"I want to make people look nice and look good and I want to make people happy," he said.
Pronoun hell.
There's a children's book in there somewhere..
Already done.
"I never had that problem myself."
Posted on 08/09/2002 7:45:24 AM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost
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.
She/he could move to Subic Bay and make a mint . . .
"...just like me," s/he said.
There's a children's book in there somewhere...
How does Allred go about finding a jury of her/his peers?? Pun intended.
"I want to make people look nice and look good and I want to make people happy," he said.
Pronoun hell.
There's a children's book in there somewhere..
Already done.
"I never had that problem myself."
But not that I know or anything... LOL
After Oxford, and a Harkness Fellowship in the United States, Morris spent ten years as a foreign correspondent for the London Times and The Guardian, an experience that led to Morris's historical coverage of the 1953 Everest expedition, and to numerous subsequent ventures to cover wars, revolutions, trials, elections, and political crises on every continent. In 1961, Morris left newspaper work to write books, and at one time or another lived in America, Venice, the French Alps, Egypt, Spain, and Wales, where Jan Morris is now settled.Morris is the recipient of the George Polk Memorial Award for Journalism in America for 1961 and the Heinemann Award of the Royal Society of Literature in England for the same year.
In 1972, James Morris became Jan Morris; Farewell the Trumpets is the last of her works to appear under her original name.
-- Farewell the Trumpets, jacket blurb.
I'm fully with the school "authorities" on this one! My gosh! Only in America can a non-citien from some place like "IWANNABEAGIRLASTAN" hire a "home-grown" idiot to sue a host national for damaging his/her self respect by insisting they let the school know which facility they will be using! (Let's not even get into the question of whether it's proper to use the "I have to do the #1 or #2 when she/he raises her hand to go!)
If he/she didn't want to answer the gender question...he/she could have answered in a Bill Clinton sort of way... "It depenends on what the definition of "His" is?
"Sandy was very happy, but her happiness did not last very long. Her penis grew cramped tucked as it was in her undies."
The weirdest part of that story: Jan remains married to the woman who married James. Which prompts a number of questions such as "Did they have a second honeymoon?" ... and others too dreadful to contemplate.
What is the big deal about a man that wants what was traditionally a woman's job?
Nothing, but be prepared to have everyone on the planet assume you're light in the loafers.
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