Mich. High School Students Fight for a Trans Prom King
by Kilian Melloy
Wednesday Sep 29, 2010
http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=110909 (http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=110909)
A number of seniors at a Muskegon, Michigan high school voted for Oak Marshall as their homecoming king--but administrators refuse to allow him to compete for the title. The reason: Oak is officially registered at the school as a female student.
Like all transgendered individuals, Oak--the name is short for "Oakleigh"-- doesn't see himself as belonging to the gender of his body. His mind and personality--his sense of himself--are male, and he's generally accepted as such by his teachers, who call him by masculine pronouns, reported Grand Rapids news channel WOOD-8 on Sept. 26.