Transgender Sebagai America's Next Top Model

Mak ambik ni dari one of the Yahoo Groups yang mak join iaitu sggurls. So mak nak sharelah sikit. Bahawa transgender pun ada peluang untuk menjadi Top models kat Amerika. 

Isis adalah salah seorang daripada 14 orang peserta yang bertanding pada musim baru America's Next Top Model. Isis berusia 22 tahun adalah bekas seorang receptionist, berasal dari Prince George County, Maryland. Isis memperkenalkan dirinya sebagai seorang wanita yang dilahirkan sebagai lelaki. 

Persoalannya ialah adakah dia boleh dijadikan sebagai satu role model? Ini jawapannya. 

 "I like to help people, but I'm here to follow my dreams," Jawabnya apabila ditanya pemberita .

Seterusnya mak petik dari berita berkenaan:

Is America ready for a transgender top model?

Tyra Banks seems to think so -- or at least, she seems to think that a transgender model ought to be able to strut, pose and vogue alongside female hopefuls in a bid to prove she's the next big thing.  Banks' show "America's Next Top Model" will debut Isis, its first transgender contestant, when it begins its 11th season Sept. 3. It's a progressive move for a network reality series, but pushing the envelope, in the modeling realm and on TV, has become the MO of "ANTM": The show has cast multiple gay contestants, and last season crowned a plus-size model as its winner. "We want to redefine what beauty is," said executive producer Ken Mok. "You can be tall, you can be short, you can be plus size, you can be transgender; you don't have to be what the modeling industry says you have to be. That was one of Tyra's original missions." 

 

It's a progressive move for a network reality series, but pushing the envelope, in the modeling realm and on TV, has become the MO of "ANTM": The show has cast multiple gay contestants, and last season crowned a plus-size model as its winner.

"We want to redefine what beauty is," said executive producer Ken Mok. "You can be tall, you can be short, you can be plus size, you can be transgender; you don't have to be what the modeling industry says you have to be. That was one of Tyra's original missions."