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To some trans-genders (or people who suffer from transsexualism as they like to term it) crossdresse
Although the term dressing in womens clothing was a modern invention, it has exactly the same two Latin roots as the word travesty, which dates from the 17th century.
Hirschfeld's transvestites thus were, in today's terms, not just transvestites, but people from all over the transgender spectrum. They take great care in their choice of clothing, wigs, and makeup, sometimes spending considerable time on transforming their appearance from male to woman. In both Europe and North America cross-dresser behaviour (both by male and female bodied persons) was until the 1960s seen as an expression of homosexuality or suppressed homosexual impulses.
That led, paradoxically, to yet another usage of cross-dressing: Today cross-dressing is sometimes used to describe specifically cross-dressing male-bodied, male identified, heterosexual persons.
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