American Idol.“I’m gonna sing a song that I wrote, it’s called ‘Addicted,’ but it’s not about drugs because I’m 16 and that’s illegal,” Stiles laughed in his audition video.After he sang, with a distinctive gravelly yet smooth voice while playing a ukulele, judge Katy Perry asked if “Ace” was his “real name,” a strange question to ask a trans person. “Sure,” he answered. “I’m trans, so I got to pick my name, so technically it’s my name!
Not legally yet, but it’s OK. We’ve got to wait, “you’ve got to be 18.”Before Ace came out as trans, his mother knew something was going on.