Cross-dressing
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Cross-dressing (sometimes referred to as transvestism) is the preferred term for dressing in a manner generally associated with a gender other than the one one self-identifies as.
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[edit] Misconceptions
[edit] Relationship with transsexuality
Persons who identify with a gender which differs from their genetic sex are transsexuals. They may dress as anyone else in their gender would without being a crossdresser. There's an old joke in parts of the trans community that a transvestite is a transwoman minus two years, but in practice they're different forms of gender variance that happen to overlap sometimes.
[edit] Relationship with homosexuality
As Ed Wood went to great pains to explain in his masterpiece, Glen or Glenda, "transvestites are not homosexuals". They can be, but the two aspects are separate and only tangentially related.
[edit] Relationship with Feminism
This is mostly dependent on who you ask. In some cases the idea of gender specific clothing as acceptable is not so much in the ideals of feminism. To put another way, while a woman now wearing a pantsuit isn't exactly shunned or frowned on in the modern era, the idea of a man wearing a skirt (that isn't plaid) is. The idea of "man tailor" instead of just "tailor" for all.
[edit] Cross-dressing and the Bible
Not surprisingly, this is another abomination. Deuteronomy 22:5.
[edit] Well-known cross-dressers
- Eddie Izzard
- Ed Wood
- J. Edgar Hoover
- Rudolph Giuliani — and there are photos to prove it![1]
- Larry Page — founder of Google.
- Tim Berners-Lee — founder of the World Wide Web.[2]
- Twiggy Ramirez, which is what led to some of the fundie rumors of the 1990s.
- The Monty Python Lumberjack [3], and pretty much everyone else in the troupe.
- The New York Dolls
- Dame Edna, Danny la Roux, RuPaul, Lily Savage
- Grayson Perry, artist
- Tim Curry and Anthony Stewart Head
- Zero[4]
[edit] Footnotes
- ↑ Like this one. And this one with Donald Trump. And this one. And this one.
- ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/11/first-photo-on-the-internet_n_1666278.html
- ↑ http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/lyrics2/nov_lumberjack.html lyrics here
- ↑ Though, like Eddie Izzard I much prefer the term executive transvestite.