ,for highlighting this ♥️💘👍
They did this in Scotland and had a number of complaints from parents, countered with accusations of "small-mindedness" - Frankie Boyle was particularly vocal in criticising those who objected to it. Then a story appeared on twitter detailing one of the above cases, the "small-minded" accusations stopped and Boyle et al suddenly had no opinions on the matter. How curious.
As you say; who benefits from this? It's always marketed as if it's some important element in a child's development. Because books and reading aren't important enough in their own right, and they simply must be read aloud by a creepy bloke with zero background in education but who's squeezed into a pair of women's knickers.
I complained to my local library service about Drag queen story hour and they couldn't see the issue even though I said it was an adult sexualised act. I complain every time they book them. They said it helped LGBT inclusively. They just can't see the issue, even though I asked would they have a GIMP telling stories.....I also complained to Taunton library who had a special day with LGBT History. They completely dismissed me saying the act was not inappropriate. They turned down a Lesbian who approached them to do something for the day - saying no thanks they had the Drag Act. The lesbian was going to dress up as a WW1 nurse and tell people about the Lesbian women from Taunton who were front line nurses in WW1.....you couldn't make it up!!! She went anyway, and went around the town. 👌
Mighty odd that the lessons of previous predators hiding in plain sight have been forgotten.
Just reported today that Irish politician Senator Regina Doherty told the Scottish parliament’s ‘equalities, human rights and civil justice committee’ via zoom that she found it “fanciful” that a man would change gender to get access to women.
Oh and she says there are “probably nine genders”.
This thicko is the ‘leader’ of the Irish Senate - a toothless body mostly made up of cranks and failed politics - poor Regina lost her own seat in parliament in the last election when the voters in County Meath gave her the boot.
I'm a librarian (now a legal librarian, but I was a children's librarian in US public libraries for a number of years). Kids get nothing from Drag Queen Storytime that they don't get from the librarian or anyone else reading them a story. All the claims that it teaches them about diversity are nonsense: toddlers don't have any concept that the big person in the colorful clothes and makeup represents any orientation or identity.
The agencies that hire out the Drag Queens charge hundreds of dollars at a time when public libraries across the US (and to an even greater extent across the UK) are being closed for lack of funding. The whole thing is an expensive farce, and it's done for two groups: parents who want to feel woke for taking their kids to see a gay man put on a grotesque parody of a woman, and librarians, who are frankly about the most indoctrinated profession around.
Thank you for this article, btw, as it has given me the idea that we need a new twitter meme: Story Hour Drag Queens Who Are Also Sex Offenders. Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho, off to work I go...
I don't know the rules in USA but in UK doesnt anyone with contact with vulnerable people including children need to be vetted beforehand? Believe it was called an 'advanced DBT check' when I took on some voluntary work for local charity. Or are there special rules for drag/T?
Thank you for this timely article. Just yesterday, in response to someone on GETTR, I suggest a list should be made of those paedophiles posing as 'female' impersonators, and here it is.
Parents need to know.
Parents bringing their kids to these library 'events' possibly are suffering from a sort of weird attention seeking ("LOOK how progressive I am") flaw with maybe even an element of something more sinister.
My wife was recently in a women's boutique on the Northside of Dublin. As she entered a rather pushy-type woman (sorry if I trigger anyone) and her son were just leaving.
He was about 12, with a slight build, long hair and was dressed in slacks and a girl's blouse. While chatting to the shop assistant my wife mentioned the boy. The assistant said that his mother often brought him in to get him to try on clothes and she would overhear the pair talking about changing sex/gender. The assistant thought that the mother was pushing her son towards being a 'girl'. The whole thing between the mother and son made her uneasy. Interestingly, she said he had a slightly younger brother who the mother didn't seem to have any interest in - he was left at the shop's door the few times he came with them.
Could there not be an element of what used to be known as Munchausen syndrome by Proxy involved with these parents who seem to encourage kids to go down this route?
This is the new more posh name for the syndrome: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/9834-factitious-disorder-imposed-on-another-fdia
🤮🤮🤮
It's not Jackanory, is it.
Thank you, JL xx
Hey guys,
My wife just found this ‘Signs you may be a WOMAN’ on YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s4LmozsVVgo
Maybe we should send this link to the BBC, the police, Dame Dick and the College of Policing, Sir Starmer, Diane Abbot and the rest of the gang.
This is a complicated problem for me. I took my kids to a drag show yesterday. Qya Cristal is an amazingly talented singer. I was happy my kids wanted to say hi to him after the show. We have friends in common, and Qya went to my son’s college. They had a nice chat.
I have enjoyed several performances by drag queens over the years. I support gender nonconforming men. And I love music. So only if there’s talent.
That said, I brought my kids to this performance, nobody brought the performance to my kids. Qya is a serious musician. There is no way in hell he would ever dress up like a poorly powdered caricature and read books to children in a library. That is gross. I would not bring my kids to that.
There is nothing overly sexualized about a performance like Qya’s. He dresses like a woman (convincingly, I might add - my daughter was surprised when I told her later). But not a caricature of a woman. And Qya’s performance of Autumn Leaves is no more sexualized than anybody else’s. And precisely how sexualized should Careless Whisper be?
So here’s an unusual take: these assholes are giving drag queens a bad name.
Graham, the dam of silence and suppression on Trans is BREAKING in Ireland at last.
An entire page today in the Sunday Independent (still I think Ireland’s biggest selling non-tabloid) has been given over to readers’ letters critical of the Trans ideology farce and the Irish political parties who have endorsed it. They were written in support of Eilis O’Hanlon’s article last week. Have only read them on my phone so far https://epaper.independentnewsstand.ie/titles/sundayindependent/8312/publications/328/articles/1611908/17/1
and haven’t seen a pro-Trans one yet (I understand they got one or two).
Ironically Taoiseach Michael Martin told Pride marchers yesterday Trans had the FULL support of Irish government and, inter alia, there has to be thought given to how young people are “educated”.
Here is his Twitter feed - - note what was edited out of the clip by him/his officials.!
https://twitter.com/MichealMartinTD/status/1540711800773148672?s=20&t=j5X-eeTCFqrnZPaeRQ_I7Q
Here are some of the bits left out of his speech (as reported by the Irish Times:
I want to say to our trans community in particular, we need space and we need to facilitate informed, open, inclusive acceptance, understanding, in terms of our trans community for its proper debate in a proper context,” he said.
“We do not need divisive debate in this country on issues like that, we do not need it. We need tolerance and a celebration of diversity.”
We have a lot to do yet. We cannot become complacent,” Martin said to the first of several outbursts of applause and whistles. He spoke about coming legislation on hate crime, and ridding society of so-called conversion therapies, and of the need to rethink how young people are educated.
"The bigger the front, the bigger the back".
Completely gross. It's been so obvious for years that this cult would open the door wide to paedophiles and every other perverted predator that we could think of ,but the authorities have just ignored all that and now innocent people are paying the price. Shame on them all. These enablers are every bit as guilty as the perpetrators !! 👎💔 Well done ,Graham ,for highlighting this ♥️💘👍