Howard family pushes for transgender acceptance
Will Gullucci and his mother want police, schools to be more sensitive
March 04, 2011|By Janene Holzberg, Special to The Baltimore Sun
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-03-04/news/bs-ho-neighbors06-20110304_1_transgender-people-county-police-physical-gender (http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-03-04/news/bs-ho-neighbors06-20110304_1_transgender-people-county-police-physical-gender)
When a photo of a guy dressed in women's clothing suddenly flashed on the screen near the end of an intense slide show on teenage drunken driving, Will Gullucci felt humiliated.
Gullucci, a Marriotts Ridge High School senior who had "come out" as a transgender person just two years ago and is leading her life as a girl, listened as her fellow seniors laughed loudly. After all the serious shots of drunken teens and car accidents, the larger-than-life photo seemed gratuitous to Gullucci.
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She approached the county police officer who'd given the presentation to tell him what she thought of it, Gullucci said, but soon realized she "may as well have been talking to a brick wall."