Would a drag Queen be considered a TS girl?

[gugaxamot]

Would a drag Queen be considered a TS girl? I have always been curious.

Guga

[MdR Dave]

No.

No.

[gugaxamot]

why not? I truly want to understand the nuances.

[saifan]

Drag queens are men who dress as women for entertainment purposes. There are a few exceptions I'm sure but they identify as men and live as such in their private lives.

[EvaCassini]

NO

TV/CD are not TS/TG.

Big difference. Just because you dress as a woman for entertainment, does not mean you are transitioning like a TS/TG for making the outside match the inside by means of hormones and surgeries.

[LadyTSFrancine]

Would a drag Queen be considered a TS girl? I have always been curious.

Guga

Yes, we can consider drag queens as TS Girl too...

some of My friends here in Phils are drag queens... they are totally living the same way as TGirl. It just came that they are looks like a gay men in their private lives.

[EvaCassini]

Do u not see the difference??? Drag Queens ( i.e. Crossdresser/ TransVESTITE ) play dress up and dance for cash! As a HOBBY/side job

TransSEXUAL/TransGENDER ( Tgirls ) girls like myself, transition our bodies for our mental well being and normality of being the person we feel we should be PHYSICALLY and MENTALLY.

[GroobySteven]

Yes, we can consider drag queens as TS Girl too...

some of My friends here in Phils are drag queens... they are totally living the same way as TGirl. It just came that they are looks like a gay men in their private lives.

That's incorrect Francine.
A gay man who dresses as a woman as a drag queen (generally a name for entertainment purposes) is not a transsexual in any such way, shape or form.

A TV or CD - a man who dresses as he enjoys dressing as a girl yet doesn't identify with being a female in life, is not a transsexual.

A "tgirl" - is a word that can encompass anyone falling into the "trans*" spectrum and this could be transvestite, transsexual or anything in-between.

A transsexual identifies as and generally lives as a female fulltime. They do not consider themselves as men dressing in woman's clothing.

A shemale, is purely a porn term and does not necessarily refer to any one, or all, of the above terms.

[jennylicious]

You've fallen into a label trap. Sylvia Rivera was a drag queen, but it wasn't her job. Fortunately, we lived in more enlightened times and transgender people don't have to identify with their sex in this way. If Sylvia was born 30 years later, she would never have used the term about herself. However, since she wasn't, she would have fought you if you had tried to take that name away from her. I think Sylvia earned the right to have her type of Drag Queen asserted here.


In terms of the UK and the US, a drag queen is someone who goes out and performs. That's a job. The thing is though, technically you have to impersonate the opposite sex, which makes this an unlikely career choice. So a transsexual girl in the early days of transition could indeed perform on stage as a man pretending to be a woman, but I can't help feel that is absolutely not what she would want to do.

More importantly, as Francine put it, in her country they would consider a drag performer as a TS girl. That's the real danger of labels.

However, if you are asking if the people on Ru Paul's drag race are considered TS. Not in the way we use the term in the US or the UK. It's a job. While they may or may not be, it's unlikely, and the job itself does not have any direct, or indirect, association with their gender.

[LadyTSFrancine]

Thanks for giving much more ideas about those Drag queens..

appreciate it... if I do got a wrong perceptions with them.,!