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* In one episode of ''[[Rab C. Nesbitt]]'' a new barmaid at Rab's local pub is a pre-op trans woman (played by David Tennant, no less!). At the end of the episode she helps Rab and Mary to get revenge on Mary's extremely sleazy new boss (who has been sexually harrassing her from her first day in the job) by taking Mary's place at work one day and seducing him in the broom cupboard, leading to a spectacularly horrified reaction when he discovers certain unexpected items...
* In an episode of ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'', the [[Victim of the Week]], Cheryl (played by [[The L Word|Kate Moennig]]), is on trial for beating a man to death. As the investigation continues, it's discovered that she is a pre-op trans woman, and she acted in self defense. Long story short, she was put in a men's prison, and after her trial, {{spoiler|she is gang-raped}}.
* An episode of ''[[Crime Scene Investigation|CSI]]'' featured a well-intentioned doctor who did back-alley sex-change operations. It also revealed that some show girls weren't born girls.
** In another ''CSI'' episode, the victim was a pre-op trans woman, killed by an actor after he goes to bed with her, discovers her sexual identity and freaks out about the fact damaging his carreer. It ended with Grissom saying:
{{quote|There's an old rule of showbusiness that says 'Never be caught with a dead woman or a live man. He was caught with both.'}}