You know that this is just the beginning - have they had a historic first transgendered contestant? Somebody in California must already be planning to set that one in motion.
The real headline grabber will be the first pre-op-but-scheduled-for-surgery transsexual contestant, followed in short order by the first biologically-male-but-transgender-questioning contestant.
Actually they have. It was a number of years ago, and he/she may have become transgendered later. I read about it here a couple of years ago. Can't remember if this was a male child raised as a female and later had an operation. It was bizarre, but she was very pretty.