I understand where you are coming from now. A male, dressed and identifying as a female, if they were truly dressed as transvestite, no, she'd likely not know the difference. Slap a wig and some lipstick on a dude and...no. I have a friend who dresses up and does a show in a nearby city, for a charity ball for an animal shelter, he does it for fun now, but in his younger days, I'm told he really decked out, some of the others who perform, I'd not know the difference unless I were very up close, and personal. Anything can happen but I don't see a lot of transvestite, Latino, folks, kidnapping folks, in Redding, CA. Iirc Redding is rather conservative, like where I live. Gays who live where I do, live a relatively quiet life, in our conservative little county, but since they were born here, they have become accepted, for the most part. There are still some incidents that are unkind.