Jackie Green, an 18-year-old transgender teen, has made it to the semi-finals of the Miss England national competition. She’s the first transgender person to ever do so!
Jackie transitioned just two years ago, the Mirror reports:
Born Jack, she had the seven-hour gender reassignment operation—which is not performed on under-18s in the UK—in Thailand on her 16th birthday.
Her mum Susie remortgaged her house to pay £28,000 for treatment and flights after her daughter attempted suicide five times.
Susie, 43, said: “I’m really proud of her. She’s been through an awful lot but she has chosen to put herself out there and at risk.
“There is a lot of prejudice out there but she is trying to make people understand this isn’t a choice and it can be OK.”
Jackie, for her part, says she’s “ecstastic” to have made it this far, telling the Mirror: “Lots of people have been in touch and it makes me blush to think I have inspired others. I never thought I would be able to inspire anyone.”
Best of luck to Jackie. She and Canada’s Jenna Talackova are certainly blazing trails as transgender beauty-pageant pioneers.
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THIS IS NOT GAY NEWS,QUEERTY!!!
Sweetbrandigirl2004
She’s NOT Transgender….She’s a POST-OP Transsexual and thats the ONLY reason they allowed her in. The Transgender DON’T have Sex Changing Surgery they don’t want it or need it as they don’t have an opposite brain gender or gender dysphoria. Stop shoving those with transsexualism under your stupid transgender umbrella and quit co-oping their condition.
William
How awesome for her! and to clarify, a transsexual person is transgender, but not all transgender people are transsexual. And yes, many transgender people do have reassignment surgeries, so stop trying to define an entire group of people that you seem to know very little about, Sweetbrandigirl.