Last time I checked, a “transvestite” was the proper way to refer to a person who hailed from a certain planet in the galaxy of Transylvania.
But it’s back on the lips of the people of mid-Missouri because it has recently been appropriated as a relevant insult in political discourse. As reported by the Democrat’s Dennis Rich, Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Randles recently accused Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon of being a “political transvestite” that “likes to dress up and pretend to be something he is not.”
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