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Title: America's first transgender mayor (+video)
Post by: Shana A on November 16, 2008, 10:12:13 AM
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.php (http://www.gaynz.com/articles/publish/3/article_6755.php)

Thirteen 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."