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“I was afraid I wouldn’t survive it mentally, physically or financially.”Ībout six years after de-transitioning, O’Hara found herself in a much better place she’d established a name for herself on three different seasons of RuPaul’s Drag Race and was co-starring in HBO’s acclaimed reality series We’re Here with Bob the Drag Queen and Shangela, meeting people from across America and turning them into drag queens for one-night-only performances.Īfter watching the show’s crew deftly and sensitively handle the stories of three trans people in Grand Junction, Colo., O’Hara finally felt empowered again.
“I was very abused, and I went through a lot of trauma,” she says, matter-of-factly. The concept of de-transitioning is a topic that’s fueled much of the right-wing, anti-trans agenda of late if a young person like O’Hara can regret transitioning, then why shouldn’t they be prevented from making such a decision?īut the drag star explains their process of de-transitioning was not born out of regret - it was a retreat from the painful reality that anti-trans legislation helps foster. At the age of 18, she came out as a transgender woman and began to live her life openly - but after six years, she de-transitioned, deciding to go back to living as the gender she was assigned at birth. While she was exploring the DIY, glitter-caked world of Southern drag, O’Hara was also exploring her own gender. “I swore I was wearing a sexy thigh-high boot.” “I found a pair of slingbacks that did not meet the end of my heel - so I bought some blue duct tape that matched my dress, and I wrapped duct tape from the toe of that shoe all the way up to my kneecaps,” they recall, cackling. Immersing herself in the Southern drag culture, O’Hara recalls their early days in drag - paying a queen to paint her face for $25, buying a $10 synthetic wig to throw on, and even finding a creative solution for needing heels in a size 16. James, who would later agree to become O’Hara’s drag mother. I thought, ‘This is what I’ve been waiting to see.’ ” “As soon as she hit the spotlight, she was just big and large and in charge and gorgeous,” she recalls. Taking a seat, O’Hara recalls seeing “this big woman with huge boobs and a giant high ponytail” walk out onto the stage and begin performing a Britney Spears song.
Her love of the art form began at age 16, when a friend snuck her into a gay bar called New Directions, the closest one to her small hometown of Bristol, Tenn. O’Hara speaks from experience - she’s been performing in drag for nearly two decades.
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