blogs.HoustonPress.com – By Olivia Flores Alvarez in Spaced City
The nominees for Grand Marshal of the Pride Parade were announced recently and Houston Police Officer Julia Christina Oliver is among the women named. That couldn’t have happened two years ago when Oliver was still a male.
In 2006, Oliver, who had been on the force for more than 25 years, was beginning to make the transition from male to female and had just started hormone therapy. She had plans to tell her superiors, of course, but not just yet.
Those plans were put on fast forward when someone tried to blackmail her.