“What do you do when you’re branded, but you know you’re a man?”
Go shopping? Open a Country Living Magazine? Run for mayor? The list seems endless.
Not so uncommon in Texas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Gale
Jennifer Lauren Gale (1960 - December 17, 2008) was an American transgender perennial political candidate in Texas. Gale was a native of Wisconsin and a Democrat.
Gale’s first run for elective office came during her bid for Austin mayor in 1997.
In 2004, Gale was challenged by fellow mayoral candidate and popular local vagrant crossdresser Leslie Cochran to a debate at the University of Texas student union on the topic of who would best represent the homeless. Gale declined to participate unless given $50 worth of food from the Wendy’s restaurant inside the union. “Dunlavy”, the event organizer, declined...
Not so uncommon in Texas.
http://www.houstonpress.com/1995-03-16/news/party-of-insiders/
Party of Insiders
Comments (0) By Jim Simmon Thursday, Mar 16 1995
Mincberg, a real-estate developer who was elected party chair last year over Leslie Perez, Houston’s favorite killer transsexual, explained via phone that he’s hoping some individuals and corporations “will be so moved” by his appeal that they’ll urp up the ten grand. “They may or may not be middle-class Americans,” he adds.
http://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Games-Convicted-Murderer-Changed/dp/1559721804
Dangerous Games: The True Story of a Convicted Murderer on Death Row Who Changed His Sex and Won Her Freedom [Hardcover]
Robert L. Bentley
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“In this unusual story, engagingly told by screenwriter Bentley, Leslie Douglas Ashley met Carolyn Lima at a lesbian bar in Houston. In February 1961, soon after moving in together, the pair, who had turned to prostitution, were charged with fatally shooting a customer named Fred A. Tones, leaving his burned body in a vacant lot. A legal battle and media circus ensued. Ashley was sentenced to death; Lima was imprisoned and eventually released. Ashley’s verdict was overturned because the prosecutor improperly hid psychiatric records. Ashley was sent to a mental hospital, escaped and was captured six months later. After serving five years in prison, he was released and underwent a sex-change operation, becoming Leslie Elaine Perez. In a stranger than fiction twist, she became politically active in Houston’s chapter of ACT-UP.”