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(California) Sweetwater High crowns its first-ever transgender queen
10 News ^ | 9/18/18 | Laura Acevedo

Posted on 09/20/2018 2:43:10 PM PDT by Simon Green

Sweetwater Union High School is celebrating a milestone that's breaking social barriers.

Karl Cruz was crowned the first-ever transgender homecoming queen in the district at Friday's homecoming game. She was voted in by her classmates.

The 18-year-old says she was shocked but happy to know her classmates are accepting of who she is.

"Everyone started cheering for me. I didn't really expect that from anyone," Cruz said. "After the fireworks, I just started crying my eyes out."

Her principal says she was proud when Cruz was crowned queen because it shows the school creates a safe environment for all students, including LGBTQ students.

"I was extremely proud. I can't say I was surprised. Every single student should be accepted for who they are," Principal Maribel Gavin said. "They're all wonderful human beings that are here to learn."

Cruz is not only homecoming queen but she's also on the principal's honor roll and is involved in several school clubs.


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1 posted on 09/20/2018 2:43:10 PM PDT by Simon Green
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why is this news?


2 posted on 09/20/2018 2:44:41 PM PDT by jarwulf
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OH please next time give the “BARF ALERT” before posting a nasty picture


3 posted on 09/20/2018 2:44:44 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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"...high school crowns its first male Homecoming Queen for this year..."


How brave. How liberating. How nauseatingly predictable and trite.

4 posted on 09/20/2018 2:47:07 PM PDT by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: Morgana

There’s a reason locals call National City, Nasty City.


5 posted on 09/20/2018 2:47:20 PM PDT by calicard
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99% of students were supportive and understanding of it, he, she... /propaganda


6 posted on 09/20/2018 2:47:32 PM PDT by Professional
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National City that figures. Should be Polluted Water School District. Or Illegalsville.


7 posted on 09/20/2018 2:47:34 PM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: Blue Jays

Well said sir, well said...


8 posted on 09/20/2018 2:48:05 PM PDT by Professional
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To: Simon Green

Transgender people make up a fraction of the population and somehow make the news all of the time.


9 posted on 09/20/2018 2:53:28 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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Idiot, maggot writer...she is a he! I don’t give a rats what it calls itself.


10 posted on 09/20/2018 2:55:24 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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They’ve crowned queen someone who defines himself as a queen. He cheated. He didn’t get crowed queen. He already was one. How could he lose? Now give the students of Sweetwater High the chance to vote a guy king and a girl queen, as has been the tradition of U.S. high schools until Marxism took hold.


11 posted on 09/20/2018 2:56:14 PM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now
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They’ve crowned queen someone who defines himself as a queen. He cheated. He didn’t get crowed queen. He already was one. How could he lose? Now give the students of Sweetwater High the chance to vote a guy king and a girl queen, as has been the tradition of U.S. high schools until Marxism took hold.


12 posted on 09/20/2018 2:56:14 PM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now
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Shouldn’t it have been stated queer instead of queen?


13 posted on 09/20/2018 2:57:19 PM PDT by okie 54
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Sweetwater High?

Sooner or later, this will come to Sweet Valley High.

The wrong kind of girl indeed.

14 posted on 09/20/2018 2:58:44 PM PDT by x
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Did the king get expelled for refusing to kiss him?


15 posted on 09/20/2018 3:00:20 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
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40%+_ chance of suicide fro trannies.

The parents must be so proud of themselves for what is, essentially, a death sentence.

If they were to send a child to play in the freeway the mortality rate would be lower.


16 posted on 09/20/2018 3:00:55 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (As always IMHO)
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Has the world gone mad?


17 posted on 09/20/2018 3:02:34 PM PDT by Jaysin
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(California) (where else) Sweetwater High crowns its first-ever transgender queen queer
18 posted on 09/20/2018 3:03:17 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: Morgana

The Barf Alert should be implicit in the title — it is to me.


19 posted on 09/20/2018 3:03:19 PM PDT by Category Four (Joy, Fun, the Joke Proper, and Flippancy ... Flippancy is the best of all.)
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To: jarwulf

I was trying to think of a snarky way to say the same thing. You did it succinctly, and without being snarky.

Why IS this news?


20 posted on 09/20/2018 3:04:05 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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