"Next Top Model" brings transgender in from cold

[Natasha]

"Next Top Model" brings transgender in from cold

http://www.reuters.com/article/televisionNews/idUSN0243933820080903
9/3/2008

Isis Tsunami, 22, is not the first transgender person to appear on a popular American TV show. But the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) called her inclusion an "unprecedented opportunity for a community that is under-represented on television."

Isis, a former receptionist from Maryland who was born male, joins a small but increasingly visible group of transgender women on U.S. TV, as well as a growing number of actors in transgender roles on film and TV screens.