Concord students choose transgender student as homecoming king

[Shana A]

Concord students choose transgender student as homecoming king

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE
Monitor staff
Sunday, October 6, 2013

http://www.concordmonitor.com/home/8783013-95/concord-students-choose-transgender-student-as-homecoming-king

After Ray Ramsey was crowned Concord High's homecoming king last weekend, after the cheers from the crowd and hugs from friends, he walked over to his dad. Standing there, his dad grabbed him by the shoulders, looked him in the eye and said, "I am so proud of you."

"And I just lost it," said Ray, recalling the moment.

For Ramsey, his family and all of Concord High, this year's homecoming was one for the history books.

That's because Ramsey, a senior, is the first transgender student to be elected by fellow students as Concord High royalty.

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Yay NH!

[Eva Marie]

Today's kids are so cool!! I sure wish that my school had been like that back in the stone age.

[Bardoux]

NH transgender student chosen homecoming king
October 6th

Concord High School students last weekend gave the title to 17-year-old Ray Ramsey. Ramsey was born a female but has been identifying himself as a male for several years, asking people to call him Ray instead of his birth name of Rachael.

Ramsey said he's always found a welcoming environment at home and in school.

http://www.wcax.com/story/23620142/nh-transgender-student-chosen-homecoming-king

[Gina Taylor]

I'm all happy for Ray  but my question is what about the homecoming Queen in California? Didn't she lose her crown after winning because of the decision frpmm the adults, even though she was accepted by the students?


September 20, 2013, 10:19 p.m.
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.

"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."

[Amelia Pond]

Transgender Teen Crowned Homecoming King At New Hampshire High School, Gets High-Fives From Strangers
GRAHAM GREMORE, OCT 8, 2013

A transgender teen in New Hampshire has been voted Homecoming King by a "landslide" victory at his local high school.
17-year-old Ray Ramsey was elected Homecoming King at Concord High School last weekend.

Cheers erupted from the crowd as he walked over to his dad, who took him by the shoulders, looked him in the eye, and said: "I am so proud of you."

Ramsey first told his friends and family that he was interested in girls when he was in eighth grade. During his junior year of high school, he came out as transgender.

In an interview with the Valley News, he said that when he first decided he wanted to be called Ray, he was nervous about telling his parents. Instead of telling them face to face, he wrote his dad a note and left it by the coffee pot one morning...

His dad told him he was okay with Ramsey's decision, then said he would take him to the doctor and support him in any way possible. Ramsey began talking with his doctors about surgical options last fall.

[Gina Taylor]

I think this is a bit sexist. That a transgender teen female becomes a guy and gets voted Homecoming King and there seems to be no problem. But when a transgender male becomes a female who gets voted to be a homecoming queen, she loses her crown becasue th adults don't feel that it's proper because she isn't biologically a female. What gives???

[dalebert]

I think this is a bit sexist. That a transgender teen female becomes a guy and gets voted Homecoming King and there seems to be no problem. But when a transgender male becomes a female who gets voted to be a homecoming queen, she loses her crown becasue th adults don't feel that it's proper because she isn't biologically a female. What gives???

I think it's less about sexism than just different schools and different particular groups of people reacting different ways depending on how progressive that particular group is, or at least the people in charge. There was another school in the news recently where a trans boy tried to run for king and couldn't even get on the ballot. At first they claimed it was because his driver's license had a female gender marker. He actually got it legally changed and they STILL found ways to keep him off, asking him completely inappropriate questions about his genitalia that should qualify as sexual harassment.

This story makes me proud to be a New Hampshirite.

BTW, do you have a link about the revocation of that girl's title? We covered the original story of her being crowned on my show and I would like to cover that as well on the next episode.

[Gina Taylor]

Very good points dalebert. It's a real shame that all people can't be as open-minded as they should be, but that's democracy for you.

I don't have a link for the homecoming queen, but I'm sure if you google it you'll find one.

[DriftingCrow]

Very good points dalebert. It's a real shame that all people can't be as open-minded as they should be, but that's democracy for you.

I don't have a link for the homecoming queen, but I'm sur eif you googl eit you'll find one.

I googled it and I didn't find it. She faced backlash from some people, but as far as I know she didn't loose her title.

[Gina Taylor]

My appologies. I thought she had lost the title. I thought that I had read somewhere that the students were very happy for her, but the adults were againts it because of the fact that she was transgendered, and so they had her striped of the title.

If you type in 'transgendered homecoming queen' or 'Cassidy Lynn Cambell' you should get a lot a lot of sites for her story. Dalebert should be able to get a link for any one of them.