With a hat-tip to the mighty OrbusMax, this Nair-y drama can't be ignored. On the one hand, your heart goes out even to a self-proclaimed transgendered victim of the Katrina tropical storm to strike New Orleans. Everyone is in the same, tippy boat, and those with complicated self-identities may indeed face additional issues.

So at first blush, I suppose it would be easy to condemn the authorities who imposed certain consequences upon one Arpollo Vicks, a.k.a. Sharli'e Dominique, for showering in a women's facility at Texas A&M University in Brazos County, Texas, upon evacuation from N'Awlins. Sharli'e "was born male but lives as a woman," meaning, according to the P.C. newspaper code - Sharli'e is a pre-op trannie....the male plumbing still holds, at the present time.

Salud, lawmen - and GodBlessTexas. What plays in the Big Easy, don't always go down so easy elsewhere. (S)he was released after five days imprisonment, for lack of criminal intent, such as lurking. Right-o. If you're not ACTUALLY female, ya better go to the facility dicatated by your real-life plumbing. That's awfully old-fashioned, I know, but them damned literalists are just all about.

And that could be the real lesson here from Back East RedNeckVille, even tho heedless transgression is the new norm advocated by some, out West.

TECHNORATI TAGS: TRANSSEXUAL, NEW ORLEANS, EVACUEE

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Posted by Matt Rosenberg at September 12, 2005 10:14 PM