transvestites in English

noun
1
a person, typically a man, who derives pleasure from dressing in clothes appropriate to the opposite sex.
And besides the fun of dressing up as a woman at Carnival, genuine transvestites in Panama face discrimination, pushed to the edges of society.
synonyms:drag queencross-dresserfemale impersonatorgender-bendertrannie
noun
  • drag queencross-dresserfemale impersonatorgender-bendertrannie
  • cross-dresser

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1. But for many transvestites , cross - dressing is an intensely sexual activity.

2. Actually, as it turned out, the transvestites were not a homogenous group either.

3. 22 There is in this du Transvestites and transsexuals do not challenge the social construction of gender.

4. Aspects of his experiences with longshoremen, the homeless, thugs, pimps, transvestites, prostitutes, homosexuals, addicts and the overall poverty-stricken community, is expressed in Last Exit to Brooklyn.

5. These Butches were, in part, inspired by 19th-century cross-dressers — then called male impersonators or transvestites — who presented and lived fully as men in an era when passing was a