feelings that he was in a guy's body but when he was born he was like a girl. and i was really shocked, but then i was just like, i kind of got over it. i don't know how, but i got over it. he was really serious. my mom was crying. >> culminating in him coming in my study and saying, "can i see a picture of susan?" i said are you sure? and he said yeah. he looked at the pictures and he said, geez, that doesn't look like you. wow, you're -- you're pretty. >> we must have gotten 1,000 e-mails. he lied to the commission, he needs to be fired. none of it having anything to do with being transsexual, but clearly the underlying reason was that. >> i called commissioners and just said, you know, what do you think of this news? basically, what they had said is they supported him personally. >> this is a special city commission meeting of february 27th, 2007. we are here to discuss the city manager's employment contract. >> you have a serious responsibility here tonight to