GETTING DOWN WITH THE DRAGSTERS
This doesn’t seem at all perverse and exploitative. Not at all. Not even the slightest little bit. A drag show featuring performers with Down syndrome is currently touring North America.
This doesn’t seem at all perverse and exploitative. Not at all. Not even the slightest little bit. A drag show featuring performers with Down syndrome is currently touring North America:
A public art event in Grand Rapids, Michigan next month will feature men and women with Down syndrome performing as “drag queens” and “drag kings.”
A drag group known as “Drag Syndrome” is comprised of performers with Down syndrome, and is an LGBT activist's attempt to promote so-called “inclusion” ...
A local TV channel, Wood TV, reports that "some people may be concerned because people with Down syndrome have limited mental capacity that they might not have the ability to decide to take part or understand what they are taking part in."
Speaking of limited mental capacity, Justin Trudeau is a fan:
The organizers of the show, however, are defending the event.
“We sought them out because they are at the very highest level of disability drag,” said event organizer Jill Vyn of DisArt, a Grand Rapids organization that connects art and people with disabilities.
“Drag has never only been about sexuality,” DisArt co-founder Christopher Smit said. “Drag is about gender performance, drag is about expression. Drag is also about ridding the culture of really damaging stereotypes.”
In other stereotype-defying developments, transgender drugs bender hospital sender Evie Amati is now a sentence extender:
A woman who chased after three strangers in a 7-Eleven before attacking them with an axe will spend a further five years in jail after the “leniency” of her sentence was appealed.
Evie Amati, 27, was sentenced to nine years in jail in January for the terrifying 2017 attack in the Enmore 7-Eleven, in Sydney’s inner west.
Today, the Crown appealed the leniency of her sentence to the Court of Criminal Appeal.
She will now spend 14 years in jail with a non-parole period of eight years.
Amati, a transgender woman, pleaded not guilty on the grounds of mental illness and trauma from her gender reassignment operation but was found guilty by a jury’s unanimous verdict last August after a five-week trial.
After the verdict was read out, Amati threw herself over the dock and sobbed.
Oh, harden up, girl. Prison ain’t so bad. Also, you’ll be a guy again soon, which means you’ll regain all that valuable male privilege.