A Pride event in Glasgow which banned drag queens has now said they will welcome trans, but not cis, performers to the event.

Free Pride Glasgow, a separate ‘anti-commercialist’ alternative to the city’s main Pride event, said originally they would not welcome any drag queens at their event next month.

‘It was felt by the group within the Trans/Non Binary Caucus that some drag performance, particularly cis drag, hinges on the social view of gender and making it into a joke, however transgender individuals do not feel as though their gender identity is a joke,’ the group said in a statement.

But now, after a lot of criticism, the event has now said they would like to offer trans drag performers an opportunity to perform.

They said: ‘The trans caucus and Free Pride as a whole thought protecting the privacy of trans drag performers was the most important thing, but trans drag performers have let us know that letting them perform is more important to them.

‘People appeared to understand that we attempted to communicate that trans drag performers’ rights are secondary to other trans people’s rights.

‘We did not mean to send this message and apologise to trans drag performers for unintentionally doing so. Unfortunately this also appears to have offended trans drag performers.

‘We did not in any way mean to equate cis (who are often seen as transmisogynistic by some portions of the Trans community) drag performers with trans drag performers.’