Anderson's cancels band with transgender singer

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Lesley Wright and Peter Corbett

The Arizona Republic

SCOTTSDALE - A Scottsdale nightclub embroiled in controversy over accusations of transgender discrimination has canceled a concert planned for Monday that would have featured a transgender singer.

Anderson's Fifth Estate was set to stage Psychic TV and lead singer Genesis P-Orridge, who reportedly had breast-enlargement surgery on Valentine's Day 2003 with his wife, Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge.

But club owner Tom Anderson on Friday canceled the performance, saying that the outside promoter who booked the band had not informed him that it included a transgender front-person.

Anderson said he had planned to let the concert proceed but then received word that transgender advocates planned to picket the event and crash the concert.

"After looking at the potential for disruption and after consulting with my attorney, Chuck Kelhoffer, I felt I had no choice but to pull the plug on the event," Anderson said.

Psychic TV and its predecessor, Throbbing Gristle, are known for over-the-edge experimental, psychedelic and industrial music. Transgender patrons of Anderson's, 6820 E. Fifth Ave., would have gotten a bathroom of their own for one night if the concert had proceeded.

The Arizona Attorney General's Office is investigating a civil-rights complaint from Michele deLaFreniere that Anderson discriminated against her and other transgender patrons when he banned them from the downtown Scottsdale club.

Anderson said he acted after a group of transgender patrons created a stir when they used the women's bathroom.

Women complained and threatened to take their business elsewhere, Anderson said.

For Monday's show, Anderson's was to have had a transgender bathroom as well as one for women and men.

The nightclub could not always do that because the three bathrooms are not large enough, Anderson said, adding that one has just a single stall.

He declined to voluntarily attend a meeting earlier this month at the Attorney General's Office to answer questions about the reputed discrimination, saying he would respond only if he were issued a subpoena.

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so put in more toilets for pity's sake!

sheesh, do I have to think of everything? :

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

Okay, as someone who has actually been to a Psychic TV show I can tell that the fans are not transgendered people but middle aged male musos stroking their beards. The problem would be the line for the men's room would be too long.

I don't Genesis P-Orridge is technically transgendered, as much as he is an it. I assume it gets its own bathroom, as the performer.

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