A transgender senior was voted onto the prom king ballot. His Georgia high school said he could run as queen or not at all.
By Deanna Paul Deanna Paul Reporter covering national and breaking news Email Bio Follow March 22 at 11:15 AM The thought of being nominated to prom court had not crossed high school senior Dex Frier’s mind.
“I’ve never been shown so much support before,” Dex — whose birth name, or, as the transgender community terms it, his “dead name,” is Phenix — told the Times. When he returned home from school that afternoon, he cried.[An Ohio judge blocked transgender teens’ new names, so they set out to change the system]
Neither Schofield nor Johnson High’s principal, Stan Lewis, returned The Washington Post’s request for comment.
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