I get that drag is a more sexual stage thing in America, but in the UK most of of our performers are more like shrill comedy acts. You get nowhere as a drag queen here without having a vicious wit and a lot have been pretty mainstream. Look up Lily Savage.

I think it's got something to do with our pantomime dame tradition. Dressing up as women for comedy roles has been standard in a lot of our comedy TV series.

Having said that, cross dressing is a well known risk factor for being a sex offender in men.

You'd honestly be safer getting strippers to read to the kids. The odds of them turning out to be an kiddy fiddler are phenomenally lower.