The Susan and Donna Stanton Divorce
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One local story that really seemed to grip people (be it in a positive way or a negative way) is the story of former Largo City Manager Steve Stanton. Actually, Steve Stanton is now Susan Stanton.
In February of 2007, Stanton made public his desire to get a sex change. Long story short, he was eventually released from his job as City Manager in Largo, FL and moved out of his marital home. Although he has only received hormone therapy inn preparation for the sex change, he nonetheless has already changed his name and appearance.
Most media outlets refer to Steve as “she” and “Susan”. I have a harder time seeing the totality of the transition.
Anyway, local tongues have something to wag about again. Stanton’s wife Donna has filed for divorce. Donna is asking for an equitable distribution of marital assets, child support and alimony. Actually, she filed back in February, a year after her huysband went public.
Stanton is still out of work at this point in time, though he has applied for more than 100 positions in city management. Although he was short-listed for the City Manager job in Sarasota, FL he did not get the job. Right now he is on the short list for city manager jobs in Iowa City, Iowa, and Brooklyn Park, Minn.
I’m sure I will receive feedback and comments attacking my unwillingness to refer to Stanton as “she”. Believe me, I have no ill intentions. It is just a gender issue I am not as liberal about as I might be on other social issues.
I agree with the notion that Steve is still Steve. JMO, but you are what you were born with. Just because you have plastic surgery to look like someone else doesn’t make you that person. Same with taking hormones and having “reassignment” surgery doesnt make you someone else. For example, the “man” that is pregnant. Well, to be pregnant you have to have the parts and “he/she” still does. So it’s not really a man pregnant. Of course this is JMO.
One opinion is as valid as the next, which is the beauty of fact vs. opinion.
I happen to agree with you on the pregnant man issue. When Thomas Beatie stopped taking male hormones in order to bring on the reproductive cycle, her body went right back into full female mode. No man can do that. She can surgically remove her breast tissue and grow a sparse beard, but she is still a woman.