Updated 12/27/2022
- Full name: Rachael Valerie Passalt
- Also Known as:
- Species: Human
- Gender: Transgender Female (M2F)
- Eyes: Brown
- Hair: Greyish Brown
- Height: 5’10” (without heels)
- Weight: 175 lbs
- Affiliation(s): Aeverine Zinn Digital Media Group and Ava’s closest friends
- Partner: Traci Davidson (1998-present)
- Relatives: Julia Passalt (father), Yvonne Passalt (1955-2016, mother), Nickolas Passalt (brother), Gloria Passalt (sister), Frank Davidson (brother-in-law), Zoe (daughter)
- Position: Journalist and voice-over actress.
- First Appearance: Ava’s 40th Birthday Special (unofficial), Breaking Boiling Point (Part 14/Conclusion, official)
Rachael is another one of Ava’s closest friends, along with Karly, stepped up to the closest friend role after the death of Ava’s long-time closest friend, Holly Everman in 2017. If her voice sounds a lot like Deanna Willis, do not be surprised of the fact it is Rachael Passalt.
Biography
Rachael Passalt is the oldest child of former news presenters Julia Passalt (b. 1957) and Yvonne Quimby (b. 1955 d. 2016) and has two younger siblings: a brother, Nickolas (b. 1984), and a sister, Gloria (b. 1988).
In mid-2013, Passalt began undergoing a physical and social gender transition from male to female. Her legal transition began on December 1, 2014 (coincidentally ten years after Ava Zinn began her own transition), when Passalt began requesting an Indiana court to grant her request for a gender and name change that was eventually granted in April 2015. She chose the name “Rachael Valerie Passalt” in honor of Rachael O’Connor and Valerie Rockey, both previously were supported by the Vote for the Girls franchise in 2014 (O’Connor was supported by the UK Vote for the Girls for the third series of the British adaptation of The Voice and Rockey was supported by the U.S. Vote for the Girls for the eleventh season of the American adaptation of So You Think You Can Dance).
Rachael lives on the far west side of Fort Wayne with her wife, Traci, and her daughter Zoe.
What Rachael Likes
- Ava
- Caprice (to a degree)
- Ella (to a degree)
- Music (particularly female vocalists)
- Minnesota Vikings football
- University of Minnesota sports
What Rachael Dislikes
- Caprice scratching and hissing at her
- Ella chewing or humping her leg
Trivia
- Rachael was a purple team moderator on Vote for the Girls from 2014 to 2021.
- An interesting Vote for the Girls note that Rachael, along with Donna Doogan, Kendra Ray, and Ava jokingly refer the Purple Team North as the ”Purple Team Big Ten West” as Rachael, Donna, and Kendra previously attended the University of Minnesota, The Ohio State University, and University of Iowa, respectively—all of them Big Ten schools.