“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Axes Transphobic Slurs
By Glennisha Morgan
Logo TV’s RuPaul’s Drag Race was recently scrutinized for airing a transphobic challenge called “Female or She-Male,” where contestants were shown celebrity photos and asked to identify the stars as either a “biological woman” or a “psychological woman.” The backlash from the transgender community has caused the MTV-owned network to pull the episode of Drag Race featuring the “female or she-male” sketch and also no longer use the phrase “You’ve got she-mail.” GLAAD met with the producers from MTV and Logo immediately after the episode aired.
On Monday, Logo announced the news in a statement to the Huffington Post:
We wanted to thank the community for sharing their concerns around a recent segment and the use of the term ‘she-mail’ on Drag Race. Logo has pulled the episode from all of our platforms and that challenge will not appear again. Furthermore, we are removing the ‘You’ve got she-mail’ intro from new episodes of the series.We did not intend to cause any offense, but in retrospect we realize that it was insensitive. We sincerely apologize.
Glennisha Morgan serves as ELIXHER’s Entertainment Editor. She is the founder of The Fembassy (a blog that is solely dedicated to women MCs), a multimedia journalist, photographer and filmmaker. During her career she has interviewed people like Russell Simmons, La La Anthony, MC Lyte, Brendon Ayanbadejo, Laverne Cox, and Marsha Ambrosius. In 2010, Glennisha was featured in BET’s first original music documentary, ‘My Mic Sounds Nice.’
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