Oct 19 2010 6:52 AM EDT 298
Dallas Transgender Teen Hopes To Be A 'Mentor' After Homecoming Queen Bid
'I encourage people to come up and ask me things,' Andy Moreno tells MTV News.
By Damian Vaca
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1650249/20101018/story.jhtml (http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1650249/20101018/story.jhtml)
DALLAS — Last week, the students at North Dallas High School ended their day in a rally of support for one of their own: Andy Moreno, a transgender teen who was denied the opportunity to run for homecoming queen.
"I felt like I am being discriminated [against] because I tried running for homecoming queen, and I wasn't able to because the principal said it wasn't based on tradition," Moreno told MTV News. One of the administrators had a problem with Andy running, so she reached out to Principal Dinnah Escanilla, who "said that I was a gay male — which, to me, was a little ignorant, because she doesn't seem that educated in the transgender topic."