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A man who spent two weeks in an Oslo jail’s women’s cell block finally admitted to jailers that he wasn’t a woman. The prisoner, who was arrested while wearing heavy make-up and women’s clothing, showed jailers that he wasn’t a woman. Half-way through a sex-change operation, he had breasts, but still had male genitals. He had been strip searched upon arrival at the jail, but “it seems pretty clear that our body-search techniques aren’t good enough,” a police spokesman said. (Reuters) ...Surely the Norwegian cops would be welcome in classes in Beijing.


Publication Date: 28 July 1996

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