How to complain about Drag Queen Story Time

[ElizabethJaneHenchard]

I'm going to a venue tonight that is hosting the Drag Queen Story Time later this year.
How do I complain about this, without seeming like a right-wing reactionary?
Do I hand in a letter, talking about safeguarding concerns, or how should I approach it? I will obviously be boycotting the venue from now on, if they have such a weak grasp of safeguarding, but I would like to do more than that.
What would you suggest?

Yeh, those mean women, spoiling men's rights to cosplay as women in an overtly sexualised way, while performing to children.

So what would happen if women turned up dressed as drag queens?🤔

Well, I guess they wouldn't get erections, which has happened at DQST previously (albeit under rainbow sequins, so that's OK).

So I heard from someone working close to Wokingham library today, that there were seven police vans and two police cars. Apparently it was peaceful demo but the signs were described as offensive and protestors weren’t local.

I can’t verify this but what was made clear by council leading up to event, the police presence doesn’t surprise me. Disappointed that there were resources for this when it doesn’t appear to be needed. Those poor children, well the parents/adults must have been quite unnerved by the number of police. The children probably quite like seeing the vans.

The kids would learn more from seeing the police cars and officers than some nightclub act…

the signs were described as offensive and protestors weren’t local

The TRA's are shameless when it comes to children, they have no idea about what is acceptable.

“Aida H Dee performed at Oxfordshire County Library as part of a UK tour designed to inform youngsters about the LGBTQ+ community.”

Rage
What information does it give about:
Lesbians?
Gay men?
Bi-sexual people?
All on the basis of a man dressing up as a woman, in a figure revealing (as a man) sequinned costume, with big hair and make up?

And what about TQ?
LGB is a sexual orientation.
T says there is no sex to orient towards.
They contradict each other.
There is no meaning to the ‘community’.

Q just means it’s great to have no boundaries about anything, let’s all be confused. That’s what stands out.

it also is a stupid, mindless, copying of American madness like chlorinated chicken and sugar fed beef. Something unworthwhile from the US the U.K. can do without.

Check out the Safer Schools Alliance for some help on this. Drag queens with highly sexual / politicised social media reading to toddlers with the outline of his penis visible? If anyone is super keen on this idea, you can pop across the water to the USA where children do slut drops and twerk for drag queens. The biggest safeguarding concern is that the bloke seems to be able to get away with things the average person working with kids never, ever would. Say NO to DQSH.

Brilliant comment about the contradiction between LGB and the T. Sex or gender, which is it? Let's not confuse children anymore than we already are. And let's get gender ideology out of schools while we're at it. Children are taught that gender non-conformity is an illness that requires medicalisation. Disgusting. Children should be taught this: You ARE your body. Your body IS you. Don't listen to this unscientific garbage about gender identity.

Correct Not Political are a good channel for livestreaming the TRA madness, they're going to be in Brighton in September for Kellie-Jay's Let Women Speak event

Yeah I think if you need to be asking questions about how sexual it's likely to be, then that's a clear red flag. Have you seen how some drag queens behave with children in America? It's beyond inappropriate.

Add that to:

• The outline of his penis on display
• His sexual / politicised story hour social media, including "love has no age".
• Shouting down women online (is the "role model" we want for our children?)
• He's raising money for Mermaids (look them up, they send binders to children)
• His investment in gender ideology. They teach this in schools (and they absolutely should not).
• His insistence on "breaking down barriers". What barriers? "Love has no age?" His words, not mine.

The idea that this guy could do or say just about anything and no one would say anything because he waves the LGBT flag is the biggest safeguarding concern for me. People are overlooking so much already. Any average person in skin tight clothing in the children's section of a library would be monitored closely, not hired to do an event.

No to DQSH.

How is that inclusive? Children's events in libraries should cater to MOST people. This does not. It's exclusive by its very nature. It's also taxpayers' money and taking place in a public building. Parents have the right to ASSUME the appropriateness of events in a public library, not feel forced to ask questions about whether it's overly sexual in nature. Drag with kids has gone way too far in the US. We don't want that here. No to DQSH.

Absolutely. Not child-centred. But the children don't seem to matter here. This is about male ego and freedom of expression from one side only? Women are silenced / reported / getting chucked off Twitter for saying that TWAM but this bloke can say anything offensive he likes online, then he comes into our libraries parodying women and reads to our children? He literally advocates for males to be put into female prisons (utterly dangerous) and is a gender extremist. No to DQSH.

He is also raising money for Mermaids....

Thanks for reporting back Gobbelino. I was wondering how this had gone.
It seems absolutely mad to use resources on this. I can only assume that he library service sees themselves as the champions of free speech.

@ nononsense29 · Today 17:34
I had written:

“And what about TQ?

LGB is a sexual orientation.
T says there is no sex to orient towards.
They contradict each other.”

Brilliant comment about the contradiction between LGB and the T. Sex or gender, which is it?

Thank you, it is brilliant but I did not think of it myself! I heard Mr Menno explain this to Glinner I think.

How does a man who has "Love has no age" on his story hour social media understand boundaries between what's ok for adults and what's ok for children? It's not exactly a glowing endorsement of his "skills". Children can find this page within minutes online. Check out his social media. OK for children, is it?

Also, he can't tuck his penis for the children's events, so it's not quite so visible? Can't even manage that? Why's that then? I'd say he absolutely doesn't understand boundaries.

And that's without mentioning the elephant in the room... "drag for kids".

Please....

He thinks men can be lesbians and is nasty to women online. It's online for anyone to see. He's a role model for queer kids, apparently. Except the children don't understand that word and barely any adult uses it as it used to be a gay slur. They're not to know he's a queer role model specifically. Any kids who feel they might be "queer" surely don't relate to adult drag. How does it inform their homosexuality, exactly? What are they learning? If it's how to dress up, kids have got this covered. How insulting to conflate drag with the expression of a sexual orientation... Am I missing something?

I would ask why he is getting paid so much at a time when librarians are so badly paid and under-supported by councils and schools. He is not very good at storytelling and he promotes his own terrible books. The council near me pay their cleaners more than they pay their librarians. I would also question why some councils are employing this person to visit nurseries and schools.

The protest has been portrayed as a spectacular own goal locally. Focus has been on the presence of Piers Corbyn shouting at children and adults/parents with a megaphone. Reported as a very small group but again, any questioning of why this event celebrates inclusiveness is shut down especially with the presence of Corbyn there. Shouting at/ near small children is never going to make people stop and think about why they are protesting.

In terms of free publicity, I would say Aida/ Seb couldn’t ask for more. My silent protest was to book tickets and not turn up. A bit pointless I guess.

I would also question why some councils are employing this person to visit nurseries and schools.

It's about intoducing the idea of transhumanism to children at as young an age as possible.

I agree about if it was truly about visibility it would be disabled people, perhaps gay parents, female firefighters etc. I saw an author on twitter getting upset about how there was a protest outside her local library when ‘AidaHDeeDrag’ was performing. She was sad she couldn’t take her one year old, when it was aimed at older children, and upset about the protest. She wrote a letter in support of it and it showing her son that when he grows up he can be whoever he wants to be.

Totally progressive that her son now knows he can grow up to be a man in a tight dress around his crotch reading stories to kids while named after a neuro diverse condition. Yay.

If I was gay I’d be getting quite perturbed by the way in which LGB people are being represented within this. I’m pretty sure they’re just wanting to live their lives vs cling filming themselves into clothing and putting a display on in libraries.

I disagree, anything that spreads the word and let's the glorious sunlight flood in has to be a good thing.

Our numbers are growing bigger and with all the new people brought to this fight thanks to DQSH the TRAs are going to be in for a shock at upcoming GC events.

Maybe there were some female police officers there so it’s not a complete failure on the diversity front. Likely paid less than the average drag queen but we can’t have it all.

Wow what a holey thread.
To the question as to why parents take their kids: parents are tired and looking for something to do whilst they can sit back for a bit. They trust the Library to put on good content. Drag is shown on the BBC right, it must be ok? Drag is taking advantage of this.

To the question of 'how can we fight this': yes indeed it is difficult as the BBC has been pushing drag content so long - it is plain wrong, just more people need to understand and complain - oh and journalists step up.

As for claiming that drag queens don't fall into the same category as men and sex offenders - what nonsence, they are men mocking women to their faces and we are supposed to find this funny. Was it 98% of sex crimes are commited by men?
Womanface - dressing up and mocking women has had it's day as have all the other 'faces'.

There is nothing right wing or reactionary about decency or appropriateness for kids. Anyone with any brains knows that a drag queen is a sexualised act meant for adults. I would not want kids to be read to by such a person any more than by a pole dancer or a stripper. It sends out entirely the wrong message. Such things are not ‘progressive’ merely inappropriate.