An Argument Against Drag Queen Story Telling For Kids (Say) 10 And Under

They have, I say, an ideological agenda behind them. 

They’re meant to say as subtext that gender is fluid and male and female are easily interchangeable categories, sex notwithstanding. 

I say little kids don’t need such messages and their benefit for outlier kids who are genuinely uncomfortable, so to say, in their own sexual skins is outweighed by among other factors:

(1) the confusion inhering in this message for most little kids who don’t understand gender and are generally at peace who they are as little boys and little girls; 

(2) presenting tempting but rigid and misunderstood categories of being—male female—for unhappy, confused or disturbed kids who may desperately cling to them as  misconceived solutions for emotional problems other than gender dysphoria; 

(3) generally normalizing the emotional imbalance of someone’s sex at odds with their sexual self understanding and self perception; 

(4) rather than the subtextual message of gender fluidity as a boon to dysphoric kids as a justification for such events, better for them to be given a chance normally to outgrow with support and sensitivity any such phases if phases they be and if more than phases then ongoing parental and family sensitivity and positive counselling; and 

(5) Where the ultimate upshot of this messaging is the personal mutilation (starting with puberty blockers) involved in completing the urge to transform one’s self sexually and where as kids get older and may be for varieties of reasons emotionally distraught and see their sexual transformation as the solution to their deep unhappiness, then the invidiousness of this early messaging becomes more readily apparent.