Douglas cross-dresser: Enzi's comments show hate and intolerance in state

Larry “Sissy” Goodwin said he doesn’t own a tutu, but the 70-year-old Douglas retiree and Vietnam veteran said he does wear petticoats.

“I guess people mistake that for a tutu,” said Goodwin, perhaps Wyoming’s most well-known cross-dresser, who prefers the term gender-enhanced male, or GEM.

Goodwin and the gay community believe U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi was referring to Sissy on Tuesday at Greybull High School when he said, “I know a guy that wears a tutu and goes to the bars on Friday night and is always surprised that he gets in fights. Well, he kind of asks for it a little bit. That’s the way he winds up with that kind of problem.”

Enzi later apologized for the statement, after the story went national and LGBT groups and the Wyoming Democratic Party criticized the Republican senator. Enzi said he was trying to argue that federal law can’t solve every problem and people need to be more civil.

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