Editing Drag queen (section)

===Alternative terms===
[[File:Khookha McQueer autoportrait 5.jpg|thumb|[[Khookha McQueer]], Tunisian drag queen]]
Some drag queens may prefer to be referred to as "[[gender-specific pronoun|she]]" while in drag and desire to stay completely in character.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://transequality.org/issues/resources/understanding-drag |title=Understanding Drag |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=28 April 2017 |website=transequality.org |publisher=National Center for Transgender Equality |access-date=13 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180310044748/https://transequality.org/issues/resources/understanding-drag |archive-date=10 March 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> Other drag performers are indifferent to which pronoun is used to refer to them. RuPaul has said, "You can call me he. You can call me she. You can call me [[Live with Kelly and Ryan|Regis and Kathie Lee]]; I don't care! Just so long as you call me."<ref>{{citation|author=RuPaul|title=Lettin' It All Hang Out: An Autobiography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mq-HAAAAIAAJ|publisher=Hyperion Books|date=June 1995|page=139|isbn=9780786881659|author-link=RuPaul}}</ref>

Drag queens are sometimes called [[transvestism|transvestites]], although that term also has many other connotations than the term ''drag queen'' and is not much favored by many drag queens themselves.<ref>Ford, Zack. "[https://thinkprogress.org/the-quiet-clash-between-transgender-women-and-drag-queens-297a9da4c5f6/ The Quiet Clash Between Transgender Women And Drag Queens] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170909234311/https://thinkprogress.org/the-quiet-clash-between-transgender-women-and-drag-queens-297a9da4c5f6/ |date=2017-09-09 }}." ThinkProgress, 25 June 2014. Web. 9 September 2017.</ref> The term ''tranny,'' an abbreviation of the term transvestite, has been adopted by some drag performers, notably RuPaul,<ref>{{cite web |last=Spargo |first=Chris |date=15 January 2012 |title=NEW: RuPaul's 'Tranny' Conroversy<!--sic--> |url=http://www.newnownext.com/rupaul-tranny-lance-bass-drag-race/01/2012/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004213445/http://www.newnownext.com/rupaul-tranny-lance-bass-drag-race/01/2012/ |archive-date=4 October 2013 |access-date=6 October 2013 |publisher=NewNowNext}}</ref> and the gay male community<ref>{{cite web |last=Musto |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Musto |date=12 November 2010 |title=Is "Tranny" So Bad? |url=http://blogs.villagevoice.com/dailymusto/2010/11/is_tranny_so_ba.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004221132/http://blogs.villagevoice.com/dailymusto/2010/11/is_tranny_so_ba.php |archive-date=4 October 2013 |access-date=6 October 2013 |publisher=Blogs.villagevoice.com}}</ref> in the United States, but it is considered offensive to most transgender and transsexual people.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bilerico.com/2008/09/is_tranny_offensive.php |title=Is 'Tranny' Offensive? |work=Bilerico Report / LGBTQ Nation |publisher=The Bilerico Project |date=9 September 2008 |access-date=6 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004213214/http://www.bilerico.com/2008/09/is_tranny_offensive.php |archive-date=4 October 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Many drag performers refer to themselves as drag artists, as opposed to drag queens, as some contemporary forms of drag have become [[nonbinary]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Knauf |first1=Ana Sofia |title=Person of Interest: Arson Nicki |url=https://www.thestranger.com/features/2017/02/01/24834816/person-of-interest |website=The Stranger |publisher=Tim Keck |access-date=1 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701030804/https://www.thestranger.com/features/2017/02/01/24834816/person-of-interest |archive-date=1 July 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Lam |first1=Teresa |title=Getting to Know Non-Binary Drag Artist Rose Butch |url=https://hypebae.com/2018/6/rose-butch-non-binary-drag-performer-lgbtq-pride-month-vancouver-canada-interview |website=Hypebae |date=30 June 2018 |access-date=1 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701083100/https://hypebae.com/2018/6/rose-butch-non-binary-drag-performer-lgbtq-pride-month-vancouver-canada-interview |archive-date=1 July 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> In Brazil, [[androgynous]] drag performers are sometimes called ''drag [[queer]]'', as a form of [[gender neutrality]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=December 2018 |title=Esta página criou um guia ilustrado de nomenclaturas LGBTI pra ninguém mais se confundir |url=https://www.hypeness.com.br/2018/12/esta-pagina-criou-um-guia-ilustrado-de-nomenclaturas-lgbti-pra-ninguem-mais-se-confundir/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220228193451/https://www.hypeness.com.br/2018/12/esta-pagina-criou-um-guia-ilustrado-de-nomenclaturas-lgbti-pra-ninguem-mais-se-confundir/ |archive-date=2022-02-28 |work=Hypeness}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Santos |first=David Ceccon dos |date=2017 |title=Drag-queer Alma Negrot : o corpo como montagem artística |url=https://lume.ufrgs.br/handle/10183/202438 |journal=[[UFRGS]] |hdl=10183/202438 |access-date=2021-08-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Buscando trabalho artístico, drag queer brasileira posa pra Vogue: "Não quero ser cosplay de mulher" – Pheeno |url=https://pheeno.com.br/2019/05/buscando-trabalho-artistico-drag-queer-brasileira-posa-pra-vogue-nao-quero-ser-cosplay-de-mulher/ |access-date=2021-08-13 |website=pheeno.com.br|date=23 May 2019 }}</ref>

Among drag queens and their contacts today, there is an ongoing debate about whether transgender drag queens are actually considered "drag queens". Some argue that, because a drag queen is defined as a man portraying a woman, transgender women cannot be drag queens. [[Drag king]]s are women who assume a masculine aesthetic, but this is not always the case, because there are also biokings, bioqueens, and [[Female queen (drag)|female queens]], which are people who perform their own biological sex through a heightened or exaggerated gender presentation.<ref>{{Cite book|doi=10.4324/9780203057094|title=The Drag Queen Anthology|year=2013|last1=Underwood|first1=Lisa|isbn=9780203057094}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://academic.eb.com/?target=%2Flevels%2Fcollegiate%2Farticle%2Fdrag-queen%2F627517|title=Britannica Academic|website=academic.eb.com|access-date=5 December 2018|archive-date=22 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200922085318/https://academic.eb.com/?target=%2Flevels%2Fcollegiate%2Farticle%2Fdrag-queen%2F627517|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Barnett|first1=Joshua Trey|last2=Johnson|first2=Corey W.|date=November 2013|title=We Are All Royalty|journal=Journal of Leisure Research|volume=45|issue=5|pages=677–694|doi=10.18666/jlr-2013-v45-i5-4369|bibcode=2013JLeiR..45..677B |s2cid=143305970|issn=0022-2216}}</ref>