Courtney Act says RuPaul blocked her on social media after her season of RuPaul’s Drag Race aired, following a public dispute over the show’s use of a transphobic term that rhymes with female. The Australian drag performer said the block came after she wrote a Facebook post defending the trans community, then later found herself unblocked only after Todrick Hall called RuPaul while the two were filming videos together.
Act said the exchange began when she raised concern about the slur and RuPaul answered, “If you’re worried about me calling you a word, then you’ve got bigger problems.” She said the response led her to post publicly in support of trans people, adding that she thought the message was thoughtful and that Ru would appreciate it as an intelligent reply rather than “internet slander.” Instead, she said, the post earned her a block.
The account lands more than 10 years after Season 6, when Act said the dispute first unfolded, and it arrives as RuPaul’s Drag Race continues to stream on Paramount+. The sequence matters because it shows the disagreement was not just about one word, but about how the show handled trans identity and criticism from one of its own alumni.
Act said the tension did not end there. She said Todrick Hall phoned RuPaul for nearly an hour while they were filming videos together and later told her, “This must be a mistake. Let me message Ru.” Act said Hall then relayed that RuPaul’s response was, “I just don’t like you.” By her telling, that comment came after she had already been blocked and then unblocked, a detail that underscores how personal the fallout became.
What emerges from Act’s account is a split that outlasted the original argument. She said she challenged the show’s language, defended the trans community and took a social-media hit for it. RuPaul later unblocked her, but the story she told leaves little doubt that the disagreement was real, public and still shaping how she talks about the franchise years later.
