LJ World dot com 🔗 [Link: www2.ljworld.com/news/2007/jun/02/officer_switching_genders_after_years_despair/]Associated Press
June 2, 2007
Since coming to grips with her condition and seeking therapy, Jessica has started hormone therapy and is saving up the $17,500 necessary for a sex-change operation, formally called gender reassignment surgery.
She also has come out to the police department, which in January allowed her to dress as a woman at work, including makeup and fingernail polish. Not that she's lost anything when confronting suspects, even in topaz earrings.
"When I get loud, I sound like a man," she said. "It throws the bad guys off. They can think whatever they want. I don't care."
