Florida Town Finalizes Firing Of Pre-op transsexual City Manager Steve Stanton

[tinkerbell]

After a six-hour hearing, the commissioners decided to fire 48-year-old Steve Stanton after his announcement that he planned a new life as a woman, reports the Associated Press.

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[Stormy Weather]

Can I ask how this story has gone down nationally in the US in the general media and discussion shows? Is it still top of the news?

Has it pushed TG awareness to the top of the agenda? Is it being portrayed favourably or are we as a community being pilloried by more than just the right?

Being in the UK, I can only get slices of the entire picture as filtered through the web.

I know these are general questions, but putting aside your own interests in the matter, how do you feel it's all being played out?

[Julie Marie]

I live in the Chicago area and out of the TG community I've heard nothing.  I don't see it in the papers.  I don't hear about it on the news (but I don't watch news regularly) and not one person at work has said a word.  I'd expect construction workers to bash her if they heard about it.  Were it not for the TG community I would have known nothing about it.

Julie

[Thundra]

Were it not for the TG community I would have known nothing about it.

Congradulations!  The media has decided that TS issues are now mundane. When they decide that something is no longer sensational enough to get ratings, it means that you are now "normal." As in, "hmmmph! Another _______ got fired today. Should we run the story?
Bor-ing! Next!"

Now, if a bunch of crossdressers showed up in Florida to protest the action, in support of the person, well....I guarantee you they would cover that.

[BeverlyAnn]

There was a little coverage on the news in Atlanta but not a lot.

Now, if a bunch of crossdressers showed up in Florida to protest the action, in support of the person, well....I guarantee you they would cover that.

Gee, maybe I should wear my leather mini, fishnets and 5" heels down there and stage a protest.  Oh wait, I don't own anything like that and would have to buy them.  Never mind.

Bev

[Hazumu]

Gee, maybe I should wear my leather mini, fishnets and 5" heels down there and stage a protest.  Oh wait, I don't own anything like that and would have to buy them.  Never mind.

Bev

... But boy-oh-boy, that's what the so-called 'normals' believe we (trans) must always be wearing.

Wait!  maybe that's what they have against us -- they fear we're going to spend every day badly dressed!  (you think?...)  >

Karen

[katia]

they think that ts women choose clothing from the 40s and 50s to reinforce a primary bond with our mothers. i've heard this from another source.

[LynnER]

Clothes from the 40's and 50's?  I think that just means raiding our parrents or grandparrents closets and poor thrift shopping... ICK....

[Kate]

It made CNN a few times... and other national news networks. It was treated as a oddity though, not a discrimination problem so much. Paula Zahn (CNN) couldn't seem to get the amused smirk off her face. They even had "pro and con" commentators to debate the issue... and the PRO guy actually said something like, "Well ok, I'll admit that if this guy was applying for a job to teach small children, I might have a problem with THAT..."

The PRO guy being the one SUPPORTING Steve. Gee, THANKS.

I think it made some of the national magazines like Newsweek.

Otherwise, no... no national outcry against blatant discrimination or anything. We have more important stuff to worry about like the causes of Annah Nicole's death, Britney Spears meltdown, and so on...

Kate

[ChildOfTheLight]

they think that ts women choose clothing from the 40s and 50s to reinforce a primary bond with our mothers. i've heard this from another source.

But what about the younger ones?

[katia]

they're just stereotyping, giving [their opinion] that every ts woman is white, middle age, comes from a home where the father was absent or the mother was ultra-dominant & possessive; you know the typical deal.

[Thundra]

But what about the younger ones?

You [they?] don't exist.

Neither do Intersexed people, or anything else that doesn't fit into their narrow view of the world -- or anything that might upset the apple cart.

They already have their conclusion, so anything that might not fit into the scenario simply, and unequivically cannot exist.

[ChildOfTheLight]

I don't exist, but for other reasons.