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Title: Italy parliament fights over transgender MP toilet
Post by: LostInTime on October 27, 2006, 02:40:05 PM
Post by: LostInTime on October 27, 2006, 02:40:05 PM
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The thorny question rocked Italy's lower house, home to Europe's first transvestite MP, on Friday.
"You can't use this lavatory. This is the women's bathroom," Vladimir Luxuria reported being told by centre-right lawmaker Elisabetta Gardini on Friday, triggering a spat that forced the speaker of parliament to intervene.
Born male, Luxuria wears women's clothes but has not had sex-change surgery. Elected for the centre-left in April, the 40-year-old former drag queen and defender of gay rights prefers to be called "she".
The thorny question rocked Italy's lower house, home to Europe's first transvestite MP, on Friday.
"You can't use this lavatory. This is the women's bathroom," Vladimir Luxuria reported being told by centre-right lawmaker Elisabetta Gardini on Friday, triggering a spat that forced the speaker of parliament to intervene.
Born male, Luxuria wears women's clothes but has not had sex-change surgery. Elected for the centre-left in April, the 40-year-old former drag queen and defender of gay rights prefers to be called "she".