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Title: Suspected Cross Dresser Charged In Cop Shooting
Post by: LostInTime on January 11, 2007, 10:41:14 AM
Post by: LostInTime on January 11, 2007, 10:41:14 AM
Link (http://kdka.com/local/local_story_005071400.html)
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.
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.
Title: Re: Suspected Cross Dresser Charged In Cop Shooting
Post by: gina_taylor on January 11, 2007, 11:39:25 AM
Post by: gina_taylor on January 11, 2007, 11:39:25 AM
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
Gina
Title: Re: Suspected Cross Dresser Charged In Cop Shooting
Post by: LostInTime on January 12, 2007, 03:34:11 PM
Post by: LostInTime on January 12, 2007, 03:34:11 PM
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.