transvestism
noun
the practice, especially of those assigned male at birth, of wearing clothing usually associated with a different gender.
transvestitism
-
a variation of
transvestism.
Example Sentences
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James not only returned to the terrible world "of blighted childhoods," Edel observes, he frequently practiced a sort of "spiritual transvestitism" and returned in the form of a little girl.
From Time Magazine Archive
The rest of the humor is fetid stuff, performed with more energy than art, ranging from gags about chamber pots to winking asides about transvestitism as a career.
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