Smile called provoking act in transgender case

DenverPost.com – By Monte Whaley – The Denver Post

Greeley – Allen Andrade told his girlfriend that he “snapped” when he learned the woman he had oral sex with the night before was biologically a man.

Indeed, until he confronted 18-year-old Angie Zapata in her Greeley apartment in July, Andrade had no reason to believe she was born Justin Zapata, Andrade’s attorney argued Thursday at his preliminary hearing in Weld County District Court.

Zapata’s closet was full of women’s clothes and her apartment was decorated with a female’s touch, testified Greeley police Detective Greg Tharp.