Vine Star Clocks Carmen Carrera In “Tranny” Debate: “RuPaul Is The Reason You Even Have A Platform!”

Drag queen-turned-transgender fashion model Carmen Carrera is firing back at RuPaul this week, as what has been coined “the tranny discussion” enters shady territory.

Carrera has been credited with contributing significantly to the escalation of the controversy surrounding the words “tranny” and “shemale” as used in gay drag culture. Back in April, an Out blogger attacked RuPaul and RuPaul’s Drag Race for being “transphobic” after an episode featuring the word “she-male” was aired, but it was Carrera who first suggested the iconic Drag Race phrase “you’ve got she-mail” was transphobic and not fit to air.

Logo responded to criticism by immediately yanking the word from future and existing episodes of RuPaul’s Drag Race, going so far as to remove previous episodes from their online archive altogether. RuPaul responded for the first time last week in a podcast interview with Marc Marron: “If your idea of happiness has to do with someone else changing what they say, what they do,” he said, “you are in for a fucking hard-ass road.”

“Bitch, you need to get stronger. If you’re upset by something I said you have bigger problems than you think,” he finished. Logo responded by blasting the comments as “anti-trans rhetoric,” and after, San Francisco drag queen Heklina notified fans on Facebook that “the tranny discussion” forced her into changing the name of the historic roving drag show Trannyshack.

Yesterday, Carrera fired back at RuPaul’s most recent comments, posting a blasphemous photo depicting RuPaul as a sheep on Facebook. Though RuPaul does not identify as a sheep, Carrera blatantly misclassified him by Photoshopping his face onto the body of a sheep running off a cliff. “Follow the leader…” the caption reads.

Carrera’s behavior has encouraged other trans activists, including performance artist Justin Vivian Bond to publicly come out in support of RuPaul. In an open letter condemning Carrera’s “harassment,” Bond said “People think you are a tranny it’s because you are perceived as one. OWN IT!”

Those sentiments are being echoed in a YouTube video posted by Vine celebrity and adult performer TS Madison, a transgender woman who has documented her transition on social media. The 10-minute video below, which had scored a whopping 14,000 views at time of posting, is a frank and abrasive message to the trans antagonists who called TS Madison “not authentic” for defending use of the word “tranny.”

“Don’t try to attack Miss RuPaul in reference to the shemale situation,” she says. “Be happy for her! Be glad that this bitch [expletives] is the reason your ass stood there on a platform and revealed to us who you were, and were able to tell your fucking story!”