Transgendered Hurricane Evacuee Arrested For Using Woman's Shower

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Transgendered Hurricane Evacuee Arrested For Using Woman's Shower

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A 20-year-old transgendered Hurricane Katrina evacuee remained in the Brazos County Jail on Thursday, five days after being arrested for showering inside a women's bathroom at Reed Arena.

Arpollo Vicks of New Orleans and her 16-year-old cousin were arrested Sunday night for criminal trespass after Texas A&M University Police noticed the two exiting a women's shower facility at the shelter. The two were born male but live as women and consider themselves female, Vicks said Thursday in an interview from the jail.

They are the only people who have been arrested at the local shelters since the first one opened Aug. 31, shelter officials said.

According to police who were providing security at the Reed Arena shelter, a woman complained Sunday night that several males were inside the women's shower facility.

Corps of Cadets Commandant John Van Alstyne, who is in charge of the shelter, was notified and told police that he earlier had warned Vicks and the teenager not to shower inside the women's facility.

"I know two males went into the women's rest room," Van Alstyne said Thursday. "It was something we considered inappropriate."

He declined to comment further.

http://www.theeagle.com/stories/090905/local_20050909047.php

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GOPisEvil

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Mon Sep-12-05 07:12 AM
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1. Ah yes...home of my alma mater...always a bastion of free thinking.

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Zuni

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Mon Sep-12-05 07:21 AM
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2. ...

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Deja Q

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Mon Sep-12-05 07:38 AM
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3. What if he went to pee in a mens' room?

Arrested for not going in the womens' room?

Soliciting sex?

What other stereotypes can we throw in here? :D

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Shell Beau

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Mon Sep-12-05 08:33 AM
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4. Hmmm....

I just don't know what to say. They probably shouldn't have been arrested, but if other females were uncomfortable with the situation... I just don't know. This one is tricky!

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Squatch

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Mon Sep-12-05 08:36 AM
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5. Tricky? Hmm...the conventions are pretty straightforward.

If you have an innie, you go into the women's restroom. If you have an outie, you go into the men's restroom.

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Shell Beau

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Mon Sep-12-05 08:40 AM
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6. I know, I know BUT

Had they had the sex change, it would be a different story. The surgery makes all of the difference. They feel and live as women, yet aren't fully there yet.

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bertha katzenengel

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Mon Sep-12-05 08:42 AM
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7. "criminal trespass" - does anyone know if

this class B misdemeanor warrants five days in jail, being held in isolation, and $6,000 bail?

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