Saturday, March 01, 2008
Melania Marquez has the best mom ever (or how to navigate high-school as a Latina trans teen)
http://blabbeando.blogspot.com/2008/03/melania-marquez-has-best-mom-ever-or.html (http://blabbeando.blogspot.com/2008/03/melania-marquez-has-best-mom-ever-or.html)
Rocky Mountain News from Colorado has a profile of 15 year old Melania Marquez and the stuff that she has to face as a high-school student: The extra-curricular activities (she is on the girl's track team), the high-school gossip, the other girls ecouraging her to ask boys out and the awkwardness of rejection when a potential date wants to be a friend rather than a boyfriend.
Pretty regular stuff for a high-school teen. Pretty amazing that Melania happens to be a transgender teen.