America's first transgender mayor (+video)
Posted in: International Daily News
By
GayNZ.com Daily News Staff - 16th November 2008
http://www.gaynz.com/articles/publish/3/article_6755.phpThirteen years after Kiwi transgender world-first Georgina Beyer became mayor of Carterton, America has elected its first mayor – in a landslide victory.
America's first transgender mayor: Stu Rasmussen (pic: ABC News)
Stu Rasmussen was dressed in a shirt and trousers the first time he was elected mayor of Silverton, Oregon – but this time around, he's in a dress and full make-up.
A heterosexual man who has a girlfriend, Rasmussen says he likes to dress as a woman, and has breast implants.
"I identify mostly as a heterosexual male. But I just like to look like a female," he explains. "Some guys' mid-life crisis is motorcycles or sports cars or climbing mountains or trophy wives or whatever. I always wanted cleavage, so I went out and acquired some."