Suspected Cross Dresser Charged In Cop Shooting

[LostInTime]

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It all started on Wednesday, when Detective Jeffrey Smith was shot in West Oakland during a prostitution sting.
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Initially, the shooter was described as a woman, then a man believed to be a cross-dresser.

[gina_taylor]

It's strange that in the first paragraph they refer to the suspect as a transvestite and then as the story proceeds they then refer to him as a cross-dresser. Now I know that there is a big difference between the two terms.

Gina

[LostInTime]

Actually the word transvestite is for one who dresses in the gender opposite to their birth gender.  The term cross dresser has been slowly replacing the word transvestite.