Whatever Happened to Equal Rights?

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Whatever Happened to Equal Rights?
By Joni Kay Rose

http://alibi.com/index.php?scn=news&story=32488

A Santa Fe County woman pled guilty to misdemeanor charges of impersonating a police officer on Friday, May 28, in return for probation and community service. Police said in August that she pulled someone over using flashing lights and a bullhorn. She attributes her lapse in judgment to "an unrecognized psychological obsession, brought on by many years of wanting to be a police officer."

The case might have attracted little attention were the accused not transgender. At the conclusion of KRQE's Nov. 25 account of the case, a reporter pointed out that in 2000, "she took a year off with pay from her job as a school teacher to have a sex-change operation."