‘Dance Moms’ Star Zackery Torres: ‘I’m Transitioning & Excited About It’
While jumping back on TikTok after some time away, ‘Dance Moms‘ star Zackery Torres announces that they are transitioning and are “excited about it.”
In Torres quick clip, captioned, “LIFE UPDATE,” they reveal, “I’m transitioning. That means I’m transgender if you didn’t know. My pronouns are they/she, which means that they or she are totally fine, and I’m just hopping on here to tell you that I’m going to be posting more on TikTok and I’m excited about it!”
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As a refresher, Torres, who is 22-years-old, joined the ‘Dance Mom‘ franchise as the first male-born contestant on ‘Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition.’ prior to joining the Candy Apple team for ‘Dance Moms.’ While attending the University of Southern California — where they were studying for a bachelor of fine arts degree in dance, and now gettin a master of arts in public relations & advertising — Zackery came out as non-binary.
Speaking with USC’s ‘Daily Trojan‘ newspaper, Zackery previously stated, “I started seeing all of the expectations that teachers — well-known dance teachers, and well-known choreographers — had for me as a male dancer growing up and at the time identifying as a boy. ‘Oh, you’re too feminine, you need to dance like a man.’ Just having teachers tell you that on national television, all this stuff, it kind of really got to me. Everyone always talks about how inclusive the arts communities are. But I’m just not really feeling it. I’m not seeing it on an everyday scale.”
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