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Enza Anderson is a popular transgendered woman living in Toronto, Canada. She is probably best known for her participation in Toronto's Pride Parade and fund raising activities for the community. She has also gained some internaltional attention when she ran for the office of Mayor and more recently the Leader of the Canadian Alliance Party.

Enza has always felt she was female and started dressing secretly, borrowing clothes from her mother, while in her early teens, . Her family was traditional Italian Catholics and Enza was even an altar boy. Her younger brother now knows she is transgendered but she has kept the truth from her dad, who's near 70, because it would "kill him." To be Italian and "anything but heterosexual is the most taboo thing in the world."

She takes estrogen and has had electrolysis treatments. Enza would like breast implants, but can't afford them. As for GRS that's still up in the air, but she sees it happening sometime "in the future." Which is expensive as we know, and isn't covered by health insurance here in Ontario. This is a position that many have found ourselves in.

She trained and worked as a civil engineer but it's not the sort of career where Enza feels she can dress female and be herself. So she cleans Woody's, a popular Church Sreet bar to make a living.

"People say, 'how can you go from being an engineer to cleaning a bar?' But I love it because the environment is very positive. I'm accepted and I have a lot of freedom with the hours I work" and allows her the opportunity to do volunteer and fundraising work for various groups in the GLBT community.

If something important is happening in Toronto concerning GLBTs, you'll usually find Enza.

Toronto's Chief of Police, Julian Fantino gets a kiss from Enza at a meeting of the GLBT Community on Janurary 26, 2000.

Toronto's Mayor, Mel Lastman rides with Enza in the Gay Pride Parade.

Enza at the Gay Life and Style Show held in November 2000 at the Toronto Convention Centre.

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