Transgender Red Lion student wants to be prom king, not queen
A petition to put Issak Oliver Wolfe on the prom king ballot has garnered a lot of online support.
By ED MAHON and ANGIE MASON
Daily Record/Sunday News
Updated: 04/24/2013 10:27:29 AM EDT
http://www.ydr.com/local/ci_23091539/red-lion-transgender-student-wants-be-prom-kingYork, PA -
The story of a transgender student at Red Lion Area Senior High School has drawn attention and support online after his name was put on the ballot for prom queen instead of prom king.
Issak Oliver Wolfe, whose legal name is Sierra Stambaugh, said he has known he was different his entire life.
"It was just a matter of going through a process of figuring out what it was," he said Monday outside his North Hopewell Township home.
The summer after ninth-grade, he thought he figured out what it was.
[...]
Wolfe's story became the subject of a Facebook page, and it was shared on the Facebook page of Have a Gay Day, which describes itself as supporting equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and straight people. As of Tuesday, that post had been liked by more than 3,000 people and shared nearly 1,300 times.
A petition was also posted to
Change.org supporting Wolfe for prom king and for his name to be read at graduation. It had 2,165 supporters as of Tuesday afternoon.
The online posts identify a high school official as responsible for making the decision to put Issak on the ballot for queen and not king.
