Top model loses contract after revelation they're transgender

[natina]

April Ashley, Teri Toye both lost their careers when they where outed.
It was illegal to Masquerade (cross dress). it was a misdemeanors an arrestable offense.

There was also Caroline “Tula” Cossey, who was outed and lost there career.

[natina]

I saw this model Tracy doing makeup on customers in a mall

[Skye]

not necessarily transphobic, but then she lied. if she can lie/deceive about this, then she can lie/deceive about anything else.

trustworthiness, imho, is the issue here.

On dating sites, I don't disclose that I'm trans publicly, on my profile, and only disclose it to people I talk to IF we get to a point that it becomes important.
See, what cisgendered people don't understand is us withholding that we're trans isn't an issue of trust - it's an issue of safety, and potentially of life and death.
You could argue anything is, really, but in a time where even now, people are being murdered exclusively because they're trans, whatever a person had
to do forty years ago, that's excusable. Any CIS person who says otherwise should be subjected to what we live through, on a normal basis. No, cis people
wouldn't understand, either way - you don't truly understand how terrifying life can be when you're a target for murder just for being different.

Not informing the world she was transgender is something that was her right - and definitely not something that they needed to know, or was necessary for them
to know, and the only people who would ever say that she should have announced it are people who think her being transgender matters - and those are people
who simply don't see transgender people as the gender/sex they identify as.

[natina]

Sir Lady Java- Trans Civil Rights Warrior

Sir Lady Java (1943–) performer, activist
Originally from New Orleans, Sir Lady Java had been working in Los Angeles for two years in 1967, and was then performing and waiting at the Redd Foxx Club. She was billed as "The Prettiest Man on Earth". It was said that she had dated Redd Foxx and Sammy Davis Jr.


The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) decided to enforce their Rule 9, whereby it was illegal for performers to impersonate by means of costume or dress a member of the opposite sex unless they had a special permit issued by the LA Board of Police Commissioners. They told the club owner that he would lose his license if Lady Java continued to perform, and her act was dropped. She teamed with the American Civil Liberties Union which challenged the rule as unconstitutional. Meanwhile Lady Java protested outside the club that the rule deprived her of her livelihood, and was favorably reported in the LA Advocate (later The Advocate) and Jet Magazine.

The legal challenge was thwarted in that only a club owner could file the appeal: the Redd Foxx Club owner would not, nor would any other club owner. However in 1969 another club owner did appeal the LAPD rules that prevented him from showing movies on the grounds that the interpretations of the rules were arbitrary and shifting. The California Supreme Court agreed and struck down the movie license rules. The LAPD Commission realized that all such rules could be challenged, and quietly informed the club owners that drag shows were now permitted.

In August 1971, Lady Java was guest of honor at the Alpha Chapter (Los Angeles) of the Full Personality Expression (FPE) showing that the chapter was more open-minded than FPE's national spokesperson, Virginia Prince.

Lady Java had a part, on effect playing herself, in the 1976 film, The Human Tornado. She is kidnapped and then rescued.


http://transgriot.blogspot.ca/2010/1...il-rights.html

That was a great read Natina, thanks!

[Fitzcarraldo]

There was also Caroline “Tula” Cossey, who was outed and lost there career.

She posed in Playboy after being outed, though.

[4star4]

Hi beautiful....