transvestic

English

Adjective

transvestic (not comparable)

1. Relating to transvestism.
   • 1996, Michael G. Gelder, Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry, page 499:

     Transvestic fetishism varies from the occasional wearing of a few articles of clothing of the opposite sex to complete cross-dressing.

   • 2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 78:

     He occupies himself professionally with women's clothes as an outlet for his suppressed transvestic desires.

   • 2012, D. Richard Laws, William T. O'Donohue, Sexual Deviance, Second Edition: Theory, Assessment, and Treatment:

     Eighty-two percent (n = 23) of the paraphilic group declared fetishistic interests, 79% reported sadomasochistic interests, and 50% were transvestic.

Derived terms

• transvestic fetishism

 

Translations

relating to transvestism

• Polish: transwestytyczny m

Anagrams

• Cervantists