- Theresa Sparks
Police Commission President Theresa Sparks (left) at a meeting with former President Louis Renne.
Theresa Sparks looks at her 2003 Woman of the Year Resolution after becoming the first transgender woman to win it.
Posted on 05/12/2007 2:56:40 PM PDT by SmithL
If ever there was a real-life, rags-to-riches fairy tale, Theresa Sparks' story is it.
Only, this being San Francisco, Cinderella used to be a man and went from riches (traveling in a corporate jet) to rags (driving a taxi and sleeping on friends' couches) to prominence again by becoming a pioneering transgender activist and the chief executive officer of a multimillion-dollar sex-toy company.
It's not the way Sparks, 58, ever thought her life would turn out.
As she says in her profile on an Internet dating site, she's "just another San Francisco trans-woman with the uncanny ability to get myself into trouble."
But this week Sparks started what could be one of the most important chapters in her life when she was voted president of the San Francisco Police Commission. Her election shook up City Hall -- she beat out Mayor Gavin Newsom's pick for the job and prompted a prominent member of the board to resign abruptly.
After her election as president of one of the city's most powerful commissions, which oversees department operating rules and sets crucial policies, Newsom's administration is promising to work well with her, the transgender community is hailing her ascent as groundbreaking, and Sparks is enjoying the ride.
"Yesterday, I hit a new record in phone calls," Sparks said Friday, juggling a morning of interview requests from the media and meeting appointments with Newsom and other City Hall politicos. "I actually had to start counting them. Fifty-three!"
It's a far cry from the life she led a decade ago when, shortly after she transitioned from being a man to a woman, Sparks suffered countless rejections of job applications and was a near-homeless cabdriver.
"I went on 30 interviews, sent out 150 resumes," she said. "I couldn't find a job."
They were barriers...
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
- Theresa Sparks
Police Commission President Theresa Sparks (left) at a meeting with former President Louis Renne.
Theresa Sparks looks at her 2003 Woman of the Year Resolution after becoming the first transgender woman to win it.
The world has turned upside down..
San Fransicko loves to reward their mentally ill citizens...
San Francisco: the nation’s joke factory.
Maybe we can make a deal with the jihadists.
We give ‘em San Francisco and call it even.
[cue Michael Myers as Austin Powers...]
[...come on, you know the quote, say it with him...]
“That’s a MAN, baby!”
I’m just waiting for someone to post a picture of Ms (Mr.) Garrison from South Park.
Sometimes I wonder how a man decides he’d be better off as a woman. Do you look at your Johnson one day and think: this just isn’t working out? Thankfully, its a mystery to me.
Just one more reason to never, ever visit San Fransicko again...
Well, isn’t that spesh.
It’s parents must be so proud.
Just to clarify, Ms Renne there indeed has two X chromosomes ... These days, you really do need those silent e's.
Unbelievable.....but in San Francisco, deviency, trash, debauchery and other forms of sub humanity are celebrated. If there was ever a modern Sodom and Gomorrah, we have it right here in the good ole USA. Dont be caught there during the Rapture.
“Fairy tale”? LOL. I bet their op-ed page will be filled with irate readers opposed to use of the word “fairy”.
No wonder the police department doesnt crack down on crimes against nature. The leadership over the department commits crimes against nature every day.
What a freak show San Francisco is.
In better times this clown would be stoned in the town square.
Another San Francisco success story! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Don't laugh, thanks to that idiot Bratton, LAPD officers carry Nerf flashlights, now.
Why anyone would be a Cop in SF is beyond me. No self respect I guess.
Wha????? No more "maglights?"
You forgot the barf alert!
wow...thanks :o(
(Guy on left): "Oh crap, would you please STHU already!!"
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