In July 2018, Aja announced that she would rather be known as a “queer artist” as opposed to a “drag queen”. Since then, she has primarily focused on her music career to move away from how the “stereotypical drag queen lip-syncs and performs”.
However, on 6 September, the Drag Race icon took to Instagram to share an incredibly personal post about her “gender journey”. “Afterword I came out as non-binary and things started to make more sense to me from a gender standpoint however things became more difficult for me from an artistic standpoint because I started to feel like every time I dressed up I was embodying my trans identity and not an art form,” part of Aja’s message to fans read.