“Everything’s pointing to (the indication) it was a breakup-like argument,” Brooks told The State. He also continues to misgender her in the media in one of the most blatant and unchallenged ways I’ve witnessed in years of transgender people when he referred to the victim as a “crossdresser”, to Charlotte-based NBC affiliate. “He is a crossdresser, and he was dressed and had makeup on and that kind of stuff, but whether that has anything to do with this case or not, we have no idea.”