A Knoxville firefighter claims she's being discriminated against because she used to be a man.
Fire Capt. Jamie Faucon has filed a grievance against Knoxville Fire Chief Carlos Perez and her supervisor, Mark Foulkes.
She accuses them of depriving her of a take-home car, of reassigning her and cutting out her overtime because she is a transgendered firefighter.
Faucon also says in her grievance Foulkes used incorrect gender terms when referring to her in conversations.
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On the one hand, I feel horrible for these people who are so psychologically botched-up that they think they should get a sex-change operation. The other hand wants to scream, "Freak!" Both hands are correct, of course, but that's no reason to give these (wo)men a legal cause of action because others don't want to be around them. I feel bad for people with strong body odor, too, but I don't want to work next to them.
I love that last paragraph, incidentally. The cat rarely gets my tongue, but I gotta believe I wouldn't know how to address the she-man.
