Anne Hathaway, eat your heart out!

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Jinkx Monsoon (as Little Edie) recently sang "I Dreamead a Dream" live at the Drag Race "Battle of the Seasons." It's a great watch. I love seeing a queen who can sing live.

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Ah, "transgender woman"! That's the term I was looking for but instead I just used "the transitioned". Sorry for my English, I'm not a native speaker as I live outside US. FYI, I live in Indonesia and I have to download episodes of RPDR to watch every Tuesday night in my timezone. I'm not really familiar with the drag communities in US, but I think they are not that much different from the drag communities we have here. And I have to say perhaps the drag communities here are even more strict, or should I put it "conservative".

Transgender is still a rare case here, but if there is, it still raises some questions (for example, people even still argue whether they should be classified as "woman"). Not to mention the transgender, the drag communities sometimes still have issues with gay communities. For them, both are different, like oil and water, no matter how much we want to connect with them. For example, if there is a drag lipsync competition, gays are not allowed to participate, no matter how much we want to participate, as for them we only dress occasionally. But for gays, we don't see that much difference with them, we only want to have some fun and make connection with them. But they shut us out.

Now how do they treat the transgender? They are treated with respect. But if they want to participate in drag-specific events, it's still creates a fuss from the drag communities themselves (as they are not considered as drag queen anymore). But ideally, I think, there should be no restriction to limit them from participating because they once belonged to the same community (and to what community they should belong after transitioning if even the biological women question their status?) As you can see in that show at Gramercy Theatre where Jinkx and Carmen performed, Carmen was not excluded because she is already a transgender woman even though it was actually a drag show. Yet, perhaps that's how it goes, there is this unwritten rule for this case, same as what they have for RPDR. Perhaps that's how the convention goes.