Transgender voted Prom Queen

[gabeana]

My son goes to this school and it is true great kids all around

http://www.thecalifornian.com/story/news/2015/05/08/angies-crowning-achievement/27002843/

"When I got there they were calling all the nominees … to the dance floor. They announced prom king. And before they announced prom queen, my friend started chanting 'Angie, Angie', and a lot of people joined in. It was so loud I didn't even get to hear my name called."

[hunter]

1. So many kids today are awesome.

They've truly left behind the racism and LGBT fears and hates of their ancestors.

It's beyond the color and gender "blindness" claimed by so many of their parents (the How dare you call me a bigot! I have LGBT friends and employees! syndrome) and an active recognition of the difficulties faced by so many people in this society; a celebration of people as they ARE, every color, every ability, every sexual orientation, and every gender identity.

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. I also have to tip my hat to parents who simply love their children.

...and parents who get it when it comes to acceptance.

Without parents like those, these children would repeat those same ills. It warms my heart to see the next generation getting it right.

[hunter]

4. My grandparents, bless their hearts, were all "accepting" people of the roaring 'twenties sort.

They were fortunate to have Great Depression Hollywood and Southern California aeronautics and shipyard work, and they knew it.

My grandparents, all of them, had gay friends, black friends, Latino friends, Jewish friends, Japanese friends, and so on. And they protected their friends, coworkers, and neighbors as best they could.

But it was still mostly "separate but equal."

My eccentric genius paternal grandfather, a guy who had been an Army Air Force officer in World War II keeping other "eccentric" people deemed essential to the war effort out of jail, still had trouble when I was dating, in his own words, "A Mexican Girl." He boycotted our wedding, "Mexican Girls" in his Old White Wild West family were off limits, even those who had far deeper histories in the Americas than he did, going back tens of thousands of years, and in the case of unspeakable Irish Catholic ancestors, by decades at least.

To his credit my grandpa got over all of that.

[StevieM]

12. That is pretty extraordinary given that it wasn't even until the 1970s that the American Psychiatric

Association removed homosexuality from their list of diseases.

There was an episode of Dallas in the late 70s when a guy Lucy was interested in told Bobby he was gay. Bobby was far more tolerant than JR or Jock. An yet even Bobby responded "I'm so sorry."

[gabeana]

8. Very true about this generation

When my son was 10, I asked him what he thought about Gay Marriage and he responded "What do I care if 2 men get married"

[hifiguy]

15. He cut directly through to the crux of the biscuit, as Frank Zappa put it,

with a logical and rhetorical chainsaw. He gets it.

[Lunabell]

3. And the best part...

"Pratt (Merry Pratt, psychology teacher at Salinas High) said she spoke with some student leaders who said the voting for prom queen was sincere and honest, and not a prank. They voted out of love and respect, not of making fun, Pratt said."

[damnedifIknow]

5. And pretty much the looks of a model also

[Initech]

6. In a sea of just bad news, it's good to see a story like this.

[d_legendary1]

7. That's pretty cool

There is some hope for this future generation after all.

[Xyzse]

9. Good for her and the schoolbody.

[SoapBox]

10. Bravo and Congratulations!

(Another reason that I will never leave The Golden State)

[City Lights]

11. It's so good to read this!

Way to go, kids!

[progressoid]

13. Excellent!

[vankuria]

14. Nice to hear

and she really is beautiful! I bet she has an equally beautiful heart as well.