transvestite

noun

trans·ves·tite | \ tran(t)s-ˈve-ˌstīt

, tranz- \

Definition of transvestite

: a person who wears clothes designed for the opposite sex : a cross-dresser An older term for crossdresser is transvestite. Crossdressers often dress only in certain situations. They do not usually identify as transgender—most identify as straight men.— Laura Erickson-Schroth

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Other Words from transvestite

transvestism \ tran(t)s-ˈve-ˌsti-zəm

\ or less commonly transvestitism \ tran(t)s-ˈve-ˌsti-ˌti-zəm

\ noun

transvestite adjective

Examples of transvestite in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The show pulls heavily from the run of psychedelic writer Grant Morrison, such as including Danny the Street, a sentient, transvestite stretch of roadway. — Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, "After ‘Umbrella Academy,’ here’s 10 more shows, movies based on offbeat graphic novels," 11 Aug. 2020 More than half of those were against transvestite, transsexual and transgender women, according to the National Observatory of LGBT Hate Crimes. — NBC News, "Argentine television gets its first transgender news anchor," 20 Mar. 2020 First, Johnson and Rivera were transvestites, not transgender (a term that appeared only later). — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, "The Overreach of LGBTQ Activism," 5 July 2019 In the '80s, Hunter experienced a strange career revival of sorts when the eccentric indie filmmaker John Waters cast him in a couple of projects opposite the transvestite performer Divine, and the films became cult classics. — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, "'Awards Chatter' Podcast — Remembering Tab Hunter," 11 July 2018 Jesus Christ, Harriet Tubman and a transvestite fairy are all involved in the mystery thriller, opening March 1. — Sarah Bahr, Indianapolis Star, "Steve Martin musical, Edgar Allen Poe highlight new Phoenix Theatre season," 9 July 2018 She could just as easily be called, in the language of the later twentieth century, a fetishistic transvestite, a lesbian, a latent transsexual or a hermaphrodite. — Longreads, "The Roaring Girls of Queer London," 8 May 2018 Beatniks, transvestites and obvious homosexuals are conspicuously absent. — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, "Charles Murray Is a Marketing Genius," 11 Apr. 2018 My friend Paul Salopek produced dozens of investigative stories, about abuses by the border patrol, the inhalant epidemic, the lives of transvestite prostitutes in Juarez. — Steve Almond, Longreads, "My Own ‘Bad Story’: I Thought Journalism Would Make a Hero of Me," 3 Apr. 2018

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