Transvestism is the practice of dressing and acting in a style or manner traditionally associated with the opposite sex. In some cultures, transvestism is practiced for religious, traditional or ceremonial reasons.
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History
Terminology
Although the term was coined in the late 1910s, that phenomenon is not new. It is called in the Hebrew Bible. The word has undergone several changes of meaning since it was first created and is still used in various senses. Today, the term transvestites is generally considered outdated and insulting, with the term cross-dresser being used as a more appropriate substitute. This is because the term transvestites has historically been used to diagnose medical disorders, including mental health disorders, and transvestism is seen as a nuisance, but the term cross-dresser is created by the transgender community. In some cases, however, the term "transvestite" is considered more appropriate for use by members of the transgender community and not by those outside the transgender community, and some have reclaimed the word.
The origin of the term
Magnus Hirschfeld coined transvestites in 1910 (from Latin trans - , "across, above" and vestitus , "dressed") to refer on sexual interest in cross dressing. He uses it to describe people who are accustomed and volunteer to wearing the clothes of the opposite sex. The Hirschfeld transvestites group consists of men and women, with heterosexual orientation, homosexual, bisexual, and asexual.
Hirschfeld himself is unhappy with the term: He believes that clothing is only an outward symbol chosen on the basis of various internal psychological situations. In fact, Hirschfeld helps people to achieve first name change (name given law and asked for gender specific in Germany) and performs the first reported sexual substitution surgery. Therefore, transgender Hirschfeld, at present, is not just a transvestite, but a wide variety of people from the transgender spectrum.
Hirschfeld also noticed that sexual arousal is often associated with transvestism. In more recent terminology, this is sometimes called transvestic fetishism. Hirschfeld also clearly distinguishes between transvestism as an expression of "transgender" (transgender) feelings and the behavior of a person's talisman, even if the latter is involved in wearing clothing of the other sex.
Cross usage
After all the changes that took place during the 1970s, large groups were left without a word to describe themselves: heterosexual men dressed in feminine traditional dress. The group is not very happy with the term "transvestism", and therefore takes the term "cross-dresser". Cross-dressers are men who wear women's clothes and often admire and imitate women, but identify themselves as distinct from gay and transsexual men, and generally deny having a fetishistic intention.
When cross-dressing occurs for erotic purposes for at least six months and also causes significant disruption or disturbance, behavior is considered a mental disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder, and the psychological diagnosis of "transvestic fetishism" is applied.
Culture
In some cultures, transvestism is practiced for religious, traditional or ceremonial reasons. For example, in India some male devotees of the Hindu god Krishna, especially in Mathura and Vrindavan, wore women's clothing to serve as queens, the goddess Radha, as an act of devotion. In Italy, Neapolitan femminielli (feminine men) wear a wedding dress, called matrimonio dei femminielli (femminielli marriage), a procession taking place on the streets, a tradition that seems has a pagan origin.
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See also
- Cogender
- Drag (clothing)
- I'm My Own Wife
- List of transgender related topics
- Transgender
- Transsexualism
- Travesti (theater)
- Dual-role transvestism
Note
References
- Ackroyd, Peter. Dress up, waria and drag: history of obsession. Simon and Schuster, 1979. ISBNÃ, 0671250914
- Mancini, Elena. A Brightter Shade of Pink: Magnus Hirschfeld. ProQuest, 2007. ISBNÃ, 0549700552
- Ambrosio, Giovanna. Transvestism, Transsexualism in Psychoanalytic Dimensions. Karnac Books, 2011. ISBNÃ, 178049307X
- Gravois, Valory. Cherry Single: A Witness Comes of Age (novel) Alchemist/Light Publishing, 1997 (Available for free, online), ISBNÃ, 0-9600650-5-9
Further reading
- Thanem Torkild, Wallenberg Louise (2016). "Just do gender? Transvestism and low gender power in everyday life and work". Organization . 23 (2): 250-271. doi: 10.1177/1350508414547559.
External links
Definition of transgender dictionary in Wiktionary
- Transvestism at Britannica Online EncyclopÃÆ'Â|dia
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