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[-] bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml 17 points 5 months ago

They don't need to be all encompassing for anything. A brightly dressed adult is just interesting to children, and people in general like reading to children because it's fun and it promotes literacy. People use puppets to read to kids after all.

It's also not about promoting being trans, it's about making the kids aware that people are all different, live different lives and do different things. It's why you get school visits from firefighters, various cultural presentations, science presentations etc.

You wouldn't say a native american speaker was promoting being native american.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

First of all, you don't need to be LGBTA to be Queer, secondly, when it comes to normalising acceptance drag queens are brilliant. When I was a kid Olivia Jones (or Lilo Wanders?) was in like every second talk show round, having funny wholesome meta-takes.

Or, differently put: Imagine a 2.10m unit moderating a presidential debate in full drag. Heck, imagine a native american doing it in full regalia. As long as that's not possible in the US because the adults would freak out you have to start with the kids so that they won't freak out when they're older.

then let’s have trans reading hour. To me drag queens are performers,

Judith Butler aside, trans folks generally don't want to be performers. They tend to want to be who they are and be accepted as such, blend in as their gender, not stand out as breaking norms.

[-] bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

Yes absolutely. I think you meant to reply to the other poster though.

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