7/1/2023 0 Comments A milk drag queen![]() ![]() It takes on a different thing it changes the whole concept of what we’re doing. You can identify as a woman and say you’re transitioning, but it changes once you start changing your body. Peppermint didn’t get breast implants until after she left our show she was identifying as a woman, but she hadn’t really transitioned.” Would he accept a contestant who had? He hesitates again. So how can a transgender woman be a drag queen? “Mmmm. In a recent Guardian profile, RuPaul said this in response the question of whether transgender women should be able to compete on the show: So, what happened? How did the tide turn on such a beloved figure? And why does this moment feel different from others? Well, get out the Crisco, because we’re going in deep.īut his comments on trans women have struck many as prejudiced and incorrect. ![]() The trans community are heroes of our shared LGBTQ movement. On Into, one trans writer and advocate, Precious Brady-Davis, wrote that she found RuPaul’s idea of drag “misogynist” and “repulsive” and that he needs to “catch up with the rest of the movement.” Former Drag Race contestant Willam called Ru out on Twitter and Instagram, writing, “We work with trans women every night side by side and for them to be denied the opportunities because of someone’s narrowminded view on what they call ‘drag’ is fucked.” Perhaps sensing the winds were shifting, RuPaul tweeted an apology, writing: “I understand and regret the hurt I have caused. ![]() It’s not the first time RuPaul has criticized the trans community, but it is the first time the backlash was so widespread and vociferous on Twitter. It all started when he commented that trans women who have begun physically transitioning should not be able to compete on his show, RuPaul’s Drag Race. Yesterday, after writing an inflammatory tweet, RuPaul did something uncharacteristic: He apologized. ![]()
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