Transvestism is the practice of dressing in a manner traditionally or stereotypically associated with a different gender. The terms transvestism and transvestite were coined by Magnus Hirschfeld in 1910.

2025年1月20日 · Transvestism, practice of wearing the clothes of the opposite sex. The term transvestism came into use following the publication in 1910 of Die Transvestiten (The Transvestites), a work by German physician Magnus Hirschfeld.

Transvestism, commonly termed as cross-dressing, means to dress in the clothing of opposite sex. We describe a series of three cases with transvestism as one of their primary complaints. The discussion sheds light on the various ways in which transvestism as a …

Transvestism involves recurrent, intense sexual arousal from cross-dressing. Transvestic disorder is transvestism that causes significant distress or substantially interferes with daily functioning.

2015年8月28日 · Transvestism, which is also termed cross-dressing, describes an individual’s wearing of clothes that are typically associated with a different gender from the one with which that person...

As its Latin roots suggest, a transvestite is a cross-dresser, or someone who wears the clothes of the other gender. Transvestism is mainly associated with men who dress as women, in large part because clothing standards for women have become so relaxed as to make male attire on women hardly worth a second glance.

Transvestism, the oldest of the terms, is considered a psychosexual disorder characterizated by an erotic focus on clothing, whereas transexuals are defined as individuals who have a ‘gender identity’ that is at odds with the gender by which they are socially designated.

Transvestism, also known as cross-dressing or dressing in opposite-sex clothing, is a complex phenomenon that has been present throughout human history. This practice involves individuals who derive pleasure or satisfaction from wearing clothing traditionally associated with …

In general parlance, transvestism (literally, “cross-dressing”) denotes dressing in the clothing of the opposite sex for any purpose. As a psychiatric diagnosis, transvestism denotes cross-dressing that is associated with or intended to pro-duce sexual arousal;1 this …

Transvestism has been defined as the desire to appear in the clothes of the sex to which the person in question, according to his or her external genitalia, does not belong. The word is derived from trans: opposite, and vestitus: dress, and was coined by the German sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld. 1 In the English-speaking countries the term ...