Transgender

A transsexual man has sued the drug-treatment center in Camden where he worked, claiming that it discriminated against him when it fired him from a job that only a man is allowed to do: watching men urinate. El'Jai Devoureau of Deptford was born with female genitalia but says in his legal complaint that he has always considered himself male. Five years ago, Devoureau, 39, began counseling and male-hormone treatments. In 2009, he had sex-reassignment surgery. His driver's license, birth certificate and Social Security cards have all been reissued to reflect that he's a man. He said that managers at Camden's Urban Treatment Centers believed that he was a man when the drug-treatment center hired him in June to monitor men as they gave urine samples for drug tests.

A transgender employee hired to oversee urine tests administered to men has filed a discrimination lawsuit against a Camden drug treatment center that fired him after it confronted him about his gender last summer. El'Jai Devoureau, 39, said Urban Treatment Associates questioned him about his gender a day after he started working in the position, which had been open only to male candidates. "Is El'Jai a male? The employer says no, and El'Jai says he is," said Michael Silverman of the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund in New York, which filed the lawsuit Friday.

A transgender woman accused of fatally stabbing her boyfriend early yesterday in Point Breeze was once a co-defendant in a case with a transgender prostitute who allegedly killed a man at an Old City hotel last year, according to police, court records and other sources. Police said Alonzo Simmons, 29, fatally stabbed Angel Brown, 27, about 2:45 a.m. at the home they shared on Oakford Street near 21st. Simmons, who sources said lived as a woman, waited for police to arrive and directed them to a bed where Brown, her boyfriend, had a single stab wound to the chest, police said.

NEW YORK - Daniel Radcliffe looks forward to a tolerant world where young people grow up unaffected by differences in sexual orientation. For the last few years, the Harry Potter star has been doing his part to make that a reality with his work with the Trevor Project, the leading organization for suicide prevention efforts among gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered youths. For his contribution, Radcliffe is being honored with the organization's Hero Award at a ceremony in New York in June.

Nico Adamor is fighting a policy that's been in place longer than he's been alive. And though his opponent declared again just last month that it would not budge, Adamor, 28, says he's not quitting either. The opponent is SEPTA and the issue is the transit agency's use of M for male and F for female stickers on weekly and monthly passes. The stickers, in use since 1981, are meant to prevent riders from sharing passes, said spokeswoman Jerri Williams. But transgender activist Kathy Padilla said that doesn't make sense because "any two women or two men can share passes.

A Southwest Philadelphia man who police say is a transgender prostitute was ordered Tuesday to stand trial on murder and arson charges in the Oct. 30 death of a man at the Omni Hotel in Old City. Herman Burton, 23, was held for trial by Philadelphia Municipal Court Judge Joseph C. Waters after a homicide detective testified that Burton was seen entering the hotel on a surveillance camera about 2 a.m. Oct. 30 and leaving a short time before the fire alarm sounded. Firefighters were called to the Omni shortly before 11 a.m. Inside Room 812 they found a blaze - purposely set - and the body of Patrick Michael Brady, 49, to whom the room was registered.

Herman Burton, a transgender prostitute, was ordered yesterday to stand trial on murder, arson and related charges in the slaying of a Chester County businessman in a Center City hotel room in October. Burton, who identifies as a woman and goes by the name Peaches, walked into the preliminary hearing wearing a quizzical expression, a gray sweat suit under which enlarged breasts were visible, and tightly braided hair with tiny pigtails on either side. So violent and brutal are the facts involving the defendant's alleged beating and strangulation of Patrick Michael Brady, 49, that the attorneys on both sides agreed that Burton's police statement would not be read in open court and that the city medical examiner was not called to testify - both of which normally happen in murder hearings.

Jennifer Finney Boylan is at ease now in the living room of the Devon home where she spent her boyhood. She has not always been comfortable in this place. When she lived here as 13-year-old James Richard Boylan Jr. and had the whole top floor to herself, she did her homework with the dead bolt on the bedroom door, wearing the bra and sweater she kept hidden behind the room's faux wood paneling, and trusting she'd hear the stairs creak if anyone approached. Now a professor of creative writing at Maine's Colby College since 1988, Boylan, 52, is a visiting prof this semester at Ursinus in Collegeville.

Police have arrested a 22-year-old transgender prostitute in the killing of Patrick Michael Brady, the Chester County man who was strangled last weekend in his Old City hotel room. Brady had checked into the Omni Hotel at Fourth and Chestnut Streets on Friday night. In the early hours of Saturday morning, Brady, 49, let 22-year-old Herman Burton, who police said dresses and identifies as a woman, into his eighth-floor room. There, police said, a fight broke out between the two. "The only thing we know," Philadelphia Capt.