I'm not outraged at all you dork, you're all worked up over a silly moral panic and I'm trying to temper the conversation.
Because it's a false association. There's some dubious rumors about drag performers being inappropriate with kids. Even if that's true, they aren't all the same, and there's plenty of regular looking folks that are actual predators trying to blend in. Putting on a dress doesn't make someone a deviant, that's the point. People are getting all worked up because they associate gayness and differences in gender expression automatically with sexual predators and pedophiles, but pedophiles don't look like that and don't draw attention to themselves. They're looking in the wrong place, their kids are much more likely to be abused by a creepy uncle.