A 'third way' solution to transsexual MP

The Daily Telegraph ^ | October 30, 2006 | Malcolm Moore

[MadIvan]

Italy's first transsexual MP, a flamboyant 41-year-old television star, has caused a storm in the houses of parliament by using the female lavatories.

Vladimir Luxuria, 41, an MP for the Communist Refoundation party, was born a man but dresses in women's clothes and prefers to be addressed as a woman. She says she considers herself "neither male nor female".

She was found in the ladies' lavatory by Elisabetta Gardini, a former showgirl who is now a spokesman for Forza Italia, the party led by Silvio Berlusconi.

Miss Gardini allegedly told Ms Luxuria: "This is the ladies', you cannot come in here, get out." She later complained: "It was a thousand miles from my mind that I should walk in and find him there.

"When I went into the toilet I honestly felt very uncomfortable. I felt I had been attacked sexually."

Ms Luxuria said: "At first I thought it was a joke. Then I meekly complied. Afterwards, I got angry. I have been using ladies' bathrooms for years, and I've been using this one at the houses of parliament for six months. Lots of my colleagues have seen me in the bathroom and I often join in the gossip."

Ms Luxuria is described on the parliament's website as a man, but is familiar to every Italian as a woman thanks to her television chat show.

She said: "It would be absurd for me to go pee with the men. There would probably be bigger problems."

The spat has divided politicians and caused a heated debate among parliamentary whips. Mara Carfagna, another Forza Italia MP, said: "If he undergoes the necessary operations and becomes a real woman then no one would have anything to worry about and we would accept him in the woman's bathroom openly."

However, some colleagues have rallied behind Ms Luxuria and the leader of the lower house has called for calm and tolerance.

The most likely solution is that Ms Luxuria will be granted her own private bathroom.

[MadIvan]

I didn't realise in addition to lavatories for Men and Women, they were going to have to provide one for Neuter.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Ping!

[Jaysun]

I'll make the same comment to this article that I recently made to a similar one. It is this:

All perverts should be ostracized, shamed, ridiculed, and humiliated. This is how society has kept itself in check since the beginning of days. Even school kids use ridicule to keep each other in check. Some call it cruel. I call it crucial. We cannot tolerate the "normalization" of perversion.

[Dallas59]

[Mrs Ivan]

The most likely solution is that Ms Luxuria will be granted her own private bathroom.

Why? Are there no cubicles in the gents?

[RWR8189]

The White House Press Corps runs into similar problems:

[MadIvan]

To be honest dear, I wouldn't want transvestites in the gents loo either.

Love, Ivan

[taxesareforever]

You are what you are and not what you want to be. Otherwise everyone would probably want to be Bill Gates.

[Paleo Conservative]

Otherwise everyone would probably want to be Bill Gates.

I would not want to be Bill Gates. I'd just like to have his money.

[rawcatslyentist]

Where's the facilities for Dolphins?

From the South Park episode Mr Garrisons Fancy New Vagina

[Rastus]

The Telegraph jumps right through his hoop and calls him "Ms." My biggest problem with this jackhole is that he's a Communist. Gah.

[Rastus]

Doing an image search, this guy basically looks like a cross between Fran Drescher and Barbra Streisand:



In most other shots, he's basically Tracey Ullman.

[CheyennePress]

I really hoped the Italians would have had more sense than to elect this freak. None of this would have been an issue...

*sigh*

Democracy in all of its grandeur and absurdity.

[Lukasz]

That is how descendants of Roman Empire ended :)

[Lukasz]

I really hoped the Italians would have had more sense than to elect this freak. None of this would have been an issue...

Don’t expect any common sense from communist voters.

[wastoute]

Isn't it an assumption to state the people who live in Rome are descended from Romans?

[Dan Evans]

Seems as I remember there was once a law making it illegal to impersonate a woman. Italians should pass a law like that and solve a lot of misunderstandings.

[Lukasz]

Rather joke.

[Caipirabob]

Vladimir Luxuria, 41, an MP for the Communist Refoundation party, was born a man but dresses in women's clothes and prefers to be addressed as a woman. She says she considers herself "neither male nor female".

Most countries sent their crazies to an asylum. The Italians sent theirs to parliment. Must be a trend. Can't help wondering if we had something to do with it.

[Frwy]

The world is spinning faster and faster toward destruction. Even so, come Lord Jesus.