[
UK
/tɹænsvˈɛstɪzəm/
]
NOUN
- the practice of adopting the clothes or the manner or the sexual role of the opposite sex
How To Use transvestism In A Sentence
- It is a beautiful opera, full of lush arias, sensuous waltzes, and an intriguing amount of transvestism.
- The themes of transvestism, impotence, and homosexuality were a lot more risque back then than they are now.
- Hirschfeld emphasizes the fact that neither hermaphroditism nor eunuchoidism is commonly associated with homosexuality, and that a large proportion of the cases of transvestism, as defined by him, are heterosexual. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion
- Part of the programme dealt quite nicely with the subject of transvestism, and whilst perhaps the approach was a little too sympathetic, the whole subject was treated in a dignified manner.
