{"id":15236,"date":"2013-09-23T17:18:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T17:18:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-09-23T17:18:16","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T17:18:16","slug":"transgender-student-elected-homecoming-queen-in-huntington-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2013\/09\/23\/transgender-student-elected-homecoming-queen-in-huntington-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Transgender Student Elected Homecoming Queen in Huntington Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" align=right src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JH8detcgOFI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><i>Principal says &#8220;We&#8217;re proud of the message from home of the Vikings has been one of equity, acceptance, tolerance and respect.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medievalarchives.com\/category\/the-vikings-podcast\/\">historic Vikings<\/a> weren&#8217;t very tolerant or understanding, but that&#8217;s not the case for the <a href=\"http:\/\/marinavikings.org\/\">Vikings of Marina High School in Huntington Beach<\/a>. Over the weekend, Marina High chose Cassidy Lynn Campbell as its homecoming queen. What makes that notable is that Cassidy is a transgender student living in a pretty conservative area of Orange County. While she knows there is still a lot of hate left in the community, Cassidy is a proud leader:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cassidy Campbell says she has dealt with some negativity since she decided to run for homecoming queen. She says it&#8217;s all fueled by ignorance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They think that I&#8217;m just a boy doing this for fun, and I&#8217;m just a boy dressing up as a girl and trying to win a crown when that is completely the opposite of what it is,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve always seen myself as a girl.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She hopes her courage will inspire other transgender teens to live life without hiding who they are.(<a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/story?section=news\/local\/orange_county&#038;id=9256575\">KABC &#8211; 7 LA<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With the <a href=\"http:\/\/transgenderlawcenter.org\/archives\/3544\">passage and Jerry Brown&#8217;s signature of Asm. Ammiano&#8217;s School Success and Opportunity Act<\/a>, transgender students will have the freedom to pursue every opportunity that other students have. Equality takes a fight, but with positive signs like this, it is clear that justice is winning.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations Cassidy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" align=right src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JH8detcgOFI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><i>Principal says &#8220;We&#8217;re proud of the message from home of the Vikings has been one of equity, acceptance, tolerance and respect.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medievalarchives.com\/category\/the-vikings-podcast\/\">historic Vikings<\/a> weren&#8217;t very tolerant or understanding, but that&#8217;s not the case for the <a href=\"http:\/\/marinavikings.org\/\">Vikings of Marina High School in Huntington Beach<\/a>. Over the weekend, Marina High chose Cassidy Lynn Campbell as its homecoming queen. What makes that notable is that Cassidy is a transgender student living in a pretty conservative area of Orange County. While she knows there is still a lot of hate left in the community, Cassidy is a proud leader:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cassidy Campbell says she has dealt with some negativity since she decided to run for homecoming queen. She says it&#8217;s all fueled by ignorance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They think that I&#8217;m just a boy doing this for fun, and I&#8217;m just a boy dressing up as a girl and trying to win a crown when that is completely the opposite of what it is,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve always seen myself as a girl.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She hopes her courage will inspire other transgender teens to live life without hiding who they are.(<a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/story?section=news\/local\/orange_county&#038;id=9256575\">KABC &#8211; 7 LA<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With the <a href=\"http:\/\/transgenderlawcenter.org\/archives\/3544\">passage and Jerry Brown&#8217;s signature of Asm. Ammiano&#8217;s School Success and Opportunity Act<\/a>, transgender students will have the freedom to pursue every opportunity that other students have. Equality takes a fight, but with positive signs like this, it is clear that justice is winning.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations Cassidy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[741,1617,4496],"class_list":["post-15236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-741","tag-1617","tag-4496"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3XK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}