Transgender Homecoming Queen [VIDEO] Almost Didn't Happen After Backlash Of Revealing Who She Really Is During New School Year

Transgender homecoming queen was crowned on Friday and what some may have thought was a prank, was really a chance for history to be made as Cassidy Lynn Campbell of an Orange County, Calif. school.

The transgender homecoming queen was not only the first in its county or maybe even the country, but has become an overnight-phenomenon with the history that she made during the halftime of the Marine high school game.

"Knowing that it was only my school and my student body, that's what makes it even more special because they voted for me and they all wanted me and the majority wanted me to win," Campbell told CBS Los Angeles. "Whether I won or not tonight, I already was a winner from the beginning and I knew it. I put my message out there. If this helps one child or more, or hundreds or thousands or millions then it was more than worth it."

Campbell went into this school year not as a gay man she claimed previous, but as the woman she said she always was.

The first bit of backlash came when it was revealed that she made it to the top-10 of the nominations at her school.

"They think that I'm just a boy doing this for fun, and I'm just a boy dressing up as a girl and trying to win a crown when that is completely the opposite of what it is," she said. "I've always seen myself as a girl."

But Campbell defended her decision to run on her Twitter account, according to ABC News.

"My goal isn't to be famous, it's to open people's eyes to the world around them, to teach people to be open minded and to rethink social norms," she wrote.