Trans prom king speaks out as critics whine about "woke agenda"https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/05/students-queer-mom-love-on-trans-prom-king-as-critics-whine-about-woke-agenda/ 🔗Daniel Villarreal (27 May 2026)
Community members surrounding the White County High School of Cleveland, Georgia are standing up to those upset over the fact that students elected transgender student Willow Polangco-Kenney as their prom king last month. Polangco-Kenney herself has spoken out, noting that people's hatred has overlooked the prom queen's beauty and the student body's love and support.
After images of the royal couple began circulating online, White County School Superintendent Jonathan Stribling issued an April 20 letter addressed to the community in which he encouraged "open and respectful dialogue" but wrote, "Let me be clear: the actions and personal choices of an individual student at a school event do not represent a shift in the mission, values, or educational priorities of White County Schools."
In an April 19 Instagram video, Polangco-Kenney said that people shouldn't be mad at the school because its administrators have never supported her gender identity.
"At White County High School, I'm not supported. I am not safe," she said. "I had to get special provisions to even let me use a restroom because there's not an accessible restroom downstairs at the Performing Arts Center, which accessible restrooms are supposed to be a thing everywhere.
"But you know who does support me? [It's] the student body," she continued. "The other students are wonderful people, and a lot of them happen to love love and happen to love when people are able to express themselves and happen to believe in the American idea of freedom of speech and freedom of expression, and none of that comes from the school. The school does not support that."
