"Drag Race" Contestant Comes Out As Trans

[Carolyn Marie]

http://www.newnownext.com/monica-beverly-hillz-transgender-drag-queen-rupauls-drag-race/02/2013/

Carolyn Marie

[Guest Always Good]

Wait, doesn't that make her a woman dressing up like a woman? That doesn't really count as dressing in drag, does it?

[Drea]

I guess what baffles me is that would she and all the contestants already been transgender. It is an umbrella term after all.

Or is it because ttransgender is now the same as transsexual? That article isn't particularly clear as to what is mean't by "transgender".

[Guest KimberlyF]

I think this is the transitioning transgender and not the umbrella transgender. I don't have a scorecard though?

[Carolyn Marie]

I think this is the transitioning transgender and not the umbrella transgender. I don't have a scorecard though?

LOL! Yeah, its easy to get lost in the terminology. So the producers only screen for "charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent." So any Tom, Fred or Harry willing to put on female clothes gets a shot? Whatever.

Carolyn Marie