Transgender star Cassandra Cass shines brightly

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Transgender star Cassandra Cass shines brightly

Carolyne Zinko, Chronicle Staff Writer
San Francisco Chronicle October 1, 2010 04:00 AM

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Cassandra Cass is a star on San Francisco's popular lip-sync show, "Sunday's a Drag," at Harry Denton's Starlight Room. She has reached a limit of 5,000 friends on her Facebook page and has 1,000 on the waiting list. Now her fame is reaching even loftier heights, on Showtime TV's new midnight series, "Wild Things."

Cass is one of the more attractive female performers around, but it wasn't always so. She was born a boy 32 years ago in Des Moines, Iowa, the son of a housewife and a football coach. Back then, Cassandra was Casey and had three brothers.