![]() Drag Race helped me escape that world, but their world was never really made for me either. I've talked before about having been a sex worker and escorting as a means for survival and to help pay for my transition. If I hadn't competed, it would have been very different. I'm very grateful to have been given the platform to compete on Drag Race and also to have been the first trans woman to come out on the show. When I read RuPaul's comments, unfortunately, I wasn't surprised. When pressed to explain how this policy would translate to trans women, particularly with regard to Peppermint - the season nine runner-up and the show’s first openly trans contestant - RuPaul’s answer was not only disappointingly short-sighted, it was dangerous in its implications. “Drag loses its sense of danger and its sense of irony once it’s not men doing it,” he said. When first asked about allowing “bio queens” (cisgender female drag queens) to compete, he seemed firmly against it. What followed revealed the depth of RuPaul's exclusionary ideas about who and what constitutes “true” drag, at least in his eyes, sparking furor among many in the drag community over the past few days. ![]() ![]() ![]() This weekend, in a profile published by The Guardian, RuPaul - America’s best-known drag queen, whose show RuPaul’s Drag Race near-single handedly transformed a once-underground art form into a mainstream American obsession - was asked whether he would allow "biological" women or transgender women to compete on his show. ![]()
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