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Transwoman makes courtroom history

Fri 7 Jan 2011 In: International News

Victoria Kolakowski History has been made in a California courtroom, where a trans person has been sworn in as a trial judge for the first time ever in the US. Victoria Kolakowski is a trans campaigner, who has over 20 years of legal and judicial experience, She took the oath in front of her wife and parents at a special session of the Superior Court of California. Dot429.com reports she said before the ceremony, "It's been very hard as a transgender person ... We're a community that's chronically under- and unemployed and I've encountered that sort of discrimination in the past, but we're making so much more progress now. In terms of my career, I think part of it is hard work and perseverance, and part of it is good luck." California state Senator Ellen Corbett introduced her as "a friend, a colleague, a trailblazer," saying, "as we celebrate this new decade we mark our own start and our own first….We all know the tremendous hurdles that [she] and the transgender community have overcome."    

Credit: GayNZ.com Daily News staff

First published: Friday, 7th January 2011 - 12:40pm

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