Advocates Hope Transgender Identity Is Not a Defining One

Dan82 · Oct 25, 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/25/us/politics/25transgender.html?_r=1

Theresa Sparks, a candidate for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, is running on what some might see as a conservative platform: she is pro-development and anti-loitering, pro-police and anti-grime. She has been endorsed by the mayor, the city’s firefighters’ union and the county deputy sheriff’s association.

But that is not what sets Ms. Sparks apart; it is her past. Until a decade ago, Ms. Sparks was a man, before a gender reassignment surgery. And while her sex may have changed, her politics did not.

“This district really needs someone with a strong business background, a strong economic background and a really wide diversity of experience,” said Ms. Sparks, who is an experienced engineer, a United States Navy veteran and the former chief executive of Good Vibrations, a sex toy company. “And I’m really the only person who has that in this race...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/25/us/politics/25transgender.html?_r=1
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Advocates Hope Transgender Identity Is Not a Defining One

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