"The Marvelous Miss Gender" Starring Bosco
Cain's Ballroom
August 10, 2026
It’s not a fun time to be trans. It seems like every day there’s a new enemy: a new bathroom bill, a new sports-related executive order, a new JK Rowling tweet. I’ve struggled to find bright spots lately amid the neverending horrors, but I found a bit of hope at Cain’s Ballroom on Monday night, when God’s Favorite Transsexual graced the Bob Wills stage.
Since her debut on season 14 of RuPaul’s Drag Race and her (dare I say) groundbreaking performance on All Stars 10, Bosco has quickly become a fan favorite among the campy, John-Waters-loving crowd. Though she’s since ditched her signature horns, she leans into her devilish persona with wit and straight-up sex appeal. Stopping at Cain’s on her first-ever solo tour, The Marvelous Miss Gender, Bosco gave a hilarious burlesque performance as a sultry villainness, hell-bent on turning the world trans because, if Bosco can’t use public restrooms, no one can! (Yes—the trans agenda: bottom surgery for everyone!)
In this universe, not too dissimilar to our own, Bosco is a diamond thief. Inviting the audience into her lair à la PeeWee’s Playhouse—an obvious inspiration for the show—Bosco jokes with us, confides in us about her hot date later that evening, and bosses around her nonbinary servants, the hench-thems.
Meanwhile, she’s being targeted by the Cisgender 7—an evil coalition of TERFs (trans exclusionary radical feminists, also known as the scum of the earth), Erika Kirk, Caitlyn Jenner, Joe Rogan disciples, and gay men who prefer their LGB without the T—and their leader, Jenn D’Rolls. As the Cis 7 attack Bosco one by one, she defeats them through evocative dance numbers to songs produced exclusively in the ‘80s. Complete with retro transition music straight out of Adam West’s Batman and striptease after striptease, Bosco fights her way all the way to TERF Island.
There she faces her greatest threat: the island’s mayor, leader of the Cis 7, the trans community’s loudest critic—Jenn D’Rolls, otherwise known as JK Rowling. Played via video by Drag Race royalty Alaska Thunderfuck, who cheekily read her lines from a prompter off screen, Rowling’s master plan is to enslave every millennial with a Deathly Hallows tattoo, turning them into mindless transphobic drones. She and Bosco battle it out until Bosco defeats her with an empowering dance number to—you guessed it—“I’m Every Woman.” I mean, come on. It doesn’t get better than this, y’all.
Aside from the campy humor of it all, Bosco is a natural at her craft. Her striptease to “Smooth Operator” gave me chills, and when she climbed into a massive glass of white wine for her pre-date bath, a chorus of gay people screamed from the audience. As she danced, we danced, enraptured by her slow, deliberate movement, her milky skin, and the signature, devilish point of her brows.
Even in the more serious moments, where Bosco lamented about the sociopolitical state of transness, there was levity. She hilariously disarmed a pair of Joe Rogan-style podcasters (both played by Bosco’s longtime collaborator, Irene the Alien, whose family is from Okmulgee) with a sensual striptease, forcing them to confront their deep-seated, hypocritical sexual shame. Later, she sat down across from Caitlyn Jenner, played by Macy Rodman, and tore into Jenner for abandoning her community for the conservative elite only to realize that she too wouldn’t be spared from Trump’s wrath. Rich or not, Jenner’s passport still says male.
Even the confrontation between Rowling and Bosco felt fraught within the campiness of the moment. We’ve all envisioned it: sitting JK down and begging her to understand how she’s hurting us, slapping her across the face, lasering off our Harry Potter tattoos. Bosco did all that with humor, grace, and a lot of skin. In the end, Rowling’s brand of transphobia is squandered, and Bosco decides she doesn't want to turn the world trans after all. Why? Out of respect for everyone’s own gender journeys? Nah. If everyone is trans, Bosco won’t be unique!
The Marvelous Miss Gender show was fun, light-hearted, sexy, and cathartic, reminding me of how resilient trans folks can be in the face of a barrage of anti-trans forces. Best of all, I found myself rejuvenated being around queer and trans Oklahomans. As everyone lined up to snag a Dan Rocky merch design, I felt proud to be from Tulsa, proud to be queer, proud to be trans. I think Bosco would be happy about this, though not as happy as she surely is about all the merch sales.
