Drag queens sent to nursery schools to teach kids as young as two about ‘gender diversity’
Children as young as two are taught specially adapted songs by performers including Donna La Mode
NURSERY school toddlers are getting lessons from drag queens to teach them about “gender fluidity”.
Children as young as two are taught specially adapted songs by performers including Donna La Mode.
Among ditties suggested for the London sessions is a version of Wheels on the Bus, which goes: “The skirt on the drag queen goes swish, swish, swish.”
Men in women’s clothes are teaching kids as young as two — including one who dressed as Alice in Wonderland — at seven Government-funded nurseries to stop them committing hate crimes in later life.
Youngsters learn specially-adapted trans songs at the sessions and are told stories — one about a teddy bear which realises it is a girl and not a boy.
The Drag Queen Story Time classes are held by Bristol University law graduate Thomas Canham, 26. He hopes they will soon be rolled out across all 37 centres run by the London Early Years Foundation.
Among those delivering the lessons is Donna La Mode — dubbed The Fairy Queen of the drag world — who dressed as Alice to read to children at a Bristol community centre.
Donna tweeted snaps of herself in August, saying: “We packed out our biggest space.”
Mr Canham got the idea from the US and said an example of a song they might use was: “The skirt on the drag queen goes swish, swish, swish” — to the tune of kids’ favourite Wheels on the Bus.
He said of the drag queens: “It makes perfect sense. They’re performers, larger than life! It is exactly what children want.”
Asked if tots were too young to learn of gender fluidity, he said: “We’re not aiming to pitch narratives, just introducing the concept of it existing.”
Foundation chief exec June O’Sullivan said: “By providing spaces in which children can see people who defy rigid gender restrictions, it allows them to imagine the world in which people can present themselves as they wish.”
But gender dysphoria expert Prof Ashley Gross- man said: “Only a tiny proportion of children develop dysphoria, this seems a little misguided.
“I’m sure it’s with the best intentions but it could have the reverse impact.”