Explainer: the difference between being transgender and doing drag

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twitter: 57 X users

wikipedia: 1 Wikipedia page
reddit: 7 Redditors

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Title	Explainer: the difference between being transgender and doing drag
Published by	The Conversation
DOI	10.64628/aa.esaapua6d
Authors	McIntyre, Joanna
Abstract	There is still a lot of misunderstanding about what being transgender means and how it relates to drag.

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country	Count	As %
Australia	15	26%
United States	7	12%
United Kingdom	4	7%
Canada	1	2%
Portugal	1	2%
Sri Lanka	1	2%
Korea, Republic of	1	2%
Ireland	1	2%
Unknown	26	46%

Demographic breakdown

Type
Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	50	88%
Scientists	3	5%
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors)	3	5%
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals)	1	2%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 124. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 June 2025.

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