Әртүрлі жыныстың киімдерін кию және мінез-құлқы

Dressing and acting in a style or manner traditionally associated with a different gender

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. In the early 20th century, transvestite referred to cross dressers, and also a variety of people who would now be considered transgender. The term transvestite is now considered outdated and derogatory, and has been replaced with the more neutral word cross dresser. Being part of the homosexual movement of Weimar Germany in the beginning, a first transvestite movement of its own started to form since the mid 1920s, resulting in founding first organizations and the first transvestite magazine, Das 3. Geschlecht. The rise of National Socialism stopped this movement from 1933 onwards.

Magnus Hirschfeld coined the word transvestite in 1910 (from Latin trans , "across, over" and vestitus, "dressed") to refer to the sexual interest in cross dressing. He used it to describe persons who habitually and voluntarily wore clothes of the opposite sex. Hirschfeld's group of transvestites consisted of both males and females, with heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, and asexual orientations. Hirschfeld himself was not happy with the term: He believed that clothing was only an outward symbol chosen on the basis of various internal psychological situations. Hirschfeld also clearly distinguished between transvestism as an expression of a person's "contra sexual" (transgender) feelings and fetishistic behavior, even if the latter involved wearing clothes of the other sex. from where it was imported into Portuguese, with the same meaning.

Today, the term transvestite is commonly considered outdated and derogatory, with the term cross dresser used as a more appropriate replacement. The term transvestite was historically used to diagnose medical disorders, including mental health disorders, and transvestism was viewed as a disorder, while the term cross dresser was coined by the trans community. In some cases, the term transvestite is seen as more appropriate for use by members of the trans community instead of by those outside of the trans community, and some have reclaimed the word.

When cross dressing occurs for erotic purposes over a period of at least six months and also causes significant distress or impairment, the behavior is considered a mental disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and the psychiatric diagnosis "transvestic fetishism" is applied. The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) listed dual role transvestism (non sexual cross dressing) and fetishistic transvestism (cross dressing for sexual pleasure) as disorders in ICD 10 (1994). Both items were removed for ICD 11 (2022).