'RuPaul's Drag Race' Alum Amethyst Comes Out as Trans

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Amethyst is coming out. The 29-year-old Connecticut native and star of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 15 came out as transgender in a post on social media.

In a note posted over the weekend, she thanking fans for supporting her upcoming album, Amy, and explaining its title’s significance to her identity. Keep reading to find out more… “I’ve been struggling severely with my gender dysphoria more than ever in recent months,” she wrote. “It’s something that I’ve always concealed in the back of my mind, and through the years has slowly crept its way to the front.” “Last year was when things really started to hit me hard, and this mental warfare has really just escalated since then,” she continued. “I wanted to let you know that I’m trans, and began HRT [hormone replacement therapy] a little over a month ago,” she wrote. “Even in this short amount of time, the comparison to how I felt just a few months ago is night and day.

It’s a different sense of happiness that is slowly but surely bringing back my self-assurance, and every day it gets easier to look in the mirror.” She added that she’s going by the name Amy when out of drag, which she credits to her season 15 castmate Malaysia Babydoll Foxx, who gave it to her during production of their season. “I feel a lot of pressure to pick the perfect name, but in the meantime, this is a comfy placeholder for me,” she wrote.

Because her insurance won’t fully cover some of her desired procedures, she has started a fundraiser for donations to help her with facial feminization surgery, with an end goal of $10,000.