Advocates Hope Transgender Identity Is Not a Defining One
By JESSE McKINLEY and MALIA WOLLAN
Published: October 24, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/25/us/politics/25transgender.html?_r=2&src=tptw (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/25/us/politics/25transgender.html?_r=2&src=tptw)
SAN FRANCISCO — Theresa Sparks, a candidate for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, is running on what some might see as a conservative platform: she is pro-development and anti-loitering, pro-police and anti-grime. She has been endorsed by the mayor, the city's firefighters' union and the county deputy sheriff's association.
But that is not what sets Ms. Sparks apart; it is her past. Until a decade ago, Ms. Sparks was a man, before a gender reassignment surgery. And while her sex may have changed, her politics did not.