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This group did - and sometimes still does - distance themselves strictly from both homosexual men an
This group usually self-identifies as "cross-dressers".
Hirschfeld himself was not particularly happy with the term: he understood that clothing was entirely an outward symbol chosen on the basis of various internal psychological situations. They take great care in their choice of clothing, wigs, and makeup, sometimes spending considerable time on transforming their appearance from male to female. What hurt me the most was that people assumed I was a lesbian, a cross-dresser.
Today dressing in womens clothing is still applied mostly to male-bodied persons.
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