A surge of proposed drag bans, which would bar “male or female impersonators” from appearing where children could see them, form part of a very contemporary moral panic—but the ideologies at their core are nothing new
Kit Heyam
Kit Heyam is an English-speaking writer, academic, trainer and heritage practitioner, based in Leeds, U.K. They are the author of Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender (Basic Books UK/Seal Press, 2022), as well as a tenor horn player and enthusiast of wet moorland walks.