RuPaul鈥檚 Drag Race Star Jasmine Kennedie Comes Out As Trans
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RuPaul鈥檚 Drag Race star, Jasmine Kennedie, has come out as transgender, making Season 14 of the popular reality competition programme the most gender diverse ever.
In a statement on Twitter on February 19, the upbeat dance queen wrote, 鈥淚 thought drag was enough for me, I could take off the makeup anytime and no one would know me out of drag. But at a certain point in my drag career I was realizing that I was doing drag to fill the void in my own life. I was using it to get closer to who I really am.鈥�
Kennedie closed with, 鈥淚 am proud to say I am Kyle, and I am a trans woman.鈥�
In the tweet, Kennedie thanked fellow drag race star Kerri Colby, saying, 鈥淭hank u [Kerri Colby] for making me feel comfortable to talk about my identity. If it wasn’t for you, I probably would have never came out.鈥�
鉂わ笍馃彸锔忊赌嶁毁锔忊潳锔�
— Jasmine(Mouth Almighty)Kennedie (@jasminekennedie)
Kennedie has received praise and support from fellow contestants.聽
Colby posted, 鈥淚鈥檓 still processing the fact that we celebrated welcoming a new sister [Jasmine Kennedie] to the trans family, and normalized a trans woman being a bride on national television!鈥�
Im still processing the fact that we celebrated welcoming a new sister to the trans family, and normalized a trans woman being a bride on national television! 馃懓馃徑鈥嶁檧锔忦煆筹笍鈥嶁毀锔忦煠�
— Kerri Elyse Colby (@kerricolby)
Angeria VanMicheals tweeted support, saying, 鈥淚 love you and I鈥檓 proud of you [Jasmine Kennedie].鈥�
I love you and I鈥檓 proud of you 馃槏
— Angeria 鈥淯galy Bitch鈥� VanMicheals (@Angeriavm)
Bosco tweeted, 鈥淭hree trans girls ah ah ah. FOUR trans girls ah ah ah,鈥� referencing the Count from Sesame Street.聽
Three trans girls ah ah ah
FOUR trans girls ah ah ah— Bosco (@hereisbosco)
Bosco came out as trans last week in a post on Instagram. She said, 鈥淚鈥檓 trans, my pronouns out of drag are she/they. I鈥檓 the happiest I鈥檝e ever been. Love Bosco and her AAA sized titties.鈥� Season 14 of Ru Paul Drag Race also has two other out drag contestants Kornbread (left the season following an injury) and Kerri Colby, and a cisgender heterosexual drag performer Maddy Morphosis.聽
