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Definition of Transvestite

1. Noun. Someone who adopts the dress or manner or sexual role of the opposite sex.

2. Adjective. Receiving sexual gratification from wearing clothing of the opposite sex.

Definition of Transvestite

1. Noun. A person who sometimes wears clothes traditionally worn by and associated with the opposite sex; typically a male who cross-dresses occasionally by habit or compulsion. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Transvestite

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Transvestite

1. A person who dresses in the clothing of the opposite sex, i.e., a person who cross-dresses. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Transvestite

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Literary usage of Transvestite

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Psychoanalysis and Love by André Tridon (1922)
""In men's clothes," a male transvestite said, "I have the feeling of ... "In feminine clothes," a female transvestite said, "I feel inhibited and hampered. ..."

2. Thailand by Christopher Evans, Lindsey Evans (2006)
"Other transvestite performances can be enjoyed at Andaman Queen Cabaret and in many of the neighboring open air bars in Patong. ..."

3. Human Rights Watch World Report 1998 by Human Rights Watch Staff (1997)
"... on August 29, police raided another gay bar in Sofia and assaulted its patrons, On July 12, Demet Demir, a Turkish transvestite, was reportedly severely ..."

4. My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World by Julian Dibbell (1998)
"“Some MUD players have suggested to me,” he wrote, “that such transvestite flirts are perhaps acting out their own (latent or otherwise) homosexual urges or ..."

5. Guatemala's Forgotten Children: Police Violence and Abuses in Detention by Lee Tucker, Human Rights Watch/Americas (1997)
"The only boy he had seen with AIDS was a transvestite. Health workers and street educators predict that the incidence of AIDS will rise dramatically without ..."

6. More Than a Name: State-Sponsored Homophobia and Its Consequences in by Scott Long, A. Widney Brown, Gail Cooper (2003)
"I saw a transvestite—she was young and probably working the streets. I saw five young men jump her and beat her to the ground. A police van drove right past ..."

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