Cross-dressing as a child saved
Tina Drew's life. The circumstances of
her gender displacement began so early that it is impossible to guess whether
Tina would have grown up a regular man had she not been in those circumstances. Tina is homosexual in orientation, but due to
age and circumstances she lives like a spinster.
Tina is a seamstress, whose
customers are the transvestite queens of the Memphis night life and stage. Tina herself does not fit the popular
stereotype and does not become personally involved in the scene. She doesn't go for glamour and cheesecake
affects, but lives and dresses like a frumpy, aging dowager.
Tina is a motherly soul who
regrets her inability to have born children.
She has experienced the very worst of life, but has managed to come
through with highly developed ethics. No one protected her as a child, so she
is drawn to protect the strays who stumble her way. She has saved Col's life more than once, and was
attracted to him sexually when he was a minor but her ethics prevented her from
acting up on it. Instead, she fills the
role of an older female relative who is always there when he needs her. She nags at him when she thinks he is too
morose, gives him unsolicited advice, and helps him rescue his niece Clara.
Unlike Col, Tina is truly gender
displaced. She is trapped in an
overweight, unattractive man's body that insists on producing a heavy beard which
she must constantly shave, but she has adjusted to these inconveniences with
humor and an offbeat sort of elegance.
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