When you think of North Carolina or of art museums do you immediately think “Drag Queens?”

I didn’t, but it is 2022 so of course I should have. If you are a member of the cultural elite your goal is get the kids indoctrinated while they are young. And what better place could you accomplish your goal than a museum.

For the North Carolina Museum of Art drag performances are “educational” opportunities should start young. Very young.

The North Carolina Museum of Art is hosting a "drag queen story hour" for children as young as two. The museum promises to promote the "gender fluidity of childhood" and unleash a "maelstrom of passion." pic.twitter.com/0hwKsaOhdH

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) October 17, 2022

Drag Queen Story Hours are so common these days that they fail to shock as much as they used to, but this one is particularly special. Kids can learn about the “gender fluidity of childhood” from Stormie Daie, who in addition to performing in lingerie in front of two year olds also teaches kids about science:

[Come see] Stormie Daie to read books that celebrate all the wonderful ways you are you!

Stormie is a daughter of Durham’s House of Coxx, the first drag family of Durham, NC. As a queen she always strives to bring joy to her fans, the Stormie Chasers. Whether twirling and twisting like the wind on stage, showing her lightning-fast wit on the mic, or hosting Science with Stormie, where she teaches the amazing wonders of science, Stormie is a maelstrom of passion, education, and lookin’ good! As a DQSH queen, she is always ready to READ the children and have a great time learning and laughing!

Because kids should learn the wonders of science from a man who believes he is a woman prancing around half naked being a “maelstrom of passion.” And young children are well known for their appreciation of “lightning fast wit.”

No, I am not kidding. They actually wrote those things. But don’t worry, they do keep really young kids away, warning that the show is “Best for ages 2 and up with adult caregivers.”

Oh, that is OK I guess.

You can tell that Stormie’s performance is going to be kid friendly because she is a “daughter of Durham’s House of Coxx.” Anybody who is a member of the “first drag family of Durham” is going to be totally kid friendly. Maybe after a day at the museum parents can follow up with a visit to the House of Coxx with their child.

There are so many things wrong with this it is hard to know where to start. For me the most striking thing about it is that Stormie is being presented as a science educator. What science, exactly? I would assume it is the “science” where male and female are social constructs, not biological realities.

Or maybe that she is a “maelstrom of passion.” Yeah, that’s it. I am old enough to still believe that children and maelstrom of passion don’t belong together.

Actually, I’ll go back to my original statement: this is wrong on so many levels, and undeniably about sexualizing children. I can’t pick just one thing to vent my outrage at.

Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) is just what it sounds like—drag queens reading stories to children in libraries, schools, and bookstores. DQSH captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood and gives kids glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models. In spaces like these, kids are able to see people who defy rigid gender restrictions and imagine a world where people can present as they wish, where dress-up is real.

We keep on being told that it is not fair to call this behavior grooming, but what else would you call it? The whole point of the exercise is spelled out in black and white: to provide “queer role models” before children would normally be sexualized. What child should be exposed to an explicitly sexualized “maelstrom of passion?”

These “kid friendly” drag shows are not innocent in any way. One could perhaps argue that drag queens behaving like runway models would be weird, but not obviously offensive and child abuse. I would argue that they are inappropriate, but I could possibly understand why a Liberal parent would disagree.

But that is not what these drag shows are. Men strut about in women’s lingerie while wildly gyrating, exposing their crotches, twerking, and making lewd sexual references. They often take money from children, and proudly announce that they are from the “House of Coxx.” The sponsors should be fired, funding for the institution should be cut, and the parents investigated by Child Services.

Except Child Services is probably corrupted too.

And the adults announce that the point of all this is to promote “gender fluidity.” This is hardly the same as teaching children to be tolerant of or even embracing of people who are odd or different: this is recruitment, and indisputably so. Grooming.

It is time to not only fight back, but to crush this movement. And at least some Republicans are willing to stand up and be counted:

BREAKING

Republicans are introducing the Stop the Sexualization of Children Act—the first bill to ensure that none of your tax dollars go to federal programs, state or local government agencies, or private orgs that expose children under 10 to sexually explicit material.

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— Rep. Mike Johnson (@RepMikeJohnson) October 18, 2022

It is difficult to believe, but we are at a point in our culture when stopping the sexualization of children is controversial–and opposed by almost every Democrat and member of the cultural elite.

Disgusting.

UPDATE: After public pressure the drag show was canceled. We can win if we fight back:

BREAKING: Following a conservative pressure campaign, the North Carolina Museum of Art has canceled its drag queen performance, which had promised to promote "gender fluidity" and a "maelstrom of passion" to children as young as two years old. pic.twitter.com/azpiyyOOyg

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) October 20, 2022