The type of person driving this pointless cultural war would like to make it seem that this is essentially all about men dressing up as women telling children things they shouldn't know — both erasing the fact that trans men exist, and deliberately linking both drag and transgenderism to sexual perversion and implied paedophilia while lumping the two groups together.
So let's keep the words we use sensible and devoid from (intended or unintended) bigotry.
Besides, drag queens and kings usually are not transgender¹. It is a type of performance featuring a carefully crafted, over-the-top persona, not a full-time endeavour, and it is, crucially, an act. A transgender person isn't acting.
1: I would guess not more so than other groups of people.
The type of person driving this pointless cultural war would like to make it seem that this is essentially all about men dressing up as women telling children things they shouldn't know — both erasing the fact that trans men exist, and deliberately linking both drag and transgenderism to sexual perversion and implied paedophilia while lumping the two groups together.
So let's keep the words we use sensible and devoid from (intended or unintended) bigotry.
Besides, drag queens and kings usually are not transgender¹. It is a type of performance featuring a carefully crafted, over-the-top persona, not a full-time endeavour, and it is, crucially, an act. A transgender person isn't acting.
1: I would guess not more so than other groups of people.