WATCH: N. Dallas High School doesn't want you to know if trans student won homecoming vote
Posted on 11 Oct 2010 at 11:22pm
http://www.dallasvoice.com/watch-andy-moreno-answers-fox-4s-heather-hays-1047937.htmlNorth Dallas High School isn't releasing the results of the vote for homecoming queen, saying the information is confidential. So we have no way of knowing for sure whether transgender student Andy Moreno had enough votes to be a finalist for homecoming queen. But Andy's running mate on the ballot, her MTF transgender friend, is one of three finalists for homecoming king. So it's likely that Andy was also one of the top three vote-getters, but Principal Dinnah Escanilla is stubbornly sticking to her terrible decision not to allow Andy to run for queen. What's worse, the Dallas Independent School District continues to allow Escanilla's blatant discrimination, making us wonder what would happen if the principal required the homecoming queen to be of a certain race.
Fox 4 has been following this story closely, and it's been the No. 1 most read article on their site both last week and today. But why does Fox 4 reporter Sophia Reza suddenly begin referring to Andy as a "he" and "him" halfway through her report, almost as though she's mimicking students who do the same thing? And why does anchor Heather Hays seem to have such a hard time understanding the simple fact that Andy identifies as a girl, not a boy?
