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Title: America's Top Model: The Isis Impact
Post by: Natasha on September 16, 2008, 06:23:36 PM
America's Top Model: The Isis Impact

http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2008/09/16/02614.html (http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2008/09/16/02614.html)
Brianna Austin
9/16/2008

Being the first transgender contestant on America's Next Top Model certainly has created a flurry of media buzz around the show, and the 22-year old Isis Tsunami. Her presence on the show has heightened transphobic hysteria rhetoric amongst some groups, but also, albeit unintentionally, provided inspiration to all those people, trans and not, who have been told "no you can't -- you don't fit into our version of acceptable."