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.

Early life

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

Career

Wyse chose the drag name Kendall Gender as a reference to reality television personality

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, although for the Snatch Game episode of ''Canada's Drag Race'', she chose to impersonate Kris Jenner. Her first time in drag was in 2014, where she performed Beyonce's " Ring the Alarm". Kendall Gender won the Vancouver's Next Drag Superstar competition in 2017. In 2020, she became the first drag performer to perform the halftime show at the Rugby Sevens tournament."Vanmag's 2022 Power 50 List"
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challenge. Following her run on ''Canada's Drag Race'', she was named to ''

's'' annual Power 50 list of influential Vancouverites. She has appeared in a campaign for Canadian swim and loungewear brand Londre and is the face of Annabelle cosmetics' Proud Out Loud collection.

Personal life

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

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Filmography

Web series

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References

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* {{Canada's Drag Race 1990 births Living people 21st-century Canadian LGBT people Black Canadian LGBT people Canada's Drag Race contestants Canadian drag queens People from Richmond, British Columbia Drag performers from Vancouver Kwantlen Polytechnic University alumni