KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Transgender Oak Park High School senior Landon Patterson is elated that her classmates approve of her lifestyle choices.

“I was so scared to tell everyone, I’m a girl,” Patterson told Fox 4. “I wanted to come out again and tell everyone, I am transgender.”

But boy-turned-girl’s excitement turned to pure jubilation recently when she learned Oak Park students not only accept her gender identity, they nominated Patterson to be this year’s homecoming queen.

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“It meant the world to me,” Patterson said. “People who I never thought would vote for me did. Congratulating me. I was so happy, it just made me feel like a normal girl.”

The attention is nothing new for Patterson, who broadcasted her announcement about turning into a girl to the school and community through a YouTube video posted in May.

According to Seventeen.com, “In many ways, Patterson is exactly the kind of girl you’d expect to be nominated for homecoming queen. She’s a cheerleader with long blond hair who easily racks up dozens of likes on her selfies. But her nomination is far from typical – she’s the first trans girl to ever win the honor at her Missouri high school.”

On May 14, 2015, Patterson wrote that “for my first YouTube video ever I wanted to share the biggest thing about me.”

“I’ve wanted to make this video since about January of last year, but I’ve had some obstacles and a lot of thinking to do and I just had to make sure I was ready and stuff. But now I am really happy to say that I am ready to make this video,” Patterson said to the camera.

“Most people probably think, oh Landon, he’s gay … dresses like a girl and all this stuff.

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“I do dress like a girl, but I’m not just some gay kid, or whatever I’m called. Basically this video is me coming out all over again …

“I wanted to come out all over again and let everyone know I’m transgender, which is just like I have felt for a very, very … long time that I am a girl trapped in this boy’s body. That is just what it is. I don’t feel like a boy at all and I’ve tried that whole guy thing … and that’s not what I am,” she said in the video, which has been viewed 9,136 times.

Patterson has not yet won the title of Oak Park High School Homecoming Queen, but is one of seven students vying for the crown. The queen will actually be selected Sept. 12, Fox 4 reports.

Regardless, students like Patterson’s friend Josie Ballard is already giving the trans teen a round of applause.

“I was just really happy for you,” Ballard told Patterson on Fox 4. “I wanted to support her 100 percent.”

Patterson’s story is becoming increasingly more common in public schools across the country, according to Advocate.com.

The gay news site last year detailed “11 Transgender Kings and Queens Who Ruled the School.”

Walton High School junior Sage Lovell, a Georgia boy-turned-girl, was selected to be part of the homecoming court and dressed up fancy for a football game ceremony with her father as her chaperone.

Meanwhile, 17-year-old Blake Brockington’s parents were no shows for East Mecklenburgh High School’s homecoming ceremony in Charlotte, North Carolina, where the girl-turn-boy was crowned king. Brockington lived in foster care because his parents don’t approve of his transgender status, WCNC reports.

There was also Huntington Beach, California teen Cassidy Lynn Campbell, who was crowned homecoming queen of Marina High School, as well as Mel Gonzalez, of Sugar Land, Texas, the homecoming king at Stephen F. Austin High School.

Colorado Springs’ Scarlett Lenh was named homecoming princess at Sand Creek High School and Ray Ramsey took the honor of homecoming king at Concord High School, in New Hampshire.

In 2013, Steven Sanchez took home the crown as the University of Northern Iowa’s first transqueer homecoming queen, and Cody Tubman was crowned prom queen the same year at Middleboro, Massachusetts’ Middleboro High School, according to Advocate.com.

Several other college and high school students with abnormal gender identities have also taken home crowns in years past, according to the site.