“Transgender” has been in the social consciousness for a while now. Christine Jorgensen provided the first tangible image of a “sex change” in the 1950s and media has further explored the idea from The Silence of the Lambs (1991) to Boys Don’t Cry (1999) to more recently Orange is the New Black (2013). As far back as our entertainment goes, opposite-dress has been a source of humor and surprise. Transgendered characters often portrayed a sense of significant mental disorder or distress and an active dishonesty meant to be used as a twist at the end of a story. Discovering that the attractive girl is actually a boy is a staple in American humor. The DSM - 5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) in 2013 changed the condition from Gender Identity Disorder to Gender Dysphoria. This was celebrated by the LGBT (the “T” is for Transgender) community as a victory for equality. Dana Beyer who assisted the Washington Psychiatric...(Read Full Article)