Conchita Wurst is a drag queen, a bearded lady, a persona like Dame Edna Everage. Conchita is played by a gay man, Tom Neuwirth.
conchitawurst.com/bio/
The BBC however have come out with this bizarre crock of shit whereby Conchita Wurst (=sausage) is a transwoman
Because people who identify as TWs aren't very comfortable with the concept of drag queens, men in dresses. So the BBC is busy trying to deny their existence.
www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-44038316
"Born Thomas Neuwirth and raised in the conservative Austrian village of Bad Mitterndorf, Wurst has had to stare down prejudice since she first turned up to kindergarten wearing a skirt."
Thomas Neuwirth was not merely BORN Thomas Neuwirth, he remains Thomas Neuwirth.
Conchita is a character.
Paris Lees would tell you that this is 'gender fluidity' www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/12/conchita-drag-queen-transgender-ambassador-eurovision-winner-trans-gender-diversity
This makes no sense, any more than it makes sense that Anthony Hopkins is 'psychopath-fluid' for playing Hannibal Lecter.
A man who plays a woman is not less of a man because of that.
But the BBC seems keen to erase this.