transvestism
Americannoun
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Psychiatry. the practice, especially of those assigned male at birth, of wearing clothing usually associated with a different gender.
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Older Use: Often Offensive. the practice of crossdressing.
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Etymology
Origin of transvestism
First recorded in 1925–30; from German Transvestismus, from Latin trāns- trans- + vest(īre) “to clothe, dress” ( see vest ( def. )) + German -ismus -ism
Example Sentences
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You talk in the book about how we've evolved in how we look about gender identity, yet "transvestism" is still in the DSM.
From Salon • Nov. 5, 2021
By being liberated my half sisters and brothers and myself are able to educate the ignorant gays and straights that transvestism is a valid life style.
From Slate • Jun. 26, 2019
The very first work in the bibliography is by “Ackroyd, P”, a little‑known 1979 work on transvestism and drag.
From The Guardian • May 20, 2017
Across the river, at the open-roofed Shakespeare’s Globe, another production that features transvestism is being conducted in a similarly exuberant vein.
From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2015
Hirschfeld emphasizes the fact that neither hermaphroditism nor eunuchoidism is commonly associated with homosexuality, and that a large proportion of the cases of transvestism, as defined by him, are heterosexual.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion by Ellis, Havelock
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