A: Drag is performance (usually a cis man dressing as a woman for entertainment). Being Trans is identity (living as your authentic gender 24/7). A drag queen goes home and takes off the wig; a trans woman goes home and is still a woman.
Without trans people, there would be no Pride as we know it. Marsha P. Johnson, a trans woman, threw the first brick at Stonewall. Never erase the T from history.
Myth: Being trans is "new." False. Two-spirit people existed in Indigenous cultures for millennia. The Hijra community in South Asia has been documented for 4,000 years.
First, a definition: Being transgender means your internal sense of gender differs from the sex you were given at birth. This is not a "lifestyle." It is an innate identity, like being left-handed.
