If there was a transgender student in the running it would have been hailed as so progressive and open minded.

Via NJ Com:

The long-standing tradition of electing a homecoming King and Queen has been canceled at Rumson-Fair Haven High School this year because the process turned into an opportunity for “mass bullying,” Superintendent Pete Righi told RedBankGreen.com.

The vote was canceled after learning that students were planning to elect students whose pairing would be so unlikely it could elicit mocking when they were announced, the report said.

The school administration had been alerted to the plot earlier, and approached student council officers to head it off, but were unable to find an effective way to prevent it, Righi told the website.

The regional school takes students from the towns of Rumson and Fair Haven, which both operate their own elementary and middle schools.

The homecoming court was to have appeared at tonight’s football game.

The RedBankGreen report indicated this wasn’t the first year the Homecoming Court election had devolved into a means of mocking individual students. For that reason, Righi told the website, the tradition had outlived its usefulness.