Q & A with Isis King
Posted on Feb 07, 2012 by Christine Burroni
http://www.quchronicle.com/2012/02/q-a-with-isis-king/Isis King, the first transgender contestant on the hit show "America's Next Top Model," spoke about her real-life experiences and answered questions from the audience on Saturday night. After her speech, the Chronicle sat down and chatted with her outside of Buckman Theater.
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QUC: How to do you feel about the title of "LGBT," do you feel that it is a stigma?
IK: Honestly, I feel like the "T" doesn't have anything to do with your sexuality at all. If anything, there's segregation, I understand it, but it doesn't belong together because it doesn't have anything to do with who you're attracted to, but for the sake of helping people it's OK for me. My mission isn't to segregate or to help certain people, I want to help everybody and whoever is willing to listen to my story or use my story to help theirs because it doesn't have to be exactly the same, but it's just being different and most people I would say have felt different at one point or another. It's just taking that difference and allowing that to not hold you back and get you to where you want to go.
