Through difficult circumstances, catty remarks, borderline inappropriate questions and the ignorance of some of your fellow competitors you handled yourself with class and dignity even with a camera lens pointed at you.

I felt your pain of dealing with a transition in a fishbowl situation. My own transition was done in the middle of a major international airport in which 30,000 passengers a day transited through. I don't know if I would have had the courage to do it with most of the planet and the unblinking eye of a television camera following my every move, But if that's what it would have taken for me to become the Phenomenal Transwoman I am today, I would have done so in a heartbeat and with a smile on my face.

But I recognized that not only did you have the weight of our community's shoulders on you in this competition (and I worried about that), you were struggling with the confidence issues that many transwomen have during the early stages of transitioning from the old gender role to the new one.

I'm 15 years into it and I still have nervous butterflies from time to time when I'm thrust into an unfamiliar situation or meet a relative that only remembers the old me. The article I recently read mentioning you'd only been transitioning for two years confirmed what I'd suspected as I watched the episodes of you in that competition unfold from week to week.

Sis, you have the look and the talent to go all the way. I have no doubt that you will succeed at whatever you choose to do. You also have something else that many people don't have who are trying to enter the fashion industry - a worldwide community of people who love you and wish nothing but success for you.

As time goes on, transition will get easier for you, your confidence will grow as you learn who Isis is, get comfortable with your body and figure out what type of woman you want to project to the world. As you work through that ongoing process, you will eventually get to the point in which you feel as strong, sexy, beautiful and confident as the Egyptian queen you chose to name yourself after. The America's Next Top Model experience will only help speed that inevitable day along.

Isis, you are a wonderful role model for us, and as Tyra said, you are an inspiration to many of us inside and outside this community. Hold your head up high and never forget that we love you.

You are a beautiful classy, young woman both inside and out. Never let anybody tell you you're not.

Sincerely yours,

Monica Roberts