Transgender teen from Davie, Florida crowned prom queen

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This is from an article in todays's, May 31, 2011, Ft. Lauderdale (Florida) Sun Sentinel, which is my local paper.
See the article at the link below.

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Transgender teen from Davie crowned prom queen.

This is the link to the short article.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/davie/fl-prom-queen...

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Still haven't got it right...

I noticed they only referred to 'Andrew' and 'him' or 'he'.

A better article

The Miami Herald has a better article, though her own parents misgender her. Apparently she still goes by â€œAndrewâ€ and plans to change her name later.

http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2011/05/trans...

Comments on that article

The comments make her out to be a cliquey, mean, vindictive gossip-monger... not so different from a large number of genetic teenage girls then :)

I've been driven mad trying to prove my sanity

Strangely enough...

...all the negative comments are anonymous... <sarcasm> I wonder why... </sarcasm> :)

However, if Andrew was the backstabbing, self-centered bullying gossip-monger the negative comments portray her as, I doubt she would have garnered enough votes to win - let alone the "joke" votes mentioned by one antagonist.

So in reality, the antagonists are probably motivated by a combination of school politics and sour grapes because they (or their best friends) didn't win.

Almost full kudos to the parents (particularly dad) for supporting their/his daughter (and bottom marks for the anonymous colleague mentioned) - but a few marks lost for the apparent pronoun abuse... unless Andrew has decided she wants people to keep using her male name and male pronouns until her name change is official. As for the use of "Andii", I'd assume the nickname is reserved for close friends

Bike Resources

There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who don't...

As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!

I dunno...

Unless the parents have known/supported Andie (the name another paper said she preferred) for many years, they have a LOT of years of practice thinking they had a son to get over. (I use the same rule with my wife. She gets the pronoun "SHE" more often than not... It's when she's stressed/tired that the old one comes out... And, she's only known since Oct '08... And, we've been married for 30 years. A LOT of time to UNlearn.)

That her parents support her is far more important than lapses in pronouns (now). That the school supported her enough to vote her in. WOW.

The other article I mentioned also referenced a gay teen being elected queen - in Blacksburg, VA. Talk about a town with a rep of conservatism. (Jerry Fallwell's church is there!)

Anne

ALL teenagers are like that

No matter who had been the eventual winner, there would have been bitchiness and catcalling, so it just shows she fits perfectly into the world of teenage girls. The lack of any comments negative about her transgender status, instead focussing on her attitudes, is positive, even amongst all the negativity.

I agree entirely about the parents, I wish mine had been aware enough for me to be able to tell them, but they were distant, bigotted and thoroughly negative on the occasions they found my clothes stashes.

I've been driven mad trying to prove my sanity