First Black Transsexual Delegate Headed to Dems’ Convention

[Shana A]

First Black Transsexual Delegate Headed to Dems' Convention
by Kilian Melloy
EDGE Contributor
Monday Mar 31, 2008

http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=glbt&sc2=news&sc3=&id=72406

Who's got a big tent now? This election season, for the first time, the Democratic National Committee will include a transgendered African-Amercian delegate.

Marisa Richmond, long a veteran of election-year politics and conventions and a professor of history at Middle Tennessee State University, won't be the only transgendered member of the convention; the DNC's chairman, Howard Dean, has also appointed Diego Sanchez to a committee, making Sanchez the first transgendered platform committee member and the first to be called up by a DNC chairman.

[Ell]

Marisa Richmond, ...won't be the only transgendered member of the convention; the DNC's chairman, Howard Dean, has also appointed Diego Sanchez to a committee, making Sanchez the first transgendered platform committee member and the first to be called up by a DNC chairman.

That is cool!

Thanks, Z

-ellie