? Ass Teen Named Homecoming Queen

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Transgender Teen Crowned Homecoming Queen at Orange County High School

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-transgender-homecoming-queen-20130920,0,541571.story

Cassidy Lynn Campbell broke down in tears Friday night when she learned that she had been crowned homecoming queen.


The senior at Marina High School in Huntington Beach was born male but told The Times she always felt like a girl. In high school, she began taking hormone blockers and estrogen injections prescribed by an endocrinologist and made the transition to living as a girl.

She decided to run for homecoming queen, in part, to make a statement.

Photos: Being a girl every day

"If I win it would mean that the school recognizes me as the gender I always felt I was," Cassidy, 16, told The Times before the election.

"But with all the attention, I realized it's bigger than me," she said. "I'm doing this for the kids who can't be themselves."


On Friday, at Marina High's homecoming pep rally, the field of 10 homecoming queen candidates was thinned to five -- Cassidy among them.

At halftime, school district spokesman Tom Delapp said, the five finalists were called up and balloons were released from a box to announce the winner -- white for the princesses and bright yellow and blue for the queen.

"She was stunned. She kind of broke down on the podium," Delapp said of Cassidy. "She was shocked. She cried a lot."

Students started chanting her name and then ran down to give her a hug, he said.

"I was so proud to win, not just for me but for everyone out there," Cassidy told reporters afterward. "I think it really shows the progression of the times."

abby.sewell@latimes.com


Please tell me that muthafuckas who voted for this ? were playin' because if they weren't this school and community hella lost. Shakin' my muthafuckin' head. Let me ask y'all something in all seriousness. If schools institute dress codes saying that boys can't wear their pants with their underwear showing, that girls can't wear tops with their mid drifts and cleavage exposed, or certain colors or clothing bearing the names of a particular sports team are banned because of an "gang affiliation, then why is it appropriate for boys to dress girls and vice versa? GLAAD and the ? community has the public schools in America shook as ? . What does it say about the quality and character of young girls at this particular high school when you have to vote for a ? to be homecoming queen?
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