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olice officials in Calgary, Alberta, are
pleased that the department has responded
favorably to an employees decision to change
from male to female.
The individual began coming to work
dressed as a wo­
man about six
months ago and
will
undergo
sex-reassignment
surgery in another
six months or so.
Human
Re­
sources
Deputy
Chief Jack Beaton
told local media:
“We’re
quite
proud she stayed
here and wanted
to go through the
transition here— that tells us the
police service is on the right path. We have a
positive workplace policy and this is an issue of
diversity.”
The transsexual, who does not want to be
identified in the media, said: “It’s been a fairly
easy transition. It seems to he the safest place to
be.”
The $5,440 operation will he paid for by the
provincial health care program.
P
new Canadian Labour Congress campaign
will promote tolerance in the workplace.
About $10,200 will be spent on posters and but­
tons.
One stereotype-busting poster shows seven
people with the caption "We’ll give you a $3 bill
if you can spot who is gay in this picture.” The
correct answer is “all of them.”
The material will be circulated among the
CLC’s 85 affiliates and 2.2 million members.
“Success is when being gay is no longer cause
for distinction, like when (Member of Parlia­
ment] Svend Robinson is described simply as an
NDP [New Democratic Party] politician and
not ‘a gay MP,’ ’’ said C LC Secretary-Treasurer
Nancy Riche.
A
FRANCE
rench lesbian tennis pro Amelie Mauresmo,
20, won the Sydney International tennis
tournament Jan. 15, defeating Mary Pierce,
Lindsay Davenport and Martina Hingis.
Mauresmo dedicated her victory to her lover
and coach, Sylvie Bourdon.
“When you are happy in your life, you do
your job better. I think she makes me feel good
and we have a great relationship and she brings
me a lot of confidence,” Mauresmo said. “1 did­
F
n’t have as much in 1998, but bit by bit it is
coming and I am getting stronger in my mind,
and on the court it helps a lot.”
Last year during the Australian Open, both
Davenport and Hingis angered Mauresmo with
their remarks to reporters.
Davenport said: “A couple of times I thought
I was playing a guy, the girl was hitting it so
hard. She’s so strong in those shoulders. She
hits the hall, you know, not like any other
girl. She hits it so hard and with so much
topspin. Women’s tennis is not usually
played like th at.... T he shoulders looked
huge. I think that they must have grown.”
A t a German-language press confer­
ence, Hingis said: “She is half man.”
KENYA
he South African Press Agency reported
on Jan. 7 that a court in western Kenya
allowed a woman to divorce her wife due to
“cruelty and violence.”
T he report explained that among the Kisii
people of Kenya’s western highlands, widows
who have never birthed a son and are too old to
reproduce can marry a younger woman who is
then expected to get pregnant and produce a
male heir for the older woman. Kisii women
have no inheritance rights.
Nyoero Ongori married Mary Orang’o eight
years ago.
“She beat me up, heat my daughters and
never brought a son to the house," Ongori told
the court.
T
NETHERLANDS
. ueen Beatrix has knighted Henk Krol, the
founder of the Dutch gay newspaper De
Gay Krant, on the
occasion of the publi­
cation’s 20th anni­
versary.
Meanwhile,
in
conjunction with its
400th issue, the pub­
lication
switched
from newspaper to
magazine
format,
upgraded the quality
of the paper on
which it is printed,
and
added more
Henk Krol
color.
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