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Title: Utah High School Crowns Transgender Prom Queen
Post by: suzifrommd on May 03, 2015, 08:53:55 AM
Utah High School Crowns Transgender Prom Queen

By Katie Kindelan
April 30, 2015 5:11 PM
Good Morning America

https://gma.yahoo.com/utah-high-school-crowns-transgender-prom-queen-211152318--abc-news-topstories.html

Maka Brown, 18 and a senior at Salt Lake School for Performing Arts, accepted her crown on Saturday night after being voted upon by her peers, many of whom first knew her as a boy.
Title: Re: Utah High School Crowns Transgender Prom Queen
Post by: suzifrommd on May 03, 2015, 08:57:23 AM
What a difference two decades make. Salt Lake City was the public school system that cancelled all it's afterschool activities in all its schools in 1996 to avoid allowing a Gay-Straight Alliance to be formed.
Title: Re: Utah High School Crowns Transgender Prom Queen
Post by: CalmRage on May 03, 2015, 09:14:10 AM
happy for her. BTW, she was briefly a member here.