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Drag performance (especially on shows like RuPaul’s Drag Race ) occupies an ambiguous space. While drag queens and trans women share aesthetic and historical ties, the mainstreaming of drag has led to accusations of transphobia (e.g., use of slurs, exclusion of trans contestants). Drag is generally a performance of gender, while being transgender is an identity; conflating the two has been a source of frustration for many trans individuals (Barnett, 2020).

Consider ballroom culture. The voguing dance style popularized by Madonna in 1990 originated in the Harlem ballrooms of the 1960s, created by Black and Latinx trans women and gay men. The categories—"Realness" (passing as cisgender in daily life), "Face," and "Body"—were direct responses to trans survival. To walk a category was to perform a fantasy of safety and glamour that the real world denied. blackshemalepics

Thus, "transgender community" is not a monolith. There are distinct subcultures: the ballroom scene (made famous by Paris is Burning and Pose ), which was created by Black and Latinx trans women as a response to exclusion from white gay spaces; the asexual and non-binary trans community, which is challenging the idea that gender requires a relationship to sex; and the growing visibility of trans elders who survived the AIDS crisis and now advocate for trans-inclusive senior care. Drag performance (especially on shows like RuPaul’s Drag