Justin Trudeau has been slammed for going on the Drag Race television franchise when Canadian’s argue he should be focusing on staving off the cost of living crisis.
Trudeau’s appearance on the new season of Canada‘s Drag Race was announced Tuesday, with the show posting a picture of the PM beaming next to a drag queen, saying: ‘We’re making herstory.’
A trailer for the season, entitled Canada vs The World, shows the prime minister meeting contestants, who compete to become the ‘next drag superstar.’ It is scheduled to premiere on November 18.
But soon after, backlash mounted on social media amid controversies over drag shows that involve young children after footage has emerged showing performers posing sexually in front of young children.
Amy Eileen Hamm, the cofounder of the Canadian Women’s Sex-Based Rights coalition, asked whether Trudeau will ‘combine womanface AND blackface,’ as Paul Oakley, the former spokesman for the UK Independence Party, tweeted: ‘A keen advocate of…
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