Trenton, Ontario: Transgender Prom Queen Shares Her Big Night

[MadelineB]

Your take: A small town transgender prom queen shares her big night
by Community Team
June 26, 2012

http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2012/06/your-take-a-small-town-transgender-prom-queen-shares-her-big-night.html

Trenton High School's 2012 prom queen [Connor Ferguson]...wrote:

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"Sure I've had my ups and downs, my fights with some, my praise from others, but with the support of my family and friends, I have realized anything is possible. Being a transgender prom queen IS possible. Being happy IS possible. And acceptance for all is MORE than possible."

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Sounds like an amazing young woman.

[EmmaMcAllister]

What a heart warming story. And not that far away from where I am!

[Natasha]

Transgender student named prom queen

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2012/07/03/19945481.html
7/3/12
Alexis Allison

TRENTON, Ont. — A transgender student says being named prom queen was the cherry on top of her high school education.

"I was really surprised," Connor Ferguson, an 18-year-old male-to-female transgender student at Trenton High School, said of the win. "It was pretty surreal actually. If I remember correctly my jaw hit the floor and we all started laughing because it was so crazy. I walked up and the crown didn't fit my hair, so I had to hold it."

[~RoadToTrista~]

Happy for her, I guess, but it does make me wonder. If a transgender person at my school won prom queen, I'd assume it was some sort of cruel joke.