rant · moment 6 of 23
Drag Queen Story Hour and the Trans-Kids Debate
from #178 - Secret Society | The Tim Dillon Show · #178
5 min
Tim argues that drag queen story hour feels forced rather than inherently degenerate, then moves into his view that giving hormones to prepubescent children is a mistake while distinguishing that from stifling self-expression.
- Drag queen story hour in libraries inflames people, but Tim doesn't see why it's inherently boiling as a cultural issue.
- Tim observes it's odd that trans activists haven't gone after drag queens yet, given the left's tendency toward self-consumption.
- Drag queens shouldn't read to kids not because they're degenerate, but because it's boring and seems forced and weird.
- Taking drag performance out of the nightclub context and into a different realm doesn't work—it becomes strange.
- Tim notes that drag used to be funny, but now it's being framed moralistically, which he finds insane.
- The drag queen story hour does seem forced and agenda-driven, though drag itself isn't inherently sexual.
- Parents don't want complicated gender and drag concepts explained to their five-year-old children.
- Tim criticizes allowing prepubescent and pubescent children to medically transition as tantamount to child abuse.
- Many people who don't transition turn out to just be gay, so allowing kids fifteen years to figure it out seems reasonable.
- Giving hormones to children is wrong, but if a kid wants to dress up however they like, that's fine—stifling expression only makes things worse.