# Are drag queens offensive to transgender people?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-drag-queens-offensive-to-transgender-people/812323
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [April 12, 2018, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-drag-queens-offensive-to-transgender-people/812323 "2018-04-12T23:48:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2018, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-drag-queens-offensive-to-transgender-people/812323/21 "2018-04-13T19:10:16Z")
> [@jaycat](#):
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> Everything is offensive to somebody.
How _DARE_ You! :mad:
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### Author:  [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2018, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-drag-queens-offensive-to-transgender-people/812323/22 "2018-04-13T19:17:33Z")
The writer of the linked article is [https://spectator.org/bio/emily-zanotti/](https://spectator.org/bio/emily-zanotti/)
She works for the far right wing American Spectator, which was responsible for the phony Arkansas Troopers story against Bill Clinton.
It’s interesting that I do remember the anti-drag queen activists, but I thought that issue was pretty much dead. There seems to be one or two issues that pop up every year as the cause of the most extreme activists. Last year, it was add additional stripes to the rainbow flag.
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### Author:  [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2018, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-drag-queens-offensive-to-transgender-people/812323/23 "2018-04-13T19:18:59Z")
I wasn’t promoting any agenda or writer. I was simply curious about such a ban as noted in the article.
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### Author:  [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2018, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-drag-queens-offensive-to-transgender-people/812323/24 "2018-04-13T19:33:01Z")
> [@Slash1972](#):
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> I wasn’t promoting any agenda or writer. I was simply curious about such a ban as noted in the article.
Not saying you were, just that this writer is purposefully misleading the public by dragging (sorry) up a 3 year old story and presenting it as new.
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### Author:  [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2018, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-drag-queens-offensive-to-transgender-people/812323/25 "2018-04-14T03:53:17Z")
Among the people I know from both groups it varies widely on exactly who you are talking to and when. It seems more a dislike for the person as a person than it does the general drag scene.
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### Author:  [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2018, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-drag-queens-offensive-to-transgender-people/812323/26 "2018-04-16T01:27:58Z")
[Obligatory song](https://youtu.be/zHH5EWJhLHE) without which this discussion could not be complete.
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### Author:  [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2018, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-drag-queens-offensive-to-transgender-people/812323/27 "2018-04-16T01:39:50Z")
Re the parallel between drag queens and black-faced minstrel characters.
If the parallel exists at all, I think it is superficial. Minstrel characters were harmful because they were the only reference of black people that most mainstream audiences had. But no one alive is only exposed to femininity through drag queens. No one is walking out of a drag queen show with ill-will towards women that they wouldn’t have already had. There are enough positive images of women out there that I think (I hope?) we can afford a few negative ones.
Also, many cis women are consumers of drag performances. How many black people flocked to minstrel shows? I can’t imagine very many.
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### Author:  [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2018, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-drag-queens-offensive-to-transgender-people/812323/28 "2018-04-16T13:31:17Z")
If drag isn’t offending anyone, it isn’t drag, it’s just burlesque.
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