'RuPaul's Drag Race' Star Adore Delano Comes Out as Transgender

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Adore Delano is proudly coming out. On Wednesday night (July 26), the 33-year-old RuPaul’s Drag Race season six finalist and American Idol contestant, came out as transgender in an emotional video documenting her journey. Keep reading to find out more… “I wanted to let everybody know that I am transitioning, and I kept it really of hush-hush the first three months because I wanted to go through the beginning stages of the puberty privately,” Adore shared in a video posted on Instagram, in which she also opened up about being sober for the last two years. “I’ve found that it’s been very enlightening and has made me probably the happiest I’ve ever been in my adult life.” Adore went on to recall her journey from “dysphoria to euphoria” and feeling like she born in the wrong body.

She also talked about coming out as bisexual at age 12 before coming out as gay, and then revealing to her mom in high school that she was transgender. “I came out to my mom as transgender,” Adore explained. “I didn’t know the words for that.

I just told my mom ‘I’m not a boy, I’m a girl. I want to live my life as a girl.’ And I’m so blessed to have a mom, especially in the subculture that I grew up in, that was so understanding.

She was so understanding with everything and she said, ‘Let’s figure it out and get you through school and know how to put ‘em up and fight when you need to.’” However, when she auditioned for season seven of American Idol in 2008, she decided to “suppress everything.” “I threw it away, I burned it.