eddie and johnny fully endorse this move

America's Next Transgender Top Model?
Transgender Contestant Isis Will Compete on 'America's Next Top Model'
By SHEILA MARIKAR
Aug. 22, 2008
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Isis, 22, is "America's Next Top Model's" first transgender contestant.
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More PhotosTyra 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."

Banks didn't set out searching for a transgender model for "ANTM's" 11th season, in which 14 wannabe catwalkers vie for a contract with Cover Girl cosmetics and representation by Elite Model Management. They found Isis, 22, when she was living in a homeless shelter "ANTM" visited last season for a photo shoot that paired contestants with disadvantaged girls.

"She participated in the shoot and we didn't know anything about her," Mok said. "But when we started reviewing the photos, the girl that kept popping out of the background was Isis. She really knew what she was doing. Tyra wanted to know who she was. It was clear she really had a passion for modeling. So when it came to casting this season, we said, 'Why don't we find that girl?'"


A Jewel in the Rough
Leggy and lean, Isis looks like she can strut with the best of them. Still physically male, Isis is saving money to afford a sex change operation, Mok said.

She's not the first transgender person to break into the modeling world: In the '80s, Teri Toye and Billy Beyond modeled for Chanel and Todd Oldham, respectively. Model-turned-pop singer Amanda Lear built her career in the 1970s on keeping her sex status ambiguous. (Word on the street was she was born a man.)

good for her, i hope she wins.

Anxiety said:

wait till the swimsuit episode....


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Fury said:

why, is she going to wear URL code?

Anxiety said:

DAMN YOU AND YOUR ABUSIVE POWERS TO EDIT MY POSTS BEFORE I CAN FIX THEM

Fury said:

you are just wrong for that.

Will this be a pre-op transgender model?

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Fury said:

whats wrong with his eye?

paintedlady said:

the culturally progressive commentary in this thread is knocking me off my feet, people. i think if these posts get any more backwards, we might actually be able to summon the ghost of granny clampett.

paintedlady said:

its all just rotting fish, i mean flesh right?

Anxiety said:

seriously... it is rude as hell.. but I am curious.

horatio said:

They can't be fishy... they don't menstruate. So would it be more "asscracky" ?

paintedlady said:

maybe like if you forget to brush your teeth?

paintedlady said:

horatio said:

No... the bacteria in our mouths is different, and don't we carry lots of bacteria in our mouths compared to vaginas?

I wouldn't go down on a woman since I only like the smell of my own coochie. So this is why I ask.

Anxiety said:

Stop it!!! I am trying to ask a real question I always had. really.

paintedlady said:

i think its all the same bacteria everywhere

paintedlady said:

look. it's not a birth created vajayjay, so it can't smell like fish. and it's not part of a poohole, so it's not going to smell asscracky.

you know how grape kool-aid doesn't taste or smell like grapes? well, that's what a tranny snoopy tastes and smells like. grape kool aid. and when they reach climax, the kool-aid man bursts through her hoo hoo and screams "OH YEAH!"

any other questions?

Anxiety said:

Can this be my new siggy?

Anxiety said:

how do you know this.....

paintedlady said:

only if you attribute it to tranny clampett.

Anxiety said:

so... the smell is more like "funky inny bellybutton"


TY Anx

paintedlady said:

no, it's like a bottle of 3121.

Anxiety said:

3121 = tranny pussy?

horatio said:

if you sing it the right way, "tranny pussy" kinda sounds like "controversy"

"when u get high, does ur daddy cry? TRANNY PUSSY!"

horatio said:

Anxiety said:

trannypussy talk to tyra before its too late before its too late..trannypussy talk to tyra before its too late they gonna think i'm a girl

Fury said:

OMFG

Fury said:

trannypussy come 2 me
Talk 2 me, ravish me
liberate my mind