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"America's Next Top Model's" First Transgender Contestant

Posted by Lindy Parker

We’ve totally been waiting for this.  What with all the drag queen jokes that Miss Jay and Tyra toss around during judges panel, it's about time they gave the go-ahead to a transgender contestant to compete for the ANTM title. Now, instead of all the snarky “drag queen” asides, we can just have actual transgender contestants on the show.  It’s perfect. As for the model herself, Isis, a 22-year old receptionist from Maryland, says that she identifies herself as “a woman who was born physically male.”   We cannot wait to see the kind of mayhem Isis’ presence will cause in the house – you just know there’s a sorority sister from Alabama with some serious social ignorance just waiting to rear its head. 

Meanwhile, the only person more psyched than us to see Isis on the show is GLAAD president, Neil Guiliano:

"We applaud Tyra Banks and The CW for making this historic visibility of transgender people possible," Guiliano told Us Weekly.

Despite all the hullabaloo, Isis herself seems pretty chill about the whole thing. “I like to help people,  but I’m here to follow my dreams,” she tells Us.  We say, go ahead, girl.  See you on the runway.
 


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Lindy Parker has worked as a ghostwriter, editor, dance instructor and a purveyor of dreams, one beer at a time. She now writes for nerve.com's TV blog, "The Remote Island." She loves Charles Dickens and Gabriel Garcia Marquez and also, straight-to-video releases with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. It's possible she reads more teen fiction than she should. She hails from Los Angeles, her hometown and soul mate, but she lives in Brooklyn, the fling she'll never forget.

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