Saturday, April 21, 2007

The Real Story


A high school student in Fresno, Cinthia Covarrubias, decided that he should run for Prom King. The student is a transgender student, born female now identifying as male. So here he is a senior in high school not only having figured out what many transgenders take a lifetime to wrap their heads around, and he want to be Prom King.


So the royalty-to-be has hit all the major news outlets from CNN on down the line. The interesting thing is that most of the major news sources are carrying a story of a girl that wants to be Prom King. The mainstream media is masking the fact that this is a transgender student for the sake of sensationalism, as if it is more shocking to have a girl running for Prom King than a transgender student running for the Royal Court. I am not about to say that there exist gender equality in schools, but there have been countless advances of biological females who identify as females versus biological females that identify as males. In short, the transgender students have a few hundred generations of catching up to do.


If a biological females identifying as a female were to run for Prom King, so what? We've all seen Victor Victoria. Big deal. There have been such females on the wrestling team, the football team, and the hockey team. If you can hold your on, your in. But this story is different. This is about a high school senior who has figured out his gender identity and is ready to pursue his goals in life - all before he's graduated from high school. I immediately throw this awesome student into the Queeroes category. He may be a biological female, but he sure has balls.

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