Call Ed: Settling for exclusion
November 7, 2018
While playing on George Washington University’s women’s basketball team, Kye Allums became the first transgender female National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) athlete to compete Division I basketball in 2010. Three years later, Fallon Fox, American Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter, became t...
Menstruation as a transgender male
Annie O'Brien, health and wellness editor
October 19, 2018
One of the issues the transgender community in our country, and in our school especially, faces if dealing with menstruation as a transgender male. The main way to alleviate some of the stigma around it is education, but in the meantime, providing trash cans in the stalls of men’s bathrooms is a simple...
Using the restroom in peace
Logan Crews, opinions editor
February 24, 2018
I didn’t realize how much of a luxury it was to pee in public until I no longer felt safe in a binary bathroom. Even though my body didn’t physically change when I came out as transgender, I no longer feel welcome in women’s restrooms. Even though my mind is male through and through, I’m not ...
LGBT+ Podcast: Being transgender in high school
Logan Crews, opinions editor
February 23, 2018
Logan Crews, opinions editor, and Hayden Wilson, sophomore, talk about their experiences being transgender in high school from coming out to bathrooms to awkward encounters.
To find oneself
Ally Ortmann, features writer
December 6, 2017
Known for being an openly transgender student dedicated to securing rights for the LGBTQ+ community, Hayden Wilson, sophomore, has struggled to gain freedom from society and his own mind. Hayden was diagnosed with depression in October of his eighth grade year while still identifying with his birth sex. Hayden was born female and had not questioned his sexual or gender identity until finding l...
To pee or not to pee?
Claire Boysen, opinions writer
October 7, 2016
You raise your hand and ask if you may use the restroom. The teacher says “sure”, so you get up and walk to the hallway. And that’s when you realize, you must make a choice: women’s or men’s. Which will you choose? Or, like some students at KHS, is it neither? With people identifying as a gender besides...
Neutral is normal
Julia Wunning-Zimmer, opinions writer
May 12, 2015
They might make up only 0.3 percent of the population of the United States, according to Gary J. Gates. It might be something people aren’t used to. It might be something people are afraid of talking about. But a person who is transgender should not be “known” for anything. People who are transgender a...
KHS makes accomodations for transgender students
Abby Christensen, news editor
October 9, 2014
His mother teased him about it and his father told him to stop seeking attention. He said his family practically disowned him for it. His peers and teachers refused to use male pronouns around him, and he was not allowed to use the male restrooms, or try out for the male sports teams, even though he...
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