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Title: Stanton carefully built 'circle of trust'
Post by: LostInTime on February 26, 2007, 07:44:42 AM
Post by: LostInTime on February 26, 2007, 07:44:42 AM
The Largo city manager began revealing to other officials in 2003 that he is transsexual. (http://www.sptimes.com/2007/02/25/Tampabay/Stanton_carefully_bui.shtml)
"I am a transsexual," he said. "Now maybe you can understand why I am somewhat silent on the human relations ordinance."
"Oh, God," Burke said. "Honest to God, I thought you were going to tell me you were gay.
"This doesn't change how I feel about you as a city manager, as a person and as a friend."
Burke was the first official - and one of the first people other than Stanton's wife - to know that he was a transgender person.
"I am a transsexual," he said. "Now maybe you can understand why I am somewhat silent on the human relations ordinance."
"Oh, God," Burke said. "Honest to God, I thought you were going to tell me you were gay.
"This doesn't change how I feel about you as a city manager, as a person and as a friend."
Burke was the first official - and one of the first people other than Stanton's wife - to know that he was a transgender person.