Transgender ‘Survivor’ Contestant Zeke Smith Outed on National Television

VIOLATION

GLAAD called the episode ‘a gut-wrenching look at the consequences of outing a transgender person against his will.’

Published Apr. 12 2017 11:15PM EDT

articles/2017/04/12/transgender-survivor-contestant-zeke-smith-outed-on-national-television/170412-allen-zeke-tease_wrgkge — Timothy Kuratek/CBS

Zeke Smith didn’t want to be known as the “first transgender Survivor star.”

Now, another contestant has taken that choice away.

During Wednesday night’s episode of Survivor: Game Changer, which finds contestants from previous seasons returning to the “reality” competition show, Jeff Varner unexpectedly outed the 29-year-old Smith as a transgender

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Transgender ‘Survivor’ Contestant Zeke Smith Outed on National Television

GLAAD called the episode ‘a gut-wrenching look at the consequences of outing a transgender person against his will.’

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