there is a difference in that “women’s” clothes and make up are gender, not biology.
Yes, and the reason so many women have fought against gender stereotyping is because those stereotypes are the expression of misogyny.
Make up, clothing styles, hair styles, even whether you shave your genitals - these are part of the biologically unnecessary expectations of women.
Add in demeanor, 'know your place', bitchy, hysterical, emotion-driven rather than logic-led, not as smart, over reacting, 'hun', prude, frigid, slut, loving all things soft, sparkly, fluffy and fucking unicorns, then you get into the realms of how men justify to themselves not giving women equal pay, or the right to vote, or how they used to justify marital rape, how they still justify FGM and the abortion of female foetuses, etc.
I don't care if a drag performer can do exquisite make up - I care that he's doing it because he thinks it screams 'woman'. Add in fishy, bitchy and the rest of it, and it's parody/mockery.
When drag artists stop worrying about their make up and start demonstrating and showing understanding of the effect of unpaid caring roles, lower pay, fewer opportunities, the damage from childbirth, FGM, the disproportionate number of DV cases, the rapes and sexual assaults whose perpetrators will never face conviction, then I'll stop seeing it as parody and believe they see women as more than one dimensional fodder for their act.
Since the reality of being female isn't very entertaining, I won't hold my breath.