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Well, tranvestism is indeed mentioned in the original's "Officer Krupke" song, but more in line with being an obvious form of degeneracy possibly resulting from family and overall societal dysfunction along with juvenile violence and other forms of delinquency:These irony-laden, boundary-pushing lyrics portraying wise-ass teenage tomfoolery penned by Stephen Sondheim in 1957 were part of a type of pop culture that influenced older Boomers when they themselves were adolescents, particularly other Jewish guys like Steven Spielberg and Larry David, though it's doubtful they'll be completely tolerated in Spielberg's own 21st century deconstruction of this mid-20th century cultural object. It's bound to be yet another step in "Anything Goes" as gender-bending is today clearly seen as a holy sacrament whereas in the fifties it could only be presented in the context of aberrant behavior and societal decay even if from within a tongue-in-cheek context. Yet the edgy elements of this song were entertainingly portrayed for millions of people outside the concrete jungles who might have been unfamiliar with such things along with a clever though thinly disguised profanity that perhaps might have gone over the heads of squares who weren't quite hip or at least felt clever and a little naughty to Boomer kids in the know like Larry David who were actually living in boroughs like Brooklyn: