Kendall Gender

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]}

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]

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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