cross-dressing
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Edwardian author Kenneth Grahame's story of boating, caravanning and picnicking and the hi-jinks of a cross-dressing amphibian is also an ode to the English landscape.
From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026
She was also a master of disguise, her cross-dressing outfits so carefully designed that law enforcement officials, studying bank surveillance tapes, had no idea they were chasing a woman.
From Slate • Nov. 15, 2025
But Erica Ford, as a cross-dressing game poacher and archer-in-disguise named Ralph, provides the kind of character and performance that delivers new blood and enlivens an old story.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
But in “English Teacher,” it’s a student LGBTQ+ group that complains, arguing that the jocks are cross-dressing as a joke and undermining students who are actually trans or nonbinary.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2024
Oh, yeah: Mr. Nossik was never afraid of cross-dressing.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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