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Kendall Gender

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Kendall Gender
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Kendall Gender is the stage name of Kenneth Wyse (born 16 July 1990), a Canadian drag performer most known for competing on season 2 of Canada's Drag Race in 2021. She returned to compete in Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs. the World in 2022.[3]

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Early life

Wyse was raised in Richmond, British Columbia.[4] He graduated from Henry James Cambie Secondary School in 2008 before attending Kwantlen Polytechnic University.[citation needed]

Career

Wyse chose the drag name Kendall Gender as a reference to reality television personality Kendall Jenner,[5] although for the Snatch Game episode of Canada's Drag Race, she chose to impersonate Kris Jenner.[6]

Her first time in drag was in 2014, where she performed Beyonce's "Ring the Alarm".[7]

Kendall Gender won the Vancouver's Next Drag Superstar competition in 2017.[4] In 2020, she became the first drag performer to perform the halftime show at the Rugby Sevens tournament.[8] She also recreated four albums by Black artists: Beyoncé's Dangerously in Love, Mariah Carey's Merry Christmas, Rihanna's Unapologetic, and Whitney Houston's Whitney.[4] She was a finalist on season 2 of Canada's Drag Race.[9] She won the show's roast challenge.[10]

Following her run on Canada's Drag Race, she was named to Vancouver Magazine's annual Power 50 list of influential Vancouverites.[8] She has appeared in a campaign for Canadian swim and loungewear brand Londre and is the face of Annabelle cosmetics' Proud Out Loud collection.[7]

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Personal life

Wyse is biracial (half black and half white).[4] He is based in Vancouver,[11] where he has regularly performed as part of the "Brat Pack" drag troupe alongside his Canada's Drag Race castmates Synthia Kiss and Gia Metric.[12]

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