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Last year, a fan group for popular actor Xiao Zhan shut down an entire fan fiction website over a piece which had depicted him as a crossdressing teen in love with another male idol.

From BBC • Sep. 9, 2021

The /crossdressing subreddit currently has a robust 174,000 members.

From Slate • Sep. 2, 2021

I’ve come all this way, gone thru this whole change, crossdressing 14 years, hormone shots for 8 yrs.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 16, 2019

On the B-side of The Old Fashioned Way was this daring affront to middle-of-the-road pop sensibilities – what Aznavour believed to be the first chanson about a crossdressing gay man.

From The Guardian • Oct. 2, 2018

Finally, the West Coast gets its premiere of Fierstein's "Casa Valentina," which explores the world of a tucked-away outpost for heterosexual crossdressing men.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2015