A transgender teen at the Tidioute Community Charter School found out on Friday that he will be prom king. But the good news comes after a lot of controversy.









At first, school administrators stripped Oliver Morgan's name off the ballot.









"I knew it would stir some feathers being a transgender kid running for prom king. I just wanted to make sure that it would be allowed by the school because I didn't want anyone else to have to pave that way for other kids in the future," Morgan said.









Oliver Morgan, though just 15 years old, is a senior at the Tidioute School where some people still know him as Allyvia. He came out as transgender about a month ago, and started asking people to call him Oliver and use the male pronoun.









The race for prom court ended in a tied 31-31 vote. Now, Morgan will be taking his girlfriend Hannah to prom on Saturday night as a co-prom king.









But it wasn't easy getting there - when the school administration found out Morgan was on the ballot on Thursday, just two days before prom, they took him out of the running.









The school's CEO and principal, Doug Allen, broke the news to Morgan's mom, Monica, who also teaches at the school. She then told Morgan. He cried after he found out.









"He (Allen) told the coordinator of prom and the ballots that I couldn't run because I was a girl. And that because I was female, I couldn't run on the king ballot," Morgan said.









Allen says the school made the decision before fully understanding the situation, and that he didn't know Morgan is transgender.









"My first reaction after the vote was, did somebody write in 'Oliver' as a prank? In other words, I was not aware as principal that that's how she'd like to be known," Allen said.









Family members took to social media. A Facebook group called "Allyvia for Prom King" got more than 600 likes overnight, bringing a lot of support for Morgan and backlash on the school's decision.









Then on Friday, the school changed their minds.









"Through the investigation today (Friday), she and her mother explained to me that she's very serious about being transgender and wants to be on the court. We're not going to stop that or prevent it," Allen said.









Mrs. Morgan, says as a mom, it was a fight she had to take on.









"I want them to know that Allyvia has the same rights as Oliver, as Allyvia. It doesn't matter. Rights are still rights and every child should have the same opportunities as another," Mrs. Morgan said. "This is an issue out there and we want to educate people," she said.









Despite the controversy, Morgan says he's just grateful for all the support and how the situation turned out.









"There was a complete outpouring of support and love and it was just amazing," Morgan said. "That's what I hope for in the end, that any transgender kid who wants to run for queen or king whatever they identify with, will be able to," he said.









Morgan is headed to Penn State University's main campus in the fall, and is graduating Tidioute with a 4.55 GPA.







