Stu Rasmussen is an American politician who is reported to be the United States first openly transgender mayor when he was elected as the mayor of Silverton, Oregon in November 2008. He had previously been elected twice in the 1990s as mayor of this Willamette Valley community, before coming out as transgender. He was also three times a member of the city council. Ramussen is biologically male and identifies as a heterosexual man, but has breast implants and dresses as a woman.
