MCPS elementary school principals signed an internal memo expressing concerns about LGBTQ curriculum last November

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Anonymous wrote:There is no way MCPS published curriculum with instructions to “make a shaming comment” to a child. Either someone internal to the school put their own spin into instructions, or the principals are reframing.

Regardless of how these religious groups try to spin this, MCPS isn’t trying to indoctrinate elementary kids regarding LGBTQ topics. They are trying to give them context about the other kids sitting next to them in the classroom, because they sure aren’t learning about it at home.

Like it or not, in public school in MCPS there will be children of every possible diversity in the classrooms, including children who are transgender and who have family members in the LGBTQ community.

Is a preK kid sitting next to a drag queen? Why are three and four year olds being taught about drag queens?

As per the current trend, if the preK kid says that zhey are a drag queen then we affirm it, so it is quite possible that some of them are.

Except that’s not true, but I’m sure you know that.
One or two books featuring a drag Queen will not make your kid a drag Queen…

True, but I don’t want to have to explain what a drag queen is. How do you even begin? It’s a man that dresses like a girl, except dresses aren’t just for girls because gender doesn’t exist. We adults can’t figure it out so how can we explain it to a child.

It's a man who dresses up for fun in fancy clothes, like princess costumes.

There, now you don't have to be afraid of "Pride Puppy" anymore! Hooray!

5 year old: why is a man wearing girl clothes?

Because he's dressing up, like you do on Halloween (or when you're playing pretend, or whenever the child dresses up). Really, it's not difficult. I have done it, and I am sure that you can too.

You realize lots of kids in MCPS don't celebrate Halloween, right?

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Anonymous wrote:There is no way MCPS published curriculum with instructions to “make a shaming comment” to a child. Either someone internal to the school put their own spin into instructions, or the principals are reframing.

Regardless of how these religious groups try to spin this, MCPS isn’t trying to indoctrinate elementary kids regarding LGBTQ topics. They are trying to give them context about the other kids sitting next to them in the classroom, because they sure aren’t learning about it at home.

Like it or not, in public school in MCPS there will be children of every possible diversity in the classrooms, including children who are transgender and who have family members in the LGBTQ community.

Is a preK kid sitting next to a drag queen? Why are three and four year olds being taught about drag queens?

Is it teaching three and four year olds about caterpillars when someone reads The Very Hungry Caterpillar to them? Maybe we should ban that book so little kids don't get the idea that caterpillars eat a piece of chocolate cake, a strawberry ice cream cone, a pickle, a slice of Swiss cheese, a slice of salami, a lollipop, a piece of cherry pie, a sausage, a cupcake and a slice of watermelon, and then get a stomach ache?

You're being pedantic and trying every excuse to justify this.

Pedantic doesn't mean what you think it means <--- this actually is pedantic

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Anonymous wrote:There is no way MCPS published curriculum with instructions to “make a shaming comment” to a child. Either someone internal to the school put their own spin into instructions, or the principals are reframing.

Regardless of how these religious groups try to spin this, MCPS isn’t trying to indoctrinate elementary kids regarding LGBTQ topics. They are trying to give them context about the other kids sitting next to them in the classroom, because they sure aren’t learning about it at home.

Like it or not, in public school in MCPS there will be children of every possible diversity in the classrooms, including children who are transgender and who have family members in the LGBTQ community.

Is a preK kid sitting next to a drag queen? Why are three and four year olds being taught about drag queens?

As per the current trend, if the preK kid says that zhey are a drag queen then we affirm it, so it is quite possible that some of them are.

Except that’s not true, but I’m sure you know that.
One or two books featuring a drag Queen will not make your kid a drag Queen…

True, but I don’t want to have to explain what a drag queen is. How do you even begin? It’s a man that dresses like a girl, except dresses aren’t just for girls because gender doesn’t exist. We adults can’t figure it out so how can we explain it to a child.

A drag queen is when a man does dress up for fun.. he might wear sparkly make up and glitter and wear a wig and then sometimes he tells jokes or sings songs for adults. And sometimes he’ll read a book to kids. It’s just for fun.
That’s literally what I said to my 4yo when we say a drag Queen at a restaurant in Rehoboth.

But he isn't dressing up "for fun" He is dressing up to make fun[u] of women. Why would we want to explain how some men love mocking girls and women and we should find that funny, acceptable and inclusive?
Because that conversation is not going to go how you envision it.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a European centrist (meaning, more to the left than most US Democrats), but I find this entire "inclusion" push surprisingly useless in MCPS. Why can't we stick to a general message that just because someone looks different, it's not a reason for bullying or teasing? That slurs such as "gay" or "homo" are never appropriate? Why can't schools focus on teaching academics, instead of wasting everyone's time with assemblies and feel-good sessions, like my kids keep having in their middle and high schools? At this point, they identify the wellbeing blocks on the calendar and tell me those are the days they'd rather finish their homework at home. It never crossed their mind to be mean to LGBTQ+ kids (or Jews, or African-Americans, or anyone else). They don't like to be hit over the head with it regularly.

This is exactly it. If you teach the right VALUES everything else falls into place!!! We have always supported LBGHQ community but have really been repelled by the push to impose trans acceptance and incorrect pronouns on children. Children have a right to freedom of expression and their own beliefs!!! For example if a girl wants to say I am a boy, OK child you do you! If another kid wants to say Sorry I have eyes and I can see you are not a boy, well shoot people that kid is right! What MCPS doing is sick and wrong and every time I hang out with school groups parents are discussing this with real sadness and concern. These books are gross and ineffective. Stop!

No, we won't stop.

You realize some of us just listen and humor you. This isn't ok for 5 year olds. Why do you have to push your agenda onto others and why can't you be respectful of others beliefs. There are plenty of books to teach families look different and yet, none of those are in MCPS schools - different religion, adoption/foster care/kinship care, mixed race families, etc.

MCPS needs to keep out of politics and advocacy group agendas and get back to teaching kids the basics and allow parents to teach that stuff at home. No wonder our kids are failing in math and english. They aren't being taught the basics as advocates like yourself feel it's more important to indoctrinate our kids with your beliefs and no one else's believes or concerns matter to people like you.

There are lots of issues in MCPS in terms of hate and racism and yet, MCPS does nothing for those groups - Muslim, Jews, Asians and many others.

Do you want MCPS to publish lists of approved texts by grade level that are Muslim-inclusive, Jewish-inclusive, Asian-inclusive, and "many others" inclusive? And then allow parents to opt their kids out of ELA when those texts from those lists are included? Is that really what you want?

Drag queens are not a protected class, nor do you find children who are drag queens. Can you say the same about Jews, Asians, and Muslims?

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Anonymous wrote:There is no way MCPS published curriculum with instructions to “make a shaming comment” to a child. Either someone internal to the school put their own spin into instructions, or the principals are reframing.

Regardless of how these religious groups try to spin this, MCPS isn’t trying to indoctrinate elementary kids regarding LGBTQ topics. They are trying to give them context about the other kids sitting next to them in the classroom, because they sure aren’t learning about it at home.

Like it or not, in public school in MCPS there will be children of every possible diversity in the classrooms, including children who are transgender and who have family members in the LGBTQ community.

Is a preK kid sitting next to a drag queen? Why are three and four year olds being taught about drag queens?

As per the current trend, if the preK kid says that zhey are a drag queen then we affirm it, so it is quite possible that some of them are.

Except that’s not true, but I’m sure you know that.
One or two books featuring a drag Queen will not make your kid a drag Queen…

True, but I don’t want to have to explain what a drag queen is. How do you even begin? It’s a man that dresses like a girl, except dresses aren’t just for girls because gender doesn’t exist. We adults can’t figure it out so how can we explain it to a child.

It's a man who dresses up for fun in fancy clothes, like princess costumes.

There, now you don't have to be afraid of "Pride Puppy" anymore! Hooray!

5 year old: why is a man wearing girl clothes?

Because he's dressing up, like you do on Halloween (or when you're playing pretend, or whenever the child dresses up). Really, it's not difficult. I have done it, and I am sure that you can too.

5 yo. boy: cool, can I wear a dress to school tomorrow?

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Anonymous wrote:There is no way MCPS published curriculum with instructions to “make a shaming comment” to a child. Either someone internal to the school put their own spin into instructions, or the principals are reframing.

Regardless of how these religious groups try to spin this, MCPS isn’t trying to indoctrinate elementary kids regarding LGBTQ topics. They are trying to give them context about the other kids sitting next to them in the classroom, because they sure aren’t learning about it at home.

Like it or not, in public school in MCPS there will be children of every possible diversity in the classrooms, including children who are transgender and who have family members in the LGBTQ community.

Is a preK kid sitting next to a drag queen? Why are three and four year olds being taught about drag queens?

As per the current trend, if the preK kid says that zhey are a drag queen then we affirm it, so it is quite possible that some of them are.

Except that’s not true, but I’m sure you know that.
One or two books featuring a drag Queen will not make your kid a drag Queen…

True, but I don’t want to have to explain what a drag queen is. How do you even begin? It’s a man that dresses like a girl, except dresses aren’t just for girls because gender doesn’t exist. We adults can’t figure it out so how can we explain it to a child.

It's a man who dresses up for fun in fancy clothes, like princess costumes.

There, now you don't have to be afraid of "Pride Puppy" anymore! Hooray!

This is okay so long as you add “often the men make fun of women when they are doing the dress-up and it’s not very nice.”

These are you issues. It's not hard to explain "drag queen" or "drag king" to a five-year-old. It's much harder, unfortunately, to solve the problems caused by people who define "liberty" as "my freedom to choose what your child can read."

If I ever find myself on the same side of an issue as people who use that definition of liberty, I'm going to immediately do a whole lot of self-examination. I would advise the MoCo CAIR people to do the same, if they asked me, which they haven't.

If you can’t see the overt misogyny in making fun of women’s physical appearances that they cannot change and specifically their secondary sexual characteristics, that’s a you problem.

Maybe you are okay with performers who mock people in wheelchairs too, idk. But I’m not okay with people who make performance art out of the bodies of other people.

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Anonymous wrote:There is no way MCPS published curriculum with instructions to “make a shaming comment” to a child. Either someone internal to the school put their own spin into instructions, or the principals are reframing.

Regardless of how these religious groups try to spin this, MCPS isn’t trying to indoctrinate elementary kids regarding LGBTQ topics. They are trying to give them context about the other kids sitting next to them in the classroom, because they sure aren’t learning about it at home.

Like it or not, in public school in MCPS there will be children of every possible diversity in the classrooms, including children who are transgender and who have family members in the LGBTQ community.

Is a preK kid sitting next to a drag queen? Why are three and four year olds being taught about drag queens?

Is it teaching three and four year olds about caterpillars when someone reads The Very Hungry Caterpillar to them? Maybe we should ban that book so little kids don't get the idea that caterpillars eat a piece of chocolate cake, a strawberry ice cream cone, a pickle, a slice of Swiss cheese, a slice of salami, a lollipop, a piece of cherry pie, a sausage, a cupcake and a slice of watermelon, and then get a stomach ache?

You're being pedantic and trying every excuse to justify this.

Pedantic doesn't mean what you think it means <--- this actually is pedantic

sure.. comparing reading about a caterpillar and drag queens is stupid. How about that.

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Anonymous wrote:There is no way MCPS published curriculum with instructions to “make a shaming comment” to a child. Either someone internal to the school put their own spin into instructions, or the principals are reframing.

Regardless of how these religious groups try to spin this, MCPS isn’t trying to indoctrinate elementary kids regarding LGBTQ topics. They are trying to give them context about the other kids sitting next to them in the classroom, because they sure aren’t learning about it at home.

Like it or not, in public school in MCPS there will be children of every possible diversity in the classrooms, including children who are transgender and who have family members in the LGBTQ community.

Is a preK kid sitting next to a drag queen? Why are three and four year olds being taught about drag queens?

As per the current trend, if the preK kid says that zhey are a drag queen then we affirm it, so it is quite possible that some of them are.

Except that’s not true, but I’m sure you know that.
One or two books featuring a drag Queen will not make your kid a drag Queen…

True, but I don’t want to have to explain what a drag queen is. How do you even begin? It’s a man that dresses like a girl, except dresses aren’t just for girls because gender doesn’t exist. We adults can’t figure it out so how can we explain it to a child.

It's a man who dresses up for fun in fancy clothes, like princess costumes.

There, now you don't have to be afraid of "Pride Puppy" anymore! Hooray!

5 year old: why is a man wearing girl clothes?

Because he's dressing up, like you do on Halloween (or when you're playing pretend, or whenever the child dresses up). Really, it's not difficult. I have done it, and I am sure that you can too.

You realize lots of kids in MCPS don't celebrate Halloween, right?

Are you explaining what a drag queen is to every five-year-old in MCPS? Or just to your specific five-year-old? You should know whether your specific five-year-old celebrates Halloween or not. If not, find a different playing-dress-up occasion to compare it to. Honest to pete, I'm starting to think some of the people who don't want Pride Puppy read to kids in school just plain don't know how to talk to their own kids.

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Anonymous wrote:There is no way MCPS published curriculum with instructions to “make a shaming comment” to a child. Either someone internal to the school put their own spin into instructions, or the principals are reframing.

Regardless of how these religious groups try to spin this, MCPS isn’t trying to indoctrinate elementary kids regarding LGBTQ topics. They are trying to give them context about the other kids sitting next to them in the classroom, because they sure aren’t learning about it at home.

Like it or not, in public school in MCPS there will be children of every possible diversity in the classrooms, including children who are transgender and who have family members in the LGBTQ community.

Is a preK kid sitting next to a drag queen? Why are three and four year olds being taught about drag queens?

As per the current trend, if the preK kid says that zhey are a drag queen then we affirm it, so it is quite possible that some of them are.

Except that’s not true, but I’m sure you know that.
One or two books featuring a drag Queen will not make your kid a drag Queen…

True, but I don’t want to have to explain what a drag queen is. How do you even begin? It’s a man that dresses like a girl, except dresses aren’t just for girls because gender doesn’t exist. We adults can’t figure it out so how can we explain it to a child.

It's a man who dresses up for fun in fancy clothes, like princess costumes.

There, now you don't have to be afraid of "Pride Puppy" anymore! Hooray!

5 year old: why is a man wearing girl clothes?

Because he's dressing up, like you do on Halloween (or when you're playing pretend, or whenever the child dresses up). Really, it's not difficult. I have done it, and I am sure that you can too.

5 yo. boy: cool, can I wear a dress to school tomorrow?

That's your parenting decision. If you don't want to let your boy wear a dress to school, then you can say no. Nobody is stopping you from saying no.

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Anonymous wrote:There is no way MCPS published curriculum with instructions to “make a shaming comment” to a child. Either someone internal to the school put their own spin into instructions, or the principals are reframing.

Regardless of how these religious groups try to spin this, MCPS isn’t trying to indoctrinate elementary kids regarding LGBTQ topics. They are trying to give them context about the other kids sitting next to them in the classroom, because they sure aren’t learning about it at home.

Like it or not, in public school in MCPS there will be children of every possible diversity in the classrooms, including children who are transgender and who have family members in the LGBTQ community.

Is a preK kid sitting next to a drag queen? Why are three and four year olds being taught about drag queens?

As per the current trend, if the preK kid says that zhey are a drag queen then we affirm it, so it is quite possible that some of them are.

Except that’s not true, but I’m sure you know that.
One or two books featuring a drag Queen will not make your kid a drag Queen…

True, but I don’t want to have to explain what a drag queen is. How do you even begin? It’s a man that dresses like a girl, except dresses aren’t just for girls because gender doesn’t exist. We adults can’t figure it out so how can we explain it to a child.

It's a man who dresses up for fun in fancy clothes, like princess costumes.

There, now you don't have to be afraid of "Pride Puppy" anymore! Hooray!

This is okay so long as you add “often the men make fun of women when they are doing the dress-up and it’s not very nice.”

And they often talk and engage in lewd and crude sexual play while in drag.

This is very true. I have a relative who is a drag king. Social media posts include a lot of suggestive hip thrusting and dollar bills stuffed down pants. Not the dream we have for any of our daughters (or sons).

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Anonymous wrote:There is no way MCPS published curriculum with instructions to “make a shaming comment” to a child. Either someone internal to the school put their own spin into instructions, or the principals are reframing.

Regardless of how these religious groups try to spin this, MCPS isn’t trying to indoctrinate elementary kids regarding LGBTQ topics. They are trying to give them context about the other kids sitting next to them in the classroom, because they sure aren’t learning about it at home.

Like it or not, in public school in MCPS there will be children of every possible diversity in the classrooms, including children who are transgender and who have family members in the LGBTQ community.

Is a preK kid sitting next to a drag queen? Why are three and four year olds being taught about drag queens?

Is it teaching three and four year olds about caterpillars when someone reads The Very Hungry Caterpillar to them? Maybe we should ban that book so little kids don't get the idea that caterpillars eat a piece of chocolate cake, a strawberry ice cream cone, a pickle, a slice of Swiss cheese, a slice of salami, a lollipop, a piece of cherry pie, a sausage, a cupcake and a slice of watermelon, and then get a stomach ache?

You're being pedantic and trying every excuse to justify this.

Pedantic doesn't mean what you think it means <--- this actually is pedantic

sure.. comparing reading about a caterpillar and drag queens is stupid. How about that.

Why is it stupid? Please explain. Because while caterpillars don't eat chocolate cake and then get stomach aches, there actually are people in real life who are drag queens? Is that why?

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Anonymous wrote:There is no way MCPS published curriculum with instructions to “make a shaming comment” to a child. Either someone internal to the school put their own spin into instructions, or the principals are reframing.

Regardless of how these religious groups try to spin this, MCPS isn’t trying to indoctrinate elementary kids regarding LGBTQ topics. They are trying to give them context about the other kids sitting next to them in the classroom, because they sure aren’t learning about it at home.

Like it or not, in public school in MCPS there will be children of every possible diversity in the classrooms, including children who are transgender and who have family members in the LGBTQ community.

Is a preK kid sitting next to a drag queen? Why are three and four year olds being taught about drag queens?

As per the current trend, if the preK kid says that zhey are a drag queen then we affirm it, so it is quite possible that some of them are.

Except that’s not true, but I’m sure you know that.
One or two books featuring a drag Queen will not make your kid a drag Queen…

True, but I don’t want to have to explain what a drag queen is. How do you even begin? It’s a man that dresses like a girl, except dresses aren’t just for girls because gender doesn’t exist. We adults can’t figure it out so how can we explain it to a child.

A drag queen is when a man does dress up for fun.. he might wear sparkly make up and glitter and wear a wig and then sometimes he tells jokes or sings songs for adults. And sometimes he’ll read a book to kids. It’s just for fun.
That’s literally what I said to my 4yo when we say a drag Queen at a restaurant in Rehoboth.

And, that's fine for when you go to the restaurant but for those of us not doing that, why does a four year old need to know?

Are we limiting the public school curriculum to a need-to-know basis, now?

Because age of child actually dictates A NEED TO KNOW. That is why porn is illegal for minors.

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Anonymous wrote:There is no way MCPS published curriculum with instructions to “make a shaming comment” to a child. Either someone internal to the school put their own spin into instructions, or the principals are reframing.

Regardless of how these religious groups try to spin this, MCPS isn’t trying to indoctrinate elementary kids regarding LGBTQ topics. They are trying to give them context about the other kids sitting next to them in the classroom, because they sure aren’t learning about it at home.

Like it or not, in public school in MCPS there will be children of every possible diversity in the classrooms, including children who are transgender and who have family members in the LGBTQ community.

Is a preK kid sitting next to a drag queen? Why are three and four year olds being taught about drag queens?

As per the current trend, if the preK kid says that zhey are a drag queen then we affirm it, so it is quite possible that some of them are.

Except that’s not true, but I’m sure you know that.
One or two books featuring a drag Queen will not make your kid a drag Queen…

True, but I don’t want to have to explain what a drag queen is. How do you even begin? It’s a man that dresses like a girl, except dresses aren’t just for girls because gender doesn’t exist. We adults can’t figure it out so how can we explain it to a child.

It's a man who dresses up for fun in fancy clothes, like princess costumes.

There, now you don't have to be afraid of "Pride Puppy" anymore! Hooray!

This is okay so long as you add “often the men make fun of women when they are doing the dress-up and it’s not very nice.”

These are you issues. It's not hard to explain "drag queen" or "drag king" to a five-year-old. It's much harder, unfortunately, to solve the problems caused by people who define "liberty" as "my freedom to choose what your child can read."

If I ever find myself on the same side of an issue as people who use that definition of liberty, I'm going to immediately do a whole lot of self-examination. I would advise the MoCo CAIR people to do the same, if they asked me, which they haven't.

If you can’t see the overt misogyny in making fun of women’s physical appearances that they cannot change and specifically their secondary sexual characteristics, that’s a you problem.

Maybe you are okay with performers who mock people in wheelchairs too, idk. But I’m not okay with people who make performance art out of the bodies of other people.

I've read and re-read and re-read this sentence, and it still doesn't make sense. Drag performers are making performance art out of their own bodies, not other people's.

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Anonymous wrote:There is no way MCPS published curriculum with instructions to “make a shaming comment” to a child. Either someone internal to the school put their own spin into instructions, or the principals are reframing.

Regardless of how these religious groups try to spin this, MCPS isn’t trying to indoctrinate elementary kids regarding LGBTQ topics. They are trying to give them context about the other kids sitting next to them in the classroom, because they sure aren’t learning about it at home.

Like it or not, in public school in MCPS there will be children of every possible diversity in the classrooms, including children who are transgender and who have family members in the LGBTQ community.

Is a preK kid sitting next to a drag queen? Why are three and four year olds being taught about drag queens?

As per the current trend, if the preK kid says that zhey are a drag queen then we affirm it, so it is quite possible that some of them are.

Except that’s not true, but I’m sure you know that.
One or two books featuring a drag Queen will not make your kid a drag Queen…

True, but I don’t want to have to explain what a drag queen is. How do you even begin? It’s a man that dresses like a girl, except dresses aren’t just for girls because gender doesn’t exist. We adults can’t figure it out so how can we explain it to a child.

A drag queen is when a man does dress up for fun.. he might wear sparkly make up and glitter and wear a wig and then sometimes he tells jokes or sings songs for adults. And sometimes he’ll read a book to kids. It’s just for fun.
That’s literally what I said to my 4yo when we say a drag Queen at a restaurant in Rehoboth.

And, that's fine for when you go to the restaurant but for those of us not doing that, why does a four year old need to know?

Are we limiting the public school curriculum to a need-to-know basis, now?

Because age of child actually dictates A NEED TO KNOW. That is why porn is illegal for minors.

Huh. Do adults NEED TO KNOW about porn?

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Anonymous wrote:There is no way MCPS published curriculum with instructions to “make a shaming comment” to a child. Either someone internal to the school put their own spin into instructions, or the principals are reframing.

Regardless of how these religious groups try to spin this, MCPS isn’t trying to indoctrinate elementary kids regarding LGBTQ topics. They are trying to give them context about the other kids sitting next to them in the classroom, because they sure aren’t learning about it at home.

Like it or not, in public school in MCPS there will be children of every possible diversity in the classrooms, including children who are transgender and who have family members in the LGBTQ community.

Is a preK kid sitting next to a drag queen? Why are three and four year olds being taught about drag queens?

As per the current trend, if the preK kid says that zhey are a drag queen then we affirm it, so it is quite possible that some of them are.

Except that’s not true, but I’m sure you know that.
One or two books featuring a drag Queen will not make your kid a drag Queen…

True, but I don’t want to have to explain what a drag queen is. How do you even begin? It’s a man that dresses like a girl, except dresses aren’t just for girls because gender doesn’t exist. We adults can’t figure it out so how can we explain it to a child.

It's a man who dresses up for fun in fancy clothes, like princess costumes.

There, now you don't have to be afraid of "Pride Puppy" anymore! Hooray!

This is okay so long as you add “often the men make fun of women when they are doing the dress-up and it’s not very nice.”

And they often talk and engage in lewd and crude sexual play while in drag.

This is very true. I have a relative who is a drag king. Social media posts include a lot of suggestive hip thrusting and dollar bills stuffed down pants. Not the dream we have for any of our daughters (or sons).

You can tell your children that you disapprove of this relative. That is your choice as a parent.