Transvestite MP barred from little girls' room

A SPAT in the ladies' loo between a former drag queen and a retired showgirl is causing a political stir in the Italian parliament.

A SPAT in the ladies' loo between a former drag queen and a retired showgirl is causing a political stir in the Italian parliament.

Transvestite MP Vladimiro Guadango - a cross-dressing communist who prefers to be known as Luxuria - was bullied out of the women's toilets by right-wing political rival Elisabetta Gardini, a former TV star and member of Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party.

"You're a man and you can't use the women's toilet," Ms Gardini cried when she saw Luxuria in the loo during a parliamentary break on Friday.

Luxuria - registered as a parliamentarian under his male birth name - said he considered himself female and had been using the women's toilet without complaints since his election six months ago.

Ms Gardini insisted that if Luxuria wanted to use the women's toilet, he should "cut off his penis", saying she felt "raped" by the incident.