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Title: Former transsexual cop opens up
Post by: Shana A on January 11, 2008, 08:17:01 PM
http://www.hudsonreporter.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1291&dept_id=523585&newsid=19191440&PAG=461&rfi=9 (http://www.hudsonreporter.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1291&dept_id=523585&newsid=19191440&PAG=461&rfi=9)

"Former transsexual cop opens up

Now a 'real' woman, Lt. Aiello talks about life after Hoboken PD


By:Madeline Friedman
Reporter staff writer    01/11/2008

In the spring of 1995, Hoboken motorcycle police officer John Aiello told his superiors that when he returned from his leave, it would be as a woman named Janet.

Rumors of the situation began circulating around the mile-square city, but police officials refused to confirm them for the press. Finally, in July of 1995, the New York Post landed an interview with Aiello, then slapped the officer's photo on their cover with the headline, "Sex-op cop fights for job."

The media promptly descended on the mile-square city, and a media frenzy ensued, with a New York radio DJ calling Aiello "one ugly woman."
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