I-Team: Transgender Student's Graduation Concern

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I-Team: Transgender Student's Graduation Concern
Posted: May 15, 2012 3:05 PM EDT Updated: May 15, 2012 8:00 PM EDT
By Colleen McCarty, Investigative Reporter
By Kyle Zuelke, Photojournalist

http://www.8newsnow.com/story/18426623/transgender-students-graduation-concern

LAS VEGAS -- A transgender student is speaking out following a decision by school administrators to define the teen biologically. The young person, who self-identifies as a boy, doesn't want to graduate as a girl.

The young person came out as transgender to family and friends last year. Although Francis Dalog Junior is still biologically a girl, Francis self-identifies as a boy and presents that way. But administrators at Shadow Ridge High School recognize Francis the she, not the he. School officials initially insisted Francis conform accordingly on graduation day.