'I'm able to come off stage and take my makeup off and still see a beautiful woman in the mirror. It's powerful.'
on Tuesday, the season 6 fan favorite announced that after doing drag and"presenting as female for the last 10 years," she's now decided to publicly come out as a proud trans woman.
"There are so many other women around me who've inspired me to come forward today, and it's because of their fight and their struggle that I'm able to really do this and say that I'm nervous, but I'm not scared," she said."I'm not going to live my life in fear anymore.
"I'm able to come off stage and take my makeup off and still see a beautiful woman in the mirror. It's powerful," she said, before adding that she's had an"incredibly supportive" network of family and friends who've rallied around her for the past year.
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