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Title: Casino denies access to Dallas trans woman
Post by: LostInTime on August 03, 2007, 02:07:15 PM
Post by: LostInTime on August 03, 2007, 02:07:15 PM
Dallas Voice (http://www.dallasvoice.com/artman/publish/article_6256.php)
By John Wright Staff Writer
Aug 2, 2007, 18:59
However, because Pleasant's ID indicates that she's male, the man working the door wouldn't let her in, she said.
"He said if you're a man, then you have to look like a man to come into our casino," Pleasant said. "We were just dismissed, totally. It was a blatant display of discrimination to me."
Pleasant, as a female impersonator whose stage name is Kandy, is unable to get her ID changed because she has not undergone transition surgery and Texas has no gender-marker law.
By John Wright Staff Writer
Aug 2, 2007, 18:59
However, because Pleasant's ID indicates that she's male, the man working the door wouldn't let her in, she said.
"He said if you're a man, then you have to look like a man to come into our casino," Pleasant said. "We were just dismissed, totally. It was a blatant display of discrimination to me."
Pleasant, as a female impersonator whose stage name is Kandy, is unable to get her ID changed because she has not undergone transition surgery and Texas has no gender-marker law.