Op-ed: How TV's CSI Is Screwing Us Again  By Nick Adams
Originally published on Advocate.com December 02 2012 12:51 PM
ET   The episode begins with the police walking up and down the
Fremont Street area of Las Vegas, arresting several people all
of whom are intended to be seen by the show's viewers as freaks
and weirdos.  In fact, one of the officers says, "That's why I'm
here. You deal with the whack jobs [emphasis added] and I do the
evidence collecting."  Another officer says while looking at the
people arrested, "Full moon tonight."  One of the people
arrested and taken to the police station is obviously a
transgender person.  The show cast a masculine-appearing male
actor, and put him in a sparkly dress and exaggerated make-up,
intending to create the stereotypical "man in a dress" version
of a transgender woman.  Once all of the "whack jobs" are at the
police station, an officer looks at the transgender woman's
driver's license.  Viewers see a man's picture on the license
while the officer says "Josh M