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Walton Goggins In Drag refers to a reaction meme featuring Hollywood actor Walton Goggins wearing a brown wig, earrings, and a dress. The image of Walton Goggins dressed as a woman comes from an episode of the drama series Sons of Anarchy where the actor plays a transgender sex worker named Venus Van Dam. The meme grew popular online, particularly on Twitter / X, in March 2025.

Origin

Walton Goggins began playing the role of a transgender sex worker named Venus Van Dam in the FX television show Sons of Anarchy in September 2012, during the show's fifth season.^[1]

His character Venus is romantically tied to a character named Tig, as seen in the following scene from season 7, episode 4, uploaded to YouTube^[2] by Jerry Friedrich on October 1st, 2014.

The earliest known notable use of a still showing Walton Goggins smiling while dressed as Venus was posted on March 4th, 2025 by X^[3] user @PaIIahAbdul in response to a photo of Miley Cyrus captioned, "why she kinda look like walton goggins here……." The post gathered over 53,000 likes in two weeks.

Spread

On March 12th, 2025, Twitter / X^[4] user @jhoiras shared the same photo of Goggins dressed as a woman, writing, "how it feels when a coworker asks for your pronouns," gathering over 18,000 likes in a week.

On March 21st, 2025, Twitter / X^[5] user @elliotconk posted the image of Walton Goggins as Venus Van Dam, writing, "Accidentally brought bf to permanently closed restaurant for lunch," and gathering over 180,000 likes in three days.

On March 22nd, 2025, Twitter / X^[6] user @Vessyteena posted the image of Goggins alongside text that read, "Knowing that a whole generation of men have been ruined beyond repair by the internet and we have to deal with that for the rest of our lives." The post gathered over 80,000 likes in two days.

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