Transgender // Current

Vladimir Luxuria, regina o reginetta?

E’ l’argomento del giorno: Vladimir Luxuria, una transgender, ha vinto L’Isola dei Famosi 2008. Se nella... more

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Norme in materia di correzione dell’attribuzione di sesso

È stata avanzata una proposta di legge che revisiona l'antiquata legge 164/82 riguardo le norme in materia di... more

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Jace 7 weeks on testosterone

I am taking testosterone because I am transitioning from female to male. I think my voice is gettin to be pretty low now.

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Transgender Woman Murdered

Dwight DeLee, the suspect accused of shooting and killing a transgender woman Friday night because she was transgender, is being... more

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A Day Without A Gay

In the light of recent events that have taken place in the state of California, many people have decided that it’s time to... more

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female to male transgender 6 weeks on hormones

This is what I look and sound like 6 weeks on testostrone. I talk about changes that have happened to my body and some things that... more

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The First Transgender Mayor

Stu Rasmussen is a heterosexual male who appears to be a female. Stu was elected mayor of Silverton, Oregon, the nation's... more

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The Fallout Over Prop 8

Nation Editor Richard Kim, activist and author Jewelle Gomez, Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou author of the forthcoming book Gods, Gays,... more

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Stonewall was a RIOT

Stonewall's decision to nominate transphobic Julie Bindel of The Guardian for the Journalist of the Year award sparked an... more

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America's First Transgender Mayor: Stu Rasmussen

Plenty of politicians reinvent themselves, but few do it quite like Mayor-elect Stu Rasmussen. Rasmussen has been a fixture in... more

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Transgender man elected Mayor of Silverton

Stu Rasmussen served two terms as the Mayor of Silverton in the 1990s. But he hadn't admitted to being transgender. He's not the same man now that he was then. Today he wears a skirt and high heels. He has breast implants, and long red hair. He looks like a woman - but he's not.

"I indentify mostly as a heterosexual male," Rasmussen said. "But I just like to look like a female."

Rasmussen is a man. He even has a girlfriend. He says he's always been transgender, but he only "came out" a few years ago.

"Some guys mid-life crisis is motorcycles or sports cars or climbing mountains or throphy wives or whatever." Rasmussen said his mid-life crisis was quite different. "I always wanted cleavage, so I went out and aquired some."

With the way he looks, he wasn't sure how his run for Mayor would go.

"The first 30 seconds they think, am I in a freakshow? Is there a camera behind me? What's going on here?" Rasmussen told NewsChannel 8. "And then we get down to dicussing whatever the issue is - city business or business or whatever - and they figure out this guy's different, but he knows what he's talking about."

It's Rasmussen's knowledge of the issues, and of the town, that won over so many voters. As one voter said, "Stu's very devoted to this town."

Rasmussen won by a hefty margin - 13 points. It really wasn't close.

"He wants to maintain the intergrity of Silverton," voter Gail Frassenei said. And she said she isn't sure Rasmussen would be elected anywhere else. "I think it's amazing a small town like this can be so open-minded, to elect someone that's made a life change."

"I'm prejudiced, but I think this is just about the coolest town on Earth," Rasmussen said, just before he broke down, a tear gently running through his eyeliner, and onto his cheek. He can't wait to take office in January. He said he's finally confident enough to be himself, as he runs his hometown, wearing his signature heels.

http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_110608_news_transgender_mayor.18a1f2fa7.htmlStu Rasmussen served two terms as the Mayor of Silverton in the 1990s. But he hadn't admitted to being transgender. He's... more