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Article: Trans-gender runs for mayor
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- The Topeka Capital-Journal
- Article date:
- September 6, 2009
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By Jessie L. Bonner
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NAMPA, Idaho -- About a block from a street concert in downtown
Nampa, Melissa Sue Robinson strolls with purpose into a trendy
coffee shop -- the unofficial liberal embassy of this sprawling
Republican stronghold in southwest Idaho.
Dressed in a cream-colored pantsuit, a political flier clutched
in one hand, a soft brown leather purse in the other, she orders a
mocha and takes a seat as a group of teenagers stare at her from
near the door.
The 58-year-old was born male and still carries the slightly
larger-than-an-average-woman build of Charles Staelens Jr., who
legally changed his name and underwent surgery in 1998 to become a
woman.
She also kept ...