Apparently it’s okay to note in media reports about her alleged bomb plot that Idaho’s is a MTF transgender suspect, because the whole reason she stands accused of “rigging what appeared to be four pipe bombs to a propane tank at her home, torching her car then running naked along a rural highway” is because of her gender identity.
Carlson has been feuding with the cops since 2007, when a traffic citation was issued that included her birth name Daniel Carlson (listed as “also known as”), long after her 1980 gender reassignment operation. Since then, “Carlson has been jailed at least four times for investigation of failure to appear for court-ordered community service, driving without a license and other allegations. Among other things, she objected to being held in a cell by herself, rather than in a housing unit for female prisoners, as she had requested.”
It’s unclear why Carlson rigged the pipe bombs — or, more accurately, the fake bombs made of pipes that were made to look like explosives attached to her trailer home. Police received a call about a naked woman running on the road carrying what looked to be a pipe bomb. It wasn’t. It was just a regular pipe, stuffed with legal documents. She’s being held on $50,000 bond.
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The Milkman
Oh. Oh dear. Oh honey, no.
Mike L.
Wow poor woman, and her friend (that was messed up about her -accidnetally? – burning his trailer).
She’s abviously a tortured soul and it didn’t help that after 30 years since her transition the police booked her under her male birthname, she just lost it.
Mike L.
@The Milkman: She needed a sassy gay friend XD
This should be made unto some new saying. “Girl you needed a sassy gay friend,” Or “where is a sassy gay friend when you need one.”
LOL I just like that saying XD Of course I’m not a sassy gay friend but do give out non-fashion related advice 🙂
The Milkman
That said, it’s kinda nice that the report used appropriate pronouns and was generally respectful regarding the TG issue.
I’m reminded of Betty Butterfield talking about people who have “Just about had it… and I know that feelin’.” Looks like Katherine had just about had it.
Jadis
Sometimes I feel like doing stuff like that too.
William
Yikes!
Lynn
@Mike L.
Yes, she has been leading a horrible existence. In a 2008 news article, the sheriff was quoted: ““This is a very conservative old-fashioned community, that’s just the way it is. This is rural, small town Idaho. This is new to us.” And he said this despite her living there for many years – I’m sure she has been talked about by everyone in the county.
I know that the KIVI-TV article made the claim, but I’m not sure that she was actually booked under her male name. She had a legal name change decades before. However, she once applied for a protection order and used her male name, and thus it appears in all the county records as an alias. The police citation mentioned her male name as an AKA in addition to her real name.
But the quality of her life is very bad. She lives on $1000 per month Social Security, and leaves her trailer about once every 10 days. She has emphysema, a heart condition, and depression. And who wouldn’t be depressed in that situation?
http://articles.sfgate.com/2008-12-21/news/17132463_1_transgender-ticket-rural
Mike L.
@Lynn: Wow didn’t know all of that, poor girl. I really don’t know what else to say, what happened didn’t help her situation but as I said and as evidenced by the info you gave she really just about reached her breaking point w how life has not been good to her.
I’m gonna pray for God to keep her in his arms, she really just needed love is my guess. Unfortunately transfolk do tend to get the shorter end of the stick when it comes to what happens to their lifes when they come out trans, having even less protections from the gov than LGB’s have in terms of work and housing among many other things.
Carpet Extractor ·
i do not want to live exactly on a trailer home but i think it is interesting to live on it though ::
Isopropyl Alcohol
i do not like trailer homes because it is not sturdy enough specially when the weather goes bad :’*