A transgender boy won the title of prom royalty at a Georgia high school following a national outcry when it appeared he’d been barred from doing so in accordance with his gender identity. Dex Frier was named one of two “royal knight” seniors at the March 23 prom at Johnson High School in Gainesville, Georgia. The student, who has publicly identified as transgender since his sophomore year, said he was later told by school officials that he would only be permitted to run as prom queen. “Just because I’m not legally male I was going to get excluded from something that every guy has the opportunity to be in high school. It was really upsetting,” Frier told BuzzFeed in a March 21 interview.

Source: Huffington Post March 26, 2019 13:30 UTC