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Trannies vs. Drag Queens: How the Gay Left is Tearing Itself Apart
You'd have needed a heart of stone to resist whooping with joy when Austria's Eurovision entry, a bearded drag queen called Conchita Wurst, snatched the tiara on Saturday night. Wurst's version of "Rise Like A Phoenix" is what would happen if a talented Mariah Carey drag act landed a Bond theme...in other words, ethereal, theatrical perfection. But one thing it wasn't, as some people are supposing, was a victory for "transgender acceptance."
That's not just because Britain didn't, in fact, vote for her. (U.K. voters preferred the Polish girls with the big boobs and lascivious smirks.) It's because catty, absurd, melodramatic drag queens like Wurst have next to nothing in common with transsexuals - that is, people who believe they were born with the wrong genitals - and if there's one thing transgender campaigners can't stand, it's someone else hogging the limelight.
What you might not realize is that Conchita's victory was the latest turn in a burgeoning war that threatens to rip apart the gay Left, pitting gay men in dresses against self-appointed tranny spokeswomen in a savage spectacle of back-stabbing and hair-pulling. And I'm setting my stall out now on the side of the drag queens, who stand for liberation, free expression and a glorious "fuck-you" attitude to which I think readers of this website will relate.Also read: New Oberlin College policy would mandate transgender sensitivity training for entire athletics department
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