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Nigel Barker: Transgender on 'America's Next Top Model' shocking but necessary

After five years and 10 cycles, there are certain elements viewers have grown to expect from ' America's Next Top Model.' There's the Ivy Leaguer who thinks she's too smart for modeling, the mean girl who'd seemingly rather fight than model, the affable lesbian who acts as a foil to the conservative Christian and the 'issue' girl -- in past cycles we've seen blindness, Asperger's syndrome, female...

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