In July 2018, Aja announced that she would rather be known as a “queer artist” as opposed to a “drag queen”. This led to her primarily focusing on her music career and less on the way a “stereotypical drag queen lip-syncs and performs”.
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 her message to fans read.