Kansas City Northland High School Builds Trans Royalty Tradition

Look closely at this story beyond reactionary hype and political acrimony . . . 

TRANS TRADITION TAKES HOLD AT KANSAS CITY HIGH SCHOOL & STUDENTS SEEMINGLY EMBRACE NEW GENDER NORMS!!!

That's not an endorsement . . . Merely a statement of fact. 

Old school 'Homecoming' tradition has been deconstructed and now serves as a platform to champion and promote alternatives to traditional female roles.

Go one step further and realize that rhetorical endorsements of a white trans winner supersede efforts to celebrate greater ethnic diversity in the Northland. Real talk: Latina or Asian women don't merit this kind of publicity, even amid talk of more "inclusive" educational institutions and media coverage.

From our vantage . . . Getting worked up over anything involving high school students is a mistake and online pundits often forget that the most important part of any discussion on schools is the well-being and safety of students. 

And so . . . 

In this story, we focus on the perspective of an adult drag queen who still works out of KC and shares her perspective on the new school royalty . . .

The 2023 homecoming queen has had someone to look to during this time, Landon Patterson, a transgender woman who was crowned Homecoming Queen at Oak Park in 2015.

“It just felt good, that reassuring feeling, everything that I went through in 2015, it wasn’t for nothing,” Patterson said. “It makes me happy to see, even though there’s a lot of hate still, her family is there for her, her students are there for her, and love always beats out the hate.”

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

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