I am not v comfy with drag as it's a caricature and often a nasty one of women, many women aren't but of course when a TW says it makes them uncomfortable that's a different story.
Anyway.
While I'm not super keen I'm also not wildly hating of it, I can see that it's a big part of certain strands of gay male culture and I can also see the appeal of dressing up so entirely as someone else (fancy dress is very freeing) and of course historically I guess it was a way to play with gender / explore feminine side for men in a society which was utterly hostile to the point of illegality. So I can kind of see it even though I'm not keen.
The interesting thing I was thinking last night is that when the guy was saying that when he's dragged up men treat him differently, even though they know he's a man, is that the response is to the trappings of femininity. The signals says "this is a woman" - the hair, makeup, heels, mannerisms etc - even if actually most women never dress or behave like that - more so than actually being a woman does. So the paraphernalia triggers men (and women probably as well) to treat him in a certain way irrespective of the fact they know he's a man. That's fascinating to me.
Of course then men observing this will see it as all about the trappings. They want to be treated a certain way - "as a woman" - and so need to adopt the trappings in order to trigger this behaviour. The fact that it works if the man says he's a man as well must be v disheartening.
Plus of course women get treated differently whether or not they have all that stuff on, because they are identified as women, but it's not necessarily the same way as the heels and glamour trigger which seems to be a thing all in itself and unisex to a point. It's the low pay, the expectation of shitwork, the being talked over, the not listening, the day to day graft of being a woman that is different. Those are not the things triggered by "glamour".
No wonder many TW are confused.