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Slaying Casts Light On Hollywood's Transgender Prostitutes

Murder Casts Light On Transgender Prostitutes Of Hollywood
Kathleen Miles
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Executive Editor, The WorldPost

In this July 14, 2012 photo, Linda Elizabeth Tylor Martinez, 22, left, talks with a potential client outside a bar in the El Milagro neighborhood of Guatemala City. Born a man, Tylor is a transgender woman who moves between two distinct worlds: one male, one female. Tylor is a man as a teacher and a woman as a prostitute. "In the beginning it (prostitution) was out of necessity because I was still getting my teacher's license, she said. But now, it's also because it's the only place that I can really be a woman." (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
In this July 14, 2012 photo, Linda Elizabeth Tylor Martinez, 22, left, talks with a potential client outside a bar in the El Milagro neighborhood of Guatemala City. Born a man, Tylor is a transgender woman who moves between two distinct worlds: one male, one female. Tylor is a man as a teacher and a woman as a prostitute. "In the beginning it (prostitution) was out of necessity because I was still getting my teacher's license, she said. But now, it's also because it's the only place that I can really be a woman." (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

The last that Cassidy Vickers' street friends saw of him was about 10 p.m. on Nov. 17, 2011, outside the Donut Time shop on Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood.

He was waving and saying he'd be back in a bit.

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