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Some of the pronoun usage in the early parts of her life is a bit confusing and somewhat anachronistic, because at the time she lived as a man. For example, saying "She married her first wife in 1971..." might imply that it was a same-gender marriage, but at the time it wasn't seen as such. I can see that using "he" might be controversial, so maybe it'd be better just to avoid pronouns where ambiguous. -- Delirium 05:22, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
Article | Source | Article Date | Age in Article | Year of Birth | Notes |
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Transgender Pioneer Rises to Powerful Spot | San Francisco Chronicle | May 12, 2007 | 58 | 1948-1949 | |
Renne quits Police Commission | San Francisco Chronicle | May 11, 2007 | 55 (in 2004) | 1948-1949 | |
Vote is on for SF Pride Marshals | Bay Area Reporter | March 1, 2007 | 57 | 1949-1950 | |
Transgender San Franciscan makes history as Woman of the Year | San Francisco Chronicle | April 4, 2003 | 53 | 1949-1950 | |
Transgender Woman Joins Rights Board | San Francisco Chronicle | February 3, 2001 | 50 | 1950-1951 | I assume this article is wrong because the others agree her birth year is 1949. |
Queerudite 07:57, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
I'd like to see this article cleaned up to use one term, either "transsexual" or "transgender", consistently. The terms have distinct meanings and it's confusing when articles like this one use them interchangeably. I do not know which term (if either one!) Ms. Sparks uses to describe herself, so I'm not making these edits, but I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to find an RS to confirm one or the other. SparsityProblem ( talk) 21:52, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
The indroduction claims she that she's a veteran of the Vietnam war. In the text its claimed that she served in the military during the war and in the source she's an "Army vet". I'll change the article to reflect the source. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.243.130.73 ( talk) 11:18, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
It says Sparks was "assigned male at birth." Honest English would say that Sparks was born a boy, but this is obviously not an honest article, much less an encyclopedic one. The article's authors or gatekeepers (same difference) also refuse to give Sparks' birth name. Thus, rather than give an honest accounting of Sparks' life, they are trying to hide it. 24.90.190.96 ( talk) 05:19, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
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