Transsexual faces charges of police impersonation
Tom Sharpe | The New Mexican
Posted: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - 11/25/09

http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Story/Transsexual-faces-charges-of-police-impersonation

An Eldorado transsexual has been charged with impersonating a police officer by stopping a car on Interstate 25, police say.

Randey Michelle "Mikeh" Gordon, 60, is a former male high-school art teacher in Westchester County, N.Y., who caused a stir in 2000 when she took the school year off with pay to have a sex-change operation.

The press coverage has been horrible on this.  The press sensationalizes it by telling her trans-story (she had SRS in 2000) and calling her a "transvestite".

That bothers me as well. Once a person has fully transitioned, they should not be treated as a "transsexual" but simply as their current gender--a woman, like any other woman.

Quote from: Virginia87106 on November 29, 2009, 09:20:30 AM
The press coverage has been horrible on this.  The press sensationalizes it by telling her trans-story (she had SRS in 2000) and calling her a "transvestite".

Yes, or as one radio station's news story put it: "Surgery won't make it so. Sixty year old Randey Michelle Gordon changed himself into a woman with a sex-change operation in 2000.  But it will be up to a jury to decide if she is guilty of impersonating an officer..."

But.... what happened in Randey's life?  I remember when she transititoned and the national attention she got.  She seemed to have her stuff together.  How did she wind up playing pretend cop?