Legal Opinion
People v. Simmons
Criminal Court of the City of New York
Decided June 11, 1974PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the CourtM. Marvin Berger, J.
The defendant is a male.
When arrested he wore a woman’s wig, dress, makeup and shoes. Following arrest he was searched, and his true sex was discovered.
His accoutrement may mean that he is a transvestite, that is, a person who achieves sexual stimulation from cross dressing, wearing the clothing of the opposite sex (Freedman and Kaplan, Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry [1967 ed.], p. 982). Or he may be a transsexual, an individual with the anatomy of one sex, who believes so firmly that he belongs to the other sex that he is obsessed with a compulsion to alter his appearance, social…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- People v. Rochester Railway & Light Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1909
- People v. VaughnCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1961
- People v. Ebasco Services Inc.New York Supreme Court · 1974
- People v. MaurinCalifornia Supreme Court · 1888
- Hodecker v. StricklerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1897
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3Cited by1 opinion
- People v. ShermanRochester City Court · 1982