RockyMountainNews.com – By Chris Barge, Rocky Mountain News
The mustache bothered him most.
When Rick Grahn looked in the mirror, his facial hair reaffirmed that he was a man, meant to work in a man’s profession – a cop who patrolled the rough world of pawn brokers and theft cases.
But the whiskers also glared back at him at night, when he would escape his public persona.
At home, he would dress as the woman he believed himself to be and imagine what it would be like to live as a woman.
The wiry, 5-foot-10 detective went through phases of shaving the mustache off then growing it back, hiding his thoughts from others.