A controversial OnlyFans star revealed she is transgender after boasting that she had slept with 250 ‘barely legal’ high school leavers for her Australian channel.
Kay Manuel made headlines this week when she bragged about sleeping with 75 high school leavers in 48 hours, and set up a billboard promoting her OnlyFans to students finishing their Year 12 exams in Surfers Paradise.
Amid scrutiny over her exploits, the 22-year-old ‘Australian Bonnie Blue’ revealed she had transitioned and claimed all those involved with her had been informed.
Manuel previously said she had filmed X-rated content with the graduates this year, but appeared to back down as she said ‘I haven’t had to disclose [my transition] this year because I haven’t filmed with anyone’.
The content creator previously denied transitioning and admitted that she had lied to Daily Mail Australia when she dismissed speculation. She told local media on Sunday rumours were ‘not true’ and that she was ‘born female’ before telling the Courier Mail she had transitioned to live her ‘best life’.
She also admitted she had lied about how many boys she had bedded during the first week of the ‘Schoolies’ celebrations last year, claiming she had been put on the spot by reporters on the Gold Coast.
Manuel’s controversial decision to advertise her sexual content to teenagers comes after British OnlyFans star Bonnie Blue and Australian Annie Knight were reportedly ‘deported’ from Fiji over filming pornographic content during ‘Schoolies Week’.
Manuel told Daily Mail Australia just days ago that she was born a woman, adding that if she was transgender she would not conceal it.
She went on to deny speculation that she was a person identified in an old Facebook account belonging to a young man.
‘We look very, very similar, but no, that’s not me… and no, I am not trans. I think it is because I have a deep voice,’ she told Daily Mail Australia this week.
But while condemning the ‘deplorable’ rhetoric online, she admitted to the Courier Mail that she had transitioned to become her authentic self.
‘It was never intended to be just a publicity stunt… I didn’t know what else to do, besides lie,’ she claimed.
‘I think that some people have always speculated. I don’t refer to myself as transgender. I never have. I think that term – you’re just calling yourself a man so at that point, you might just as well call yourself just that,’ she said.
‘I can understand where there can be some questions, but like, it’s really no one’s (the public’s) business.’
Manuel also insisted that she had planned to inform school leavers of her gender transition before sleeping with them this year.
‘The intention was to film, the consent forms were ready, everything was okayed by a lawyer and the Schoolies were on board.’
Before the event started, she claimed to have her sights on breaking a new record of bedding over 1,000 boys in two weeks.
She said she had slept with 55 people within the first 24 hours and 75 by day two, but her public promotion led to her being kicked out of her rented accommodation.
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Critics had bashed her attempts to promote to young people after she set up a billboard in Surfers Paradise with her website and socials.
She reportedly planned ‘meet and greets’ at local venues.
Manuel insisted it was all above board and those attending were screened before anything happened.
‘I’ve been told I’m a predator, a pedophile. (But) look, to upload to these websites you need to have ID and these platforms have the relevant systems to check these IDs aren’t fake or invalid,’ she said, as reported by the Gold Coast Bulletin.
‘I don’t meet up with anyone unless government ID proving they are 18 has been sent.
‘I don’t meet up with anyone who may have turned 18 but was 17 at the time of messaging me – that’s grooming.’
Manuel also said she had been scheduled to film alongside Bonnie Blue and Annie Knight before Blue’s Australian visa was cancelled over allegations she had planned to flout her terms of stay by working.
The move to advertise to high school leavers prompted sharp backlash and approach from reporters, who Manuel accused of ‘hounding’ her in the street.
She said the confrontation made her reconsider plans to sleep with as many high school graduates as possible with the lewd acts filmed and uploaded to her subscriber-based platforms.
‘I’m not saying no and I’m not saying yes,’ she said, noting that everybody who met with her last year ‘had a good experience’.
Last year, Manuel claimed to have slept with 250 high school leavers during Schoolies celebrations.
She said only two people asked to have their content pulled last year.
Manuel told Daily Mail Australia this week that there was ‘no truth’ that she was nominated for ‘best transgender porn star’ for two years running at an adult industry awards show last year.
She claimed it was a mistake on the part of the show organisers.
‘I talked to the awards about it… and they just said that it was false because I didn’t win anything,’ she said.
Locals from Manuel’s hometown of Coffs Harbour on the NSW North Coast have since come forward and said she was formerly known as Kayden Tai Manuel.
‘It’s incredibly common knowledge,’ an acquaintance said.
‘Coffs is not always an open-minded town and gossip about her transitioning to female did the rounds on group chats around the coast.’
A former school friend, who until recently was also posting sexual content to OnlyFans, claimed she had been in contact with Manuel over the years, including when she transitioned to female and began identifying as Kay Manuel full-time.
‘I have messages from her personally confirming that she is trans,’ she said.
‘When I messaged her in November [last year] asking if she had had [genital reassignment] surgery she responded, ‘I wish’.’
It is understood Manuel has since had that surgery.
A former co-worker who worked alongside Kay at a NSW Mid North Coast McDonald’s restaurant recalls her showing interest in transitioning in 2018.
‘She was openly gay for most of high school, but only showed outward interest in becoming trans when she was 17,’ the ex-coworker said.
‘Even before her operation, she would dress up as a female.’
This is the second year Manuel has joined Schoolies celebrations to recruit teens to film sex on camera, with the videos shared on subscriber-based platforms.
‘If I was trans, of course I would be communicating that with the men I film with,’ she previously told this publication.
Participants must provide identification showing they are over 18, undertake a sobriety test, and sign multiple consent forms for the different platforms Manuel uses to distribute her adult content.
They can also conceal their identity and have the option to withdraw permission once filming has concluded.
