Discovery+ Show ‘Generation Drag’ Celebrates the World of Child Grooming

Discovery+ launched six episodes of the series last week. Generation DragAn exploitative documentary about five teenage drag queens. It follows them as they get ready for Dragutante in Denver, Colorado.

Each child receives a drag mom, an adult drag queen that “mentors” the children. Some of these queens refer to the child they mentor as “my child,” giving the whole interaction a cult-like feel. 

Many of the kids have been exposed to gender ideology and pride activity early and often. Many feel different and struggle to find friends in their daily lives. Everyone is vulnerable.

Vinny, a 12-year-old from Denver was introduced to drag by his mother at the Denver Pride Parade when he was 10. Vinny, who is now 12, says that he first realized he had been gay when he reached seven years of age. He felt more feminine than male and was always drawn to the arts. His “sassy, gay boy” persona is what he uses to portray his personal struggles.

Vinny said at one time, “When it involves my dad there’s a lot of pressure.” “He was a cool, famous, and great guy growing up. He does all the best, and it is stressful for me.

Vinny’s dad wants desperately to relate to his son and, with Vinny’s mother, throws himself into making sure Vinny creates a superior drag performance. “Game day!” his dad says when Dragutante arrives. All this leaves Vinny feeling even more stressed and overwhelmed. 

Vinny isn’t necessarily the most vulnerable of the youth featured in the show. Jameson, 17, who performs drag under the name of “Ophelia Peaches”, is the oldest. He is the son of a single mother and considers himself to be “genderfluid,” experiencing male emotions some days while feeling feminine others. For his drag performance, he writes a heartbreaking song about his father’s rejection of him as a child. 

Other fathers in the series are present and less pressuring in their children’s lives but confused and convinced they must embrace their child’s new “gender identity.” 

The father of Nabela, a 12-year-old drag queen who “came out” as trans in the fourth grade, didn’t know the meaning of the word transgender when he first heard it.

He said, “I had no idea she understood what that meant.”

Nabela’s family is of Mexican heritage and her Catholic grandmother shows no interest in seeing her perform in drag. Much of Nabela’s story involves trying to get the sweet old lady to celebrate her granddaughter’s drag lifestyle. One wishes the family would leave the poor abuela alone. 

However, respecting family boundaries does not fall under the LGBTQUIA umbrella. When another male-to-female trans teen named Noah decides he doesn’t want any family pictures from when he was a boy on the walls, his parents take down the photos. 

Aurora Sexton is Noah’s “drag mother”. Sexton’s talent management entails that his work “always pushes the envelope of morality, decency and taste.” You can find Sexton’s risqué drag oeuvre on YouTube, but I don’t recommend it.

Sexton visits Noah in episode four, ‘Just Be a Queen.’ During the visit, Noah shows Sexton female panties he has created with a felt uterus shape sewn in. Noah sewn uteruses to his underwear as a way of expressing sadness at not being able to have a baby. Sexton asks Noah to make him uterus panties too. 

Noah is dating genderfluid Jameson. In truth, Noah and Jameson are two males dating. A generation ago they would have just been considered homosexual males, but nowadays “gay” is passe.

Lastly, the show profiles Bailey, a girl who says she’s a boy and dresses up as a drag female. She is actually a short-haired girl who was a theatre kid during an older era. Bailey is very creative and sensitive. As a child, Bailey was a tomboy. Her social interactions are difficult and she has no friends. Bailey has some symptoms that she might be autistic, and her parents don’t seem to have considered this possibility. They have chosen to accept the “gender spectrum” instead.

The whole series is heartbreaking. It’s sad to watch sensitive, struggling or damaged youth be groomed as they fall further down the rainbow rabbit hole. Generation DragHollywood is promoting child indoctrination, and this movie shows it.