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In 2017, Peppermint entered RuPaul’s Drag Race Werk Room already a drag legend. When she left as season nine’s runner-up, she did so as a Drag Race legend. And yet, despite pleas from fans, Peppermint hasn’t been back to the franchise since. Instead, this year, she reentered the reality-competition circuit through The Traitors, Peacock’s social-strategy competition featuring reality-TV stars from a variety of shows and networks. The sole contestant from Drag Race, she was also the only trans person in the house, and a Black trans woman at that.
Drag Race fans are particularly protective of Pep — the kind of woman who will cry when asked to hit her friend in a video game — so when…
