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The AJC’s Christian Boone today brings us the story of Vandy Beth Glenn, a transgendered woman who three years ago was fired from her state Capitol editing job. Why exactly? Well, her higher-ups feared she might be “extremely harmful to work operations” and make state lawmakers uneasy and

Glenn, who was born Glenn Morrison, filed a federal suit against her former employers to get her old job back.

Here are some choice quotes from the deposition of Georgia Legislative Counsel Sewell Brumby, who was Glenn’s boss at the Capitol:

“It makes me think about things I don’t like to think about, particularly at work … I think it’s unsettling to think of someone dressed in women’s clothing with male sexual organs inside that clothing,” said Brumby, in a deposition taken May 11th in U.S. District Court in Atlanta. [...]

“I think some members of the legislature would view that taking place in our office as perhaps immoral, perhaps unnatural, and perhaps, if you will, liberal or ultra-liberal,” [Brumby] said.

Now on that last quote Brumby does have a point. The Georgia Capitol, after all, is a beacon of morality. No one’s ever raised flag about anything scandalous allegedly happening at the Gold Dome. Nope. Never. Check out Boone’s entire profile. UPDATE: Southern Voice has done an excellent job covering the story since it broke. Matt Schafer has a thorough article here.

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Last week, we pointed to an AJC story recounting a funny/strange Atlanta Police Department report detailing the arrests of several alleged transgender prostitutes in Midtown.

The report uses the words “booty shorts,” “Lady of the Night,” and “transvestite” to describe those arrested.

According to Southern Voice, the report caught the attention of the Atlanta Police Department’s LGBT liason Officer D. Harris, who will re-double her effort to remind APD personnel not to use pejoratives when describing transgendered people.

Incidentally, our post about the AJC story was titled “Booty-short wearing tranny.”

The post’s author, Mara Shalhoup, says the title is an ironic reference to the language used in the AJC story and the police report.

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