First transgender officer on KC’s police force looks to the future

Kansas City Star ^ | May 31, 2007 | Christine Vendel

[ConservativeStatement]

Jessica, a Kansas City police officer, is 6 feet tall with a chin dimple, pink manicured fingernails and a birth certificate that says “male.”

But in her mind, Jessica believes she has always been a female.

She legally changed her name from David to Jessica last year. And in January, she gained the right to dress as a woman at work.

She asked co-workers to refer to her in female pronouns, like “she” and “her.” She started hormone therapy and removed most of her body hair with laser surgery, but she hasn’t had a sex-change operation, known as gender reassignment surgery. She needs to raise $17,500 first.

[ConservativeStatement]

Didn't I see this on an episode of Starsky & Hutch? Maybe not.

[Scothia]

So do the taxpayers of KC have to pony up for a third restroom?

[claudiustg]

Et tu, Kansas?

How many sane places are left in the US?

[peyton randolph]

Rogers: Why are you always on about women, Stan?

Stan: I want to be one.

Reg: What?

Stan: I want to be a woman. From now on, I want you all to call me Loretta.

Reg: What?

Loretta: It's my right as a man.

Judith: Well, why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?

Loretta: I want to have babies.

Reg: You want to have babies?!

Loretta: It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them.

Reg: But...you can't have babies!

Loretta: Don't you opress me!

Reg: I'm not opressing you, Stan. You haven't got a womb. Where is the foetus going to gestate? You're going to keep it in a box?

Loretta: Sniff.

Judith: Here, I've got an idea. Suppose you agree that he can't actually have babies, not having a womb, which is nobody's fault, not even the Romans', but that he can have the right to have babies.

Rogers: Good idea, Judith. We shall fight the oppressors for your right to have babies, brother. Sister! Sorry.

Reg: What's the point?

Rogers: What?

Reg: What's the point of fighting for his right to have babies, when he can't have babies?

Rogers: It is symbolic of our struggle against opression.

Reg: Symbolic of his struggle against reality.

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Excerpt from Monty Python's Life of Brian

 

[Michael.SF.]

My guess, is 'she' is not going to be bait on the Saturday night red light patrols.

[Just mythoughts]

Well maybe just maybe the rest of the country is ready for Rudy. (a little bit of sarcasm)

[dighton]

[ConservativeStatement]

[GATOR NAVY]

She asked co-workers to refer to her in female pronouns, like “she” and “her.”

Obviously the KSC has decided to obligate HIM. My reply, if asked, would be "wish in one hand, sh*t in the other, and see which one fills up first."

[Paleo Conservative]

She asked co-workers to refer to her in female pronouns, like “she” and “her.”

Why not "it"?

[ReignOfError]

My guess, is 'she' is not going to be bait on the Saturday night red light patrols.

Depends on which stroll.

[ReignOfError]

Et tu, Kansas?

Kansas City is in Missouri.

Yes, there's one in Kansas, too, but Missouri's is the city and KCK the suburb.

[TheThinker]

What a bunch of freaks. How is this a natural tendency to mutilate oneself with modern surgery?

[Slings and Arrows]

Cop-with-a-concealed-weapon ping!

[fieldmarshaldj]

Huggy Bear don’t play dat.

[incredulous joe]

Looks like a dude to me.

[dighton]

She legally changed her name from David to Jessica last year.

Put me on oath as unconvinced.

[dasboot]

Can I pick a date in the pool now for the sexual harassment lawsuit? June 17. 0800hrs

[Michael.SF.]

Looks like a dude to me.

Well, maybe a 'dudette'?

I have a feeling, either way, he/she does not get too much action.

[expatguy]

I’ve always wanted to be a rabbit.