Transvestite Sues Beauty School over Rejection

Yahoo! ^ | Thu Aug 8,10:18 AM ET | Reuters

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A transvestite sued a Los Angeles beauty school, claiming his application was rejected when school officials realized he was not a woman.

The lawsuit, brought Wednesday by a plaintiff known only as "Sandy," is the first of its kind under a 1979 city ordinance that prohibits businesses from discrimination based on sexual orientation, "Sandy's" attorney, Gloria Allred, told Reuters.

"Sandy is not required to appear as a man because she is a man or has male genitalia," said Allred, a high-profile Los Angeles lawyer.

When he enrolled last month at the Marinello School of Beauty in Los Angeles, Sandy was perceived to be a woman, Allred said.

After passing a test and paying a $100 fee, he was accepted to the school and told to report for classes in August. "Sandy was very happy, but her happiness did not last very long," Allred said, referring to her client as a woman. "It had been her dream to attend beauty school."

Two hours later, after learning from Sandy's passport that she was legally a man, school officials called to say that she would not be permitted to attend classes because of concerns over which restroom he would use at school, Allred said.

Sandy offered to use the restroom of the school's choice or to go off campus to answer nature's call but the school refused the offer, Allred said.

"I have never ever fought for anything in my life but now it is time to fight for my rights," Sandy told reporters at a news conference on Wednesday.

School officials had no comment on the lawsuit.

The Los Angeles ordinance that Allred cited in the lawsuit defines sexual orientation not by physiology, but as "a self image not associated with one's biological maleness or one's biological femaleness."

Sandy, who surprised her friends by coming out as a man, told Reuters that his dream is to open his own salon.

"I want to make people look nice and look good and I want to make people happy," he said.

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The Los Angeles ordinance that Allred cited in the lawsuit defines sexual orientation not by physiology, but as "a self image not associated with one's biological maleness or one's biological femaleness."

Eh, what? Come again?

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Did you see last years Graduation Parade?

MY BUT DOESN'T THEIR HAIR LOOK GOOD!

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Here she is, Miss America:

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Whoooooooooof.

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Oh, for pete's sake...just designate a bathroom called "OTHER" and get it over with!

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Oh, for pete's sake...just designate a bathroom called "OTHER" and get it over with!

It is funny how these things always break over what bathroom the "other's" going to use. Is a controversy over where you're going to squat really worth litigation?

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"Sandy is not required to appear as a man because she is a man or has male genitalia," said Allred, a high-profile Los Angeles lawyer.

And this one also deserves a "say what? come again?"

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Hee hee hee.

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Beauty School Drop-Out

Your story sad to tell
A teenage ne'er do well
Most mixed up non-delinquent on the block

your futures so unclear now
what's left of your career now
can't even get a trade in on your smile
beauty school dropout
no graduation day for you
beauty school dropout
missed your mid-terms and flunked shampoo
well at least you could have taken time,
to wash and clean your clothes up
after spending all that dough,
to have the doctor fix your nose up

better get movin
why keep your feeble hopes alive
what are you provin
you've got the dream but not the drive

if you go for your diploma you could join the steno pool
turn in your teasin' comb and go back to high school

beauty school dropout
hanging around the corner store
beauty school dropout
it's about time you knew the score

well they couldn't teach you anything
you think you're such a looker
but no customer will go to you
unless she was a hooker

baby don't sweat it
you're not cut out to hold a job
better forget it
who wants their hair done by a slob

now your bangs are curled your lashes twirled,
but still the world is cruel
wipe off that angel face and go back to high school

baby don't blow it
don't put my good advice to shame
baby you know it
even dear Abby'd say the same

now I've called the shot,
get off the pot, I really gotta fly
gotta be going to that malt shop in the sky

beauty school dropout (beauty school dropout)
go back to high school
beauty school dropout (beauty school dropout)
go back to high school
beauty school dropout (beauty school dropout)
go back to high school

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You, too.

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"Sandy's" attorney, Gloria Allred

There's half the problem, right there...

[xsmommy]

i just don't even want to think about SANDY parading around in the devil's panties.....

[NeoCaveman]

"Sandy's" attorney, Gloria Allred
There's half the problem, right there...

Think she may have a vested interest in this case?

[mountaineer]

Quien es mas macho, Sandy o Gloria Allred?

Attorney Gloria Allred, right, holds the hand of a man who self-identifies as a female, according Allred, and goes by the name "Sandy," during a news conference, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2002, in Los Angeles. A beauty school was sued Wednesday for discrimination for allegedly refusing to accept "Sandy," a male student who looks like a woman. The Marinello Schools of Beauty violated city law when it refused to allow "Sandy" to register, Allred alleged. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

[NeoCaveman]

Quien es mas macho, Sandy o Gloria Allred?

They both have those man-hands

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That looks like Grampa Al Lewis in drag!!!!

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i just don't even want to think about SANDY parading around in the devil's panties.....

The strap wouldn't provide adequate reverse tuckage support, one would imagine . . .

[Joe Hadenuf]

Actually, the freak looks better than Allred......

[mhking]

Actually, the freak looks better than Allred......

You beat me to it - and that's the truly scary part...

[xsmommy]

your descriptive language conjures a horrific image, sweety pie....