The mayor-elect's new clothes: Silverton, Oregon, elects a transgender leader
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Kim Murphy
11/20/2008
"My first two terms, I was a very straight-looking guy," said Rasmussen, 60, a software engineer who has written on transgender issues. "Now, I writeunder the name Carla Fong, but basically I'm Stu in Silverton. Honestly, it would be too much trouble to retrain the whole town."
Rasmussen walks down Silverton's Norman Rockwell-like main street in a
plunging purple top revealing impressive cleavage, with a tight black
miniskirt, flowing red locks and dagger-like red nails.