Kaleo.org – By Candice Novak – Ka Leo Associate Copy Editor
There are almost 12 million Internet sites that come up for the search ?tranny.? The gender labeled, officially transvestite or transsexual, is a man or woman who has crossed over to the other sex by means of dress, hormone or ? in the extreme ? surgery. For the plural form ? ?trannies? ? only two and a half million links pop up.
Over the last 30 years, the transsexual population in many countries, including this one, has grown exponentially. Of every 5,000 Americans, 75 of them fall under the label of transgender and two have had male-to-female sex operations, according to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender news site Advocate.com. In the current era of independent ego-boosting and it?s-all-about-you sexual freedom, more and more people are going public with their desired gender roles. Not that any of this has a landslide correlation to the 1975 debut of ?The Rocky Horror Picture Show,? but the timing is consistent.
This population has ? for the most part ? mixed into society, if not with some hitches. In this boom, it was inevitable that the tranny population, for which there is really no scientific count, would infiltrate all aspects of society, including the oldest profession: prostitution