Kansas City Trans Homecoming Queen Claps Back Against Haterz

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Our blog community sentiment on this story from "many sides" of the equation is that high school isn't important and very little about the social life of students should merit the concern of adults. 

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Today the newspaper dedicates quite a few of their resources to championing the story of this student and the homecoming crown of some insignificant suburban dump . . . 

By the next morning, the ugliness hit — not much from the Kansas City area, as far she could tell, or at all from her schoolmates — but from across the country in a deluge of social media malignancy: on Facebook, Instagram, on X, formerly known as Twitter. Her sister, Francesca, 20, named Oak Park’s homecoming queen in 2020, called from Boston where she attends college, asking if Tristan was all right. She had been reading the barrage of hostility.

“She was worried about Tristan being safe,” said Chari Young, the young women’s mother.

“The comment that has stuck with me,” Tristan said, “was that I should have been dragged off the field by my hair and beaten up.”

How the world came to know that Tristan is trans is still a mystery to her, she said. No one announced it. The North Kansas City school district didn’t mention it in its congratulatory notice. Tristan isn’t even the school’s first transgender homecoming queen.

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

'Tear me down all you want': KC trans homecoming queen defiant amid tirade of hate

"I'm proud of who I am. ... I'm not going to give back the crown," said Tristan Young, a Kansas City transgender student recently named homecoming queen.