The actor has credited Gretchen with building up his diminished self-image, which had been assailed by both chemical abuse and an arrest for assaulting a male transvestite.
These priestesses were either female, or male transvestites.
Many male transvestites have a history of being dressed when toddlers by their doting mothers in pretty dresses.
The film proper opens with Inspector Warren finding the corpse of a male transvestite named Patrick/Patricia, who has committed suicide.
While making the boots Charlie sees the possible market of shoes for male transvestites.
This caused minor controversy in the USA, as some people mistakenly thought Lennox was a male transvestite.
The 24-year-old okama (male transvestite) who is Kanou's childhood friend.
The babaylan can be male, female, or male transvestites (known as asog, bayoc, or bayog), but most of the babaylan were female.
The body of a male transvestite, still wearing women's clothing, was found in Kingman Lake in July 1944.