LARGO - A city manager fired after revealing his sex change plans taped a segment Thursday night for CNN rather than appearing live on the network as was previously scheduled, said a spokeswoman for a nonprofit group representing him.

The segment featuring former Largo City Manager Steve Stanton and his lawyer was scheduled to air Friday at 9 p.m. on "Larry King Live," said Calla Devlin, the communications director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights, the nonprofit group representing Stanton, who was fired after he declared he would start dressing as a woman.

Devlin did not say why Stanton was bumped off Thursday's show.The 48-year-old was to discuss if he planned to sue this suburban city to get his job back. Stanton initially said taking Largo to court would be like "suing my mother."

But since the City Commission's two votes to fire him in February and March, Stanton has been recruited to join a national fight for transsexual employment rights.

City commissioners said it was Stanton's judgment, not the revelation he was a transsexual, that prompted both 5-2 votes to fire him from the $140,000-a-year job he held for 14 years.

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