Green’s Dictionary of Slang

pertaining to transvestites or transvestism.

1979		E. Torres After Hours 60: Couldn’t find a hooker or a teevee knobber on 44th and Eighth.
1986		Lou Reed ‘Dirty Boulevard’ 🎵 on N.Y. [album] The TV whores are calling the cops out for a suck.
2001		P. Mortenson At Wanda’s Insistence 🌐 The owners, a lifelong crossdresser and his wife, had stumbled on a successful formula but in their gratitude for the early days and the support from the local TV community had always watched out for the waifs and strays who gravitated to the bar and offered them such help and advice as they were able.