Courtesy of The Detroit Press & The Associated Press
A West Michigan high school that attracted criticism last year for disqualifying votes for a transgender student as homecoming king won't have a homecoming king and queen this year.
The Muskegon Chronicle reports the senior class at Mona Shores High School in Norton Shores instead will vote on two finalists among eight chosen as class representatives.
Last year, the school tossed out ballots on which students had voted Oak Reed as homecoming king. Reed identified himself as a young man. But school officials said rules informed students they were to vote for a boy as king, and Reed was enrolled as a female.
To be more gender neutral, the Muskegon-area school agreed to do away with prom king and queen last spring and homecoming king and queen this year.
A West Michigan high school that attracted criticism last year for disqualifying votes for a transgender student as homecoming king won't have a homecoming king and queen this year.
The Muskegon Chronicle reports the senior class at Mona Shores High School in Norton Shores instead will vote on two finalists among eight chosen as class representatives.
Last year, the school tossed out ballots on which students had voted Oak Reed as homecoming king. Reed identified himself as a young man. But school officials said rules informed students they were to vote for a boy as king, and Reed was enrolled as a female.
To be more gender neutral, the Muskegon-area school agreed to do away with prom king and queen last spring and homecoming king and queen this year.
*Doing away with the titles of King & Queen does not make you a gay-friendly school in fact it makes you a coward. If a girl doesn't feel like she's a girl then you should be respectful and let her identify as the gender she chooses. Nowhere in any school mission or objectives does it state that the school is in charge of assigning genders. Why? Because that's not your job, its a personal matter and they shouldn't in anyway try to force it.
Transgenders seem to be the hardest of the LGBT community to be accepted even within the our own community but if no one else you guys have a friend in me! :)
Transgenders seem to be the hardest of the LGBT community to be accepted even within the our own community but if no one else you guys have a friend in me! :)
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