User:Aloe Andrews/C’s LGBTQ+ Drag and Performance Studies, Anti-Trans rhetoric, Anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric

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The discussion of transgender people in sports began in 2003. But recently the discussion has risen to new heights as it becomes increasingly common for either trans people joining sports, or people who have been in sports for years coming out as trans. Recently this topic has begun being researched by Communication Rhetors to find its effects on members of the Trans Community.

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Ken Paxton released a statement in 2022 over trans healthcare and it's danger due to some of the effects being permanent. The letter argues that this gender affirming care can be viewed on the grounds of child abuse, endangerment, and sterilization. Scholarship in rhetoric of transgender individuals in sports has agreed that these views stem from pre-existing sexism and racism, and expands, accepts, and encourages "othering". This rhetoric seeking to "other" can also be found in the discussion of trans people in sports. This comes as trans people are becoming increasingly more "out" in sports. Aligning with the afore mentioned rhetoric of othering, states, such as Idaho, have passed legislation like the "Fairness in Women’s Sports Act" that aim at banning trans women and girls in sports designated for women and girls.

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Queer performance, like drag, was not made from a desire to perform, but as an act of resistance. Performance through drag sought to become this resistance by being a spectacle and to grab the attention of audience members and make queer people be seen through this.

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One drag was made popular through TV shows like "RuPaul's Drag Race" became popular, drag has transitioned from something made to be a resistance piece of art to something now meant for entertainment for cisheteronormative society. Cisheteronormativity is defined and understood by LGBTQ+ rhetors as the institutions that uphold heteronormativity and cis-normativity. One part of the community has been hit by this new entertainment world is the Trans Community that not only goes against both of the cis and hetero normative standards of modern drag, but for trans women, places them into a new box of cisheteropatriarchalism. Also through drag an entire community has been built through the ways of this performative communication. Not only do drag performers have a community within themselves, they are also the central part of LGBTQ+ communities across the world with language that was originally used by drag performers is now commonly used amongst the queer community at large.