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Theresa Sparks is the Executive Director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission and was a candidate for San Francisco Supervisor for District 6 in the November 2010 election. She is a former president of the San Francisco Police Commission and former CEO of Good Vibrations. She is also one of San Francisco's most famous transgender women and was a Grand Marshal in the 2008 San Francisco Pride Parade.〔() Smiley, Lauren. Transblazer, SF Weekly (October 21, 2009)Retrieved on November 18, 2009.〕 Sparks is also a member of the Emeritus Board of the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club, a Navy veteran and a trained engineer.〔(2007 Board of Directors ), Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club website. Retrieved on May 15, 2007. 〕〔Delgado, Ray. (Theresa Sparks: Transgender San Franciscan Makes History as Woman of the Year ), San Francisco Chronicle (April 4, 2003), pp. WB-3. Retrieved on May 13, 2007.〕〔Heredia, Christopher. (Transgender Woman Joins Rights Board: Appointment is a San Francisco First ), San Francisco Chronicle (February 3, 2001), pp. A-13. Retrieved on May 13, 2007.〕 She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Horizons Foundation, a community-based LGBT philanthropic organization. ==Early life== Theresa Sparks was born on April 8, 1949, in Kansas City, Kansas, where she grew up.〔〔Blue, Violet. (Happy Birthday, Mom! ), tinynibbles.com (April 8, 2007). Retrieved on May 15, 2007.〕〔Selna, Robert; Sward, Susan; Vega, Cecilia M. (Renne Quits Police Commission ), San Francisco Chronicle (May 11, 2007), pp. B-9. Retrieved on May 13, 2007.〕〔Vega, Cecilia M. (Transgender Pioneer Rises to Powerful Spot ), San Francisco Chronicle (May 12, 2007), pp. A-1. Retrieved on May 13, 2007.〕〔〔Multiple sources (Delgado; Selna, Sward, Vega; and Vega) corroborate Sparks' birth year as 1949. The San Francisco Chronicle article by Heretia, however, mistakenly attributes Sparks' birth in 1950 or 1951.〕 Assigned male at birth, Sparks expressed her gender identity at an early age by wearing women's clothing, though she later resisted these impulses in adolescence.〔 Sparks went to Kansas State University and graduated with a degree in engineering.〔 She served in the United States Navy. Later she managed several waste management and recycling companies and patented two recycling techniques.〔 She married her first wife in 1971 and together they had three children: two sons and a daughter. After nine years of marriage, Sparks finally revealed to her wife her desire to live as a woman. They separated shortly after and eventually divorced. Sparks remarried, but that marriage also ended in divorce.〔 Sparks underwent "intense therapy and an electric shock treatment" to try to suppress her femininity, before deciding at last to embrace her gender identity. "It's an unusual condition, but it's not unnatural," she said later. "You discover that the only way to live with it is to transition physically so your physical appearance matches how you feel about yourself."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Theresa Sparks」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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