Cassidy Lynn Campbell has made her mark in Orange County, as she became her school’s first transgendered teen to win the homecoming queen title Friday night! Hit the jump to see Campbell’s reaction to the victory, her inspiring message and more!
Cassidy Lynn Campell, a 16 year old student at Marina High School, nominated herself as homecoming queen, ” to prove a statement”, and thats exactly what she did!
She rose to the occasion and prepped up for the school’s big event! Yet the transgendered teen was extremely shocked when they announced her as Marina High’s official homecoming queen last night!
“I instantly just dropped to the ground and started crying,” she said.
“I realized it wasn’t for me anymore and I was doing this for so many people all around the county and the state and possibly the world and I am so proud to win this not just for me, but everyone out there,” she told KTLA.
“Campbell began taking hormone blockers and estrogen injections in high school to transition, according to the Los Angeles Times, and has documented her journey in videos on her YouTube channel, LanceMize.”
“If I win it would mean that the school recognizes me as the gender I always felt I was,” she told the L.A. Times earlier this month. “But with all the attention, I realized it’s bigger than me. I’m doing this for the kids who can’t be themselves.”
“The teen’s mother said it’s “wonderful” her daughter won, telling KABC, “I never would have thought in my lifetime that I would see this.”
Although Campbell had much to celebrate that night she took to her YouTube account and posted an upset video of herself in response to the negative backlash she was receiving after her victory.
“After 16 years of struggling, I finally do it and I finally am myself — thinking I’ll be so happy,” she said. “It’s just sad that everyone has to be so judgmental about it, and so hateful, and so mean and so negative. I’ve never done anything to any of these people. And I don’t know why they have to be this way, when I’ve done nothing to them. It just hurts so bad because I feel just as much of a girl as all of them do… Everyone is just so ignorant.”
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