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Posted by Seth at 5:20 AM on August 14, 2008
Easy, Breezy, Beautiful, Coverperson: Reality TV Transgender Acceptance Alert! Proving itself once again to be at the forefront of social progress, the competitive reality genre has taken a giant leap forward by selecting its first (openly) transsexual contestant: America's Next Top Model's new season will feature 22-year-old aspiring model Isis, who describes herself as "a woman born physically male." It's a decision GLAAD calls "an unprecedented opportunity for a community that is underrepresented on television." We here at Defamer would like to voice our own wholehearted approval, so long as host Tyra Banks promises to resist using the phrase "smile with your phantom balls" at the judging panel. [Us]
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kookla
Posted 6:04 AM 14/8/08
@Old No.7: Then you must not have remembered Janice Dickinson was the first transexual SUPER model.
kookla
lalala27
Posted 5:57 AM 14/8/08
why is this getting so much attention - has no one noticed the tranny competing on the diddy show??
lalala27
NoGrumpys
Posted 5:54 AM 14/8/08
Trannyformers - more than meets the eye
NoGrumpys
NoWireHangers
Posted 5:50 AM 14/8/08
Isis is gonna give Jaslene a run for her money.
NoWireHangers
Dancing Milkcarton
Posted 5:36 AM 14/8/08
Old. No.7 -- you win. Again.
Dancing Milkcarton
Old No.7
Posted 5:32 AM 14/8/08
Color me confused, but I thought Tyra was the first transsexual model.
Old No.7
Old No.7
Posted 6:18 AM 14/8/08
@kookla: Wrong. Janice in her early years was a striking feminine specimen. It's just sad now that she had to have the gender-change surgery, but still refuses to give up the drag-queen wardrobe.
Tyra Banks, on the other hand, was born with a giant penis.
Old No.7
T. L. Morgendorffer
Posted 7:49 AM 14/8/08
Welcome to the 21st Century ANTM...now will you stop with all the kicking and screaming?
T. L. Morgendorffer
kookla
Posted 8:15 AM 14/8/08
@Old No.7: My bad. Janice must have gotten the sex change later in her career.
kookla
Little Mintz Sunshine
Posted 12:19 PM 14/8/08
Aren't all the models on ANTM she-males?
Little Mintz Sunshine
Tara
Posted 4:40 AM 15/8/08
Coryn definitely was. Anyway: some audio from the only confessed "Top Model" tranny.
Tara