Last week, it was announced that Discovery Plus will be launching a new show called Generation Drag, centered on the stories of five teenagers and their families as they prepare for a performance in Denver, Colorado, celebrating “teen queens, kings, and non-binary performers ages 8 to 18.” In the trailer (embedded at the bottom of this article), we see the kids primping and posing in brightly colored wigs, skimpy outfits, and winged eyeliner.
I’m all for supporting childrens’ self-expression and letting them experiment with different outfits and outlandish makeup. I certainly made some questionable decisions in my youth. And as someone who spent many of my formative years in drag clubs, I am fully on board with adults doing as they wish. But the trendiness of drag culture today is yet another way in which gender ideology and the transitioning of gay children are being glorified as forward-thinking. Some boys will naturally gravitate toward the campy caricature of femininity because they are gender-nonconforming (this is likely due to their being exposed to lower levels of testosterone in the prenatal environment).
