 West responded to critics who question if children are too young to experience drag, saying “Drag is an opportunity for anyone – including and especially children – to reconsider the masks we are all forced to wear daily.” West added, “Children are inundated with implicit imagery from media about what is ‘boy’ and what is ‘girl.’ And I believe that almost all kids are really less concerned about playing with a toy that's supposedly aligned to their gender, and more concerned with playing with toys that speak to them.”
John Casey, an adjunct professor at Wagner College in New York City, posits in "The Advocate",

The phenomena of drag kids is relatively recent, "The New York Times" notes that as of September 2019 there are over a hundred public drag kids in the U.S., with Desmond is Amazing as the one with the most followers.The mainstream access to drag queens on television exponentially increased in 2009 when "RuPaul’s Drag Race s"tarted airing.Drag has come to be a celebrated aspect of modern gay life.