NYC Firefighter Beats ‘Top Model’ Tranny Girlfriend in Front of Strip Club

Today's top TV story: New York firefighter Taylor Murphy -- Mr. March in the 2011 FDNY calendar -- is charged with assault, criminal mischief, and criminal obstruction of breathing for allegedly beating his girlfriend Claudia Charriez -- a transsexual model who made it to the semifinals on "America's Next Top Model" before getting disqualified for being born with a penis -- in front of the Flashdancers strip club two weeks ago. Take it away, New York Post:

[Charriez] told The Post yesterday the attack began when Murphy became jealous during their visit to the Times Square nudie bar, where several men asked her for a lap dance. "A couple of guys saw me and wanted me to dance for them, " she said. "Then the owner came up to me and asked if I wanted to work for him. [Murphy] said he thought I was flirting with those guys."

They argued, and Murphy allegedly became violent on the sidewalk, shattering her cellphone on the ground and dragging her down the street by her hair, Charriez said. "He pinned me into a telephone booth and strangled me, then let go and started crying."

Like I always say, let he who hasn't broken down into tears after strangling his tranny girlfriend in a telephone booth throw the first stone.

The gender-bending model broke free from her 6-foot-3, 220-pound boyfriend, jumped in a cab and fled to her hotel on West 35th Street. Murphy was waiting when she got there and began biting, punching, kicking, slapping and choking Charriez, cops said.

"I told him to leave and that I didn't want to see him again," she said. "It set him off, and he slammed me into the bed and strangled me again with so much force."

Charriez fled to a friend's apartment, but Murphy allegedly followed her and banged on the door until the girls called the cops. "I was covered in bruises. My lip was split and pieces of my hair were falling out," she said.

"He called me from jail today and said he wanted me to write a letter saying it didn't happen."

I'm inclined to believe her, because society has taught me that any dude who looks like that inset photo DEFINITELY beats his girlfriend. And also because she's way hot. There, I said it. I don't care if she's a tranny, that's a smokin'-hot tranny. That's why I'm following through with Warming Glow's first-ever SEXY TRANNY GALLERY. I did not see this day coming.