[Zakeet]

Reva Iman, 42, a transgender homeless woman, at her provided home
in Atlanta on Thursday, March 19, 2009. Transgender homeless are
having difficulty finding shelter in the city.

Reva Iman is tall and busty with arms full of jingling bracelets and broad shoulders that betray her birth gender. She said she began living and working on the street after being shut out of jobs when she first came to Atlanta.

"The street life of escorting and prostitution, that became my main line of survival," said Iman, who avoided shelters that demanded she dress "like a man" to spend the night.

"You can't be yourself," she said.

[The KG9 Kid]

I'm sorry I clicked this thread.

[ClearCase_guy]

Will someone please post a picture of Helen Thomas? I need to rinse my eyes with something less caustic.

[al baby]

[Malsua]

[Soothesayer]

It also doesn’t help that they are not treated as mentally ill but what can we expect when the inmates are running the asylum.

[ronnyquest]

Er, what?

[LonePalm]

Whow! This is a HUGE problem.

I expect that there are at least two, maybe three dozen of these people nationwide.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Veto!]

Thing is, if he/she had that expensive surgery, some government agency probably paid for it. And now she/he is homeless? After figuring out how to work the system for thousands? I don’t understand.

A lot I don’t understand. How incomprehensible this transgender stuff is. Imagine having the main focus of your life your plumbing.

[JoJo Gunn]

Agenda driven “journalists” have quotas to make, ya know.

[nina0113]

Another charity off MY list.

[isom35]

he/she went for the jay leno chin.

[WOBBLY BOB]

can she/he still wear the tiara in the shelter?

[central_va]

In the old days a democrapic President meant no homeless stories. Times have changed I guess.

[bk1000]

“...biological male transitioning into a female...”

One can not change one’s sex. One may simply alter one’s appearance. In spite of the appearance, this creature is and will always be, male.

[freedomlover]

[Recovering Hermit]

Yikes!

It looks like the doctor may have attached a breast in the wrong place.

[noblejones]

And as always in “journalism,” activist translates to assh*le.

[Mac from Cleveland]

What’s she doing in Atlanta? I thought she was in Europe......

[yazoo]

Jeese, finally this major social problem gets the attention it deserves. It’s something I’ve been worried about forever. I lay awake nights wondering where all the homeless transgendered people are sleeping.

[Patriotic1]

If s/he comes in looking, dressing and talking like a woman, how would they know the difference? Reva should have shut ‘her’ mouth and went to the women’s area. Or perhaps whatever the drivers license said. The difficult point is that this person is in the ‘transitioning’ stage, meaning... well, it could mean a lot of things.