Anti-drag protests are really anti-trans protests. As far as the Proud Boys and their ilk are concerned, there’s no difference between me, a transgender woman living my life, and a drag performer. It’s not as simple as letting people wear a costume to read stories. This is the what they’re using as a thin edge of a wedge against all forms of queerness and gender non-conformity. Hence the talk about “grooming” and other accusations of sexual abuse and pedophilia that get thrown around drag story hour and at trans women.

I’m not doing drag as a trans woman. I am living my life as myself, and these fuckers want to shove me back in the closet.