Yahoo Lifestyle “RuPaul's Drag Race” icon Trinity K. Bonet clarifies gender journey: 'I'm just me'
"I know that there’s many different versions of trans people so I don’t wanna speak for anybody else," the season 6 queen tells EW, later adding: "I’m simply Trinity and I’m happy."
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Trinity K. BonetAfter speculation swirled that RuPaul's Drag Race season 6 queen and All Stars 6 icon Trinity K. Bonet had come out as trans, the drag performer and TV personality has clarified her gender journey in a new statement to Entertainment Weekly.
"I am happy and proud to announce that I have officially decided to live my life with Trinity. I know that there’s many different versions of trans people, so I don’t wanna speak for anybody else, but as far as myself, I’m just me. I don’t think that I’m a woman," Trinity tells EW in an email. "I know that I’m not a man, I’m Trinity, and whatever that might be or how I choose to present myself in life is simply that: My life, my choices."
The 33-year-old explains that her life experiences up to this point brought her to a personal crossroads. "I had to come to a point of either I’m gonna find my happiness, or I no longer want to exist," she reveals. "And it wasn’t fair to the people who love me for me to think that way, knowing that there was a solution all along. So now I live in my truth and I’m happy with it."
She finishes by urging people to simply let her exist on her own terms.
"I’m not looking for acceptance," Trinity stresses. "I don’t need people to understand my choices, just like you’ve walked past me every day prior to, you can do the same today. I’m simply Trinity, and I’m happy."
Before her statement to EW, Trinity shared a few posts on social media with the trans flag, leading fans to speculate that she'd come out as trans. In a follow-up Live session on Instagram, Trinity thanked her fans for understanding the nuances of her gender journey.
“I just wanted to say thank you all for the reposts and well-wishes and nice thoughts. This is all very fresh and new to me, so, take it easy. Take it easy on me, you know?” she said in the video. “We’re all coming into this together. Baby steps, patience.”
She also added that she'd like to add to her TV résumé in the future by joining the cast of The Boulet Brothers' Dragula, which, counter to the bright, colorful competition of RuPaul's Drag Race, features contestants with gory, horror-themed drag aesthetics.
“Having to live as a girl now but tap into that hardcore, goth, crazy, spooky type of artistry will only elevate me as an artist, period. It’s just going to set me aside from daytime Trinity and the artistry, so I absolutely want to do Dragula," Trinity observed. "I think it would be so much fun. It will make me have to think outside the box.”
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Trinity first established herself on the national stage as a contestant on Drag Race season 6 in 2014, ultimately placing seventh in the overall competition after excelling at the stand-up comedy challenge and cementing her legacy as one of the season's lip-sync assassins.
She returned to the Main Stage as a contestant on All Stars 6 in 2021, upon which she placed fifth. Upon her elimination, she credited the show — and Mama RuPaul — with saving her life at the time.
"When I started doing drag, it was for me wanting to be on stage. Drag Race made it no longer about me, but about the causes it brings to other people in their lives and the impact my story has on them," Trinity previously told EW in her All Stars 6 exit interview. "It became bigger than myself. I thought it would be very selfish of me to take my own life, for probably nothing, for no good reason, when there are other people who I could be helping with my story or my own depressions and HIV, all of those things."
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