Largo Affair -- from a transgender perspective

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Transgender activists say there's only one thing unusual about the case of Largo, Fla., City Manager Steve Stanton: Not that he's being fired for planning to become a woman, but the deluge of publicity he's gotten as a result.

''This is something I'd like to start asking around of straight people: What is the big deal?'' said Gloria Stein of Lauderdale Lakes, who lived her first 62 years as auto wrecker Bernard ''Butch'' Rosichan. A year after retiring in 1996, Rosichan began the complicated process of changing genders. First hormone treatments, then surgery in 2001, she emerged as Gloria.

(Emphasis mine -K)

Finally the media gets around to doing their homework and trying to present a slightly truer picture.  Perhaps this article will get a few more questions asked and a few more facts presented to the public...

Karen