I guess I should specify I don't believe that this Asian male had his surgery yet if anything he'd have the hormones but if he had *advertiser censored* done they'd find those(unless the killer hates trans so much he took them but I doubt it) this guy likely(based on my close trans friends and things I've watched) was either into men or bi or at least into men because I don't know that many ones who change into a female just to date other females but it does happen. And either could put on a wig and makeup and pass as female because he had androgynous features or look very femine and was skinny and didn't have a manly body. This person I don't believe looked male until the killer got him alone. For instance my brothers best friend who's like a brother(now sister) to me we never once expected he was trans or bi and he dated girls and had a thin runners body with muscles and when he started showing up dressed as a girl we were thrown off cause we never oncee expected it. But with the right clothes and makeup and his hair that he's now growing long he looks like a girl for the most part except in bright light but I doubt this person picks up the people in the day and if he uses Craigslist maybe there's evidence of an Asian women who when we look close could be male. People look at her weird treat her weird etc and we constantly worry someone in town will commit a hate crime(even more so with our town not being as big) he also has told me he isn't sure he wants surgery and that some trans don't want the last part changed and some do. This guy could have not wanted female parts but I doubt he was someone in drag selling himself but it's possible. I then started watching the Caitlin Jenner show because I kept hearing how good it was but they go into a few groups of trans people to talk to them(now that I think about it I didn't see many turning into men and rarely see it but it happens so he could have been female turned male but I don't think so) and they start saying how scary and hard it is for them to find work even after surgery sometimes and how the cost is so high for the surgery that they start doing prostitution to make money for it. But rarely do they go to a good surgeon and always it seems they go to Mexico because their friend got a cheap thing done there and they want the same(often they're treated like meat and the surgery is bad) and back then acceptance wasn't as it is now so some guy who feels tricked could get violent and it happens even when dating but they haven't told them they're male yet and they find out after being intimate in ways besides sex. And it happens by people who are homophobic or hate trans and if this dude could tell it's a dude he could have picked him up to kill him. My trans friend is over right now and I ran it by him/her and he agreed and we also agreed because there are groups of trans people on social media(support type networks) or ones like Caitlin Jenner attends that seemed like AA meetings but not for addiction and just for support. A lot of them get kicked out by family and disowned and are homeless and alone if the family won't accept them. A lot of trans kids who show it early on end up so bullied they kill themselves so especially back then the world wasn't a tolerant and a hate crime easily could have happened and been added to his trophy area of murdered girls. I think if we looked around to different groups and asked if any knew an Asian male who was trans and went missing(and maybe had a drug issue like a lot of the others) they'd potentially have a name of someone and it could lead to the ID because they have some cops who won't take the missing persons of a trans person seriously or a prostitute seriously(as we've seen with SG) so I'm sure it's even worse for some when trying to report a trans one. And they may not know the person is dead but may say they haven't heard from them in so long and then when looked into it could turn up they're missing. So I think this guy was feminne most likely but they sometimes aren't so it could be either but somehow the news articles know the person is trans and that makes me curious.