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101 relations: Accoutrements, Androgyny, Ballad, Beard, Blanchard's transsexualism typology, Book of Deuteronomy, Breast prostheses, Breeches role, Breeching (boys), Clothing, Comedia (Spanish play), Corset, Cosplay, Cross dressing ball, Cross-dressing in film and television, Cross-dressing in literature, Cross-gender acting, Crossplay, Disguise, Drag (clothing), Drag king, Drag queen, Dress, Dress code, Ed Wood, En femme, Fashion design, Faux queen, Female, Feminization (activity), Garter (stockings), Gender bender, Gender identity, Gender role, Girdle, Greek mythology, Greenery Press, Helen Boyd, Heteronormativity, Heterosexuality, Hijra (South Asia), Hindu mythology, Homosexuality, Human sexuality, IUniverse, Jack Lemmon, John Clute, Judith Butler, Kabuki, Kathoey, ..., Kilt, List of transgender-related topics, List of wartime cross-dressers, Male, Margaret King, Marlene Dietrich, Martin le Franc, Masculism, Mask, Mastectomy, Men's skirts, Norah Vincent, Norse mythology, Otokonoko, Packing (phallus), Passing (gender), Petticoat, Plot device, Prosthesis, Rebecca Riots, Sarong, Self-Made Man (book), Sex and gender distinction, Sex assignment, Sex reassignment therapy, Sex-determination system, Sexual fetishism, Sexual orientation hypothesis, Social constructionism, Social norm, Society, Speech, Stocking, Taboo, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, The Famous Flower of Serving-Men, Thomas Aquinas, Transgender, Transvestic fetishism, Transvestism, Travesti (theatre), Tri-Ess, Tucking, Twelfth Night, Two-spirit, Undercover journalism, Vintage clothing, Wedding dress, Wig, Wikinews, Womanless wedding. Expand index (51 more) »
Accoutrements
Accoutrements are the personal/individual equipment of service people such as soldiers, sailors, police and firemen and employees of some private organizations such as security guards, other than their basic uniform and weapons.
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Androgyny
Androgyny is the combination of masculine and feminine characteristics.
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Ballad
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.
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Beard
A beard is the collection of hair that grows on the chin and cheeks of humans and some non-human animals.
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Blanchard's transsexualism typology
Blanchard's transsexualism typology, also Blanchard autogynephilia theory and Blanchard's taxonomy, is a psychological typology of male-to-female (MtF) transsexualism created by Ray Blanchard through the 1980s and 1990s, building on the work of his colleague, Kurt Freund.
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Book of Deuteronomy
The Book of Deuteronomy (literally "second law," from Greek deuteros + nomos) is the fifth book of the Torah (a section of the Hebrew Bible) and the Christian Old Testament.
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Breast prostheses
Breast prostheses are breast forms intended to simulate breasts.
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Breeches role
A breeches role (also pants role or trouser role, travesti or "Hosenrolle") is a role in which an actress appears in male clothing.
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Breeching (boys)
Breeching was the occasion when a small boy was first dressed in breeches or trousers.
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Clothing
Clothing (also known as clothes and attire) is a collective term for garments, items worn on the body.
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Comedia (Spanish play)
In the Spanish Golden Age (Siglo de Oro) tradition, a comedia is a three-act play combining dramatic and comic elements.
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Corset
A corset is a garment worn to hold and train the torso into a desired shape, traditionally a smaller waist or larger bottom, for aesthetic or medical purposes (either for the duration of wearing it or with a more lasting effect).
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Cosplay
, a contraction of the words costume play, is a hobby in which participants called cosplayers wear costumes and fashion accessories to represent a specific character.
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Cross dressing ball
Gay balls, cross dressing balls or drag balls, depending on the place, time, and type, were public or private balls, celebrated mainly in the first third of the twentieth century, where cross dressing and ballroom dancing with same sex partners was allowed.
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Cross-dressing in film and television
Cross-dressing in motion pictures began in the early days of the silent films.
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Cross-dressing in literature
Cross-dressing as a literary motif is well attested in older literature but is becoming increasingly popular in modern literature as well.
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Cross-gender acting
Cross-gender acting refers to actors or actresses portraying a character of the opposite gender.
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Crossplay
Crossplay (the term is a portmanteau of crossdressing and cosplay) is a type of cosplay in which the person dresses up as a character of a different gender.
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Disguise
A disguise can be anything which conceals or changes a person's physical appearance, including a wig, glasses, makeup, costume or other items.
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Drag (clothing)
The slang term "drag" refers to the wearing of clothing of the opposite sex, and may be used as a noun as in the expression in drag, or as an adjective as in drag show.
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Drag king
Drag kings are mostly female performance artists who dress in masculine drag and personify male gender stereotypes as part of an individual or group routine.
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Drag queen
A drag queen is a person who usually dresses in hyper-feminized or gender non-conforming clothing, and often acts with exaggerated femininity and in feminine gender roles for the purpose of entertainment.
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Dress
A dress (also known as a frock or a gown) is a garment consisting of a skirt with an attached bodice (or a matching bodice giving the effect of a one-piece garment).
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Dress code
A dress code is a set of written and, more often, unwritten rules with regard to clothing.
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Ed Wood
Edward Davis Wood Jr. (October 10, 1924 – December 10, 1978) was an American filmmaker, actor, and author.
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En femme
The term en femme is a lexical borrowing of a French phrase.
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Fashion design
Fashion design is the art of applying design, aesthetics and natural beauty to clothing and its accessories.
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Faux queen
A faux queen, bio queen, diva queen or female queen is a female performance artist who adopts the style typical of male drag queens.
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Female
Female (♀) is the sex of an organism, or a part of an organism, that produces non-mobile ova (egg cells).
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Feminization (activity)
In the context of D/s or kink, "forced" feminization or feminisation (see spelling differences), also known as sissification, refers to the practice of dressing a submissive partner as a woman and/or encouraging or training them to act in a feminine or exaggeratedly feminine ("hyperfeminine") manner.
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Garter (stockings)
Garters are articles of clothing: narrow bands of fabric fastened about the leg, used to keep up stockings, and sometimes socks.
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Gender bender
A gender bender (LGBT slang: one who genderfucks) is a person who disrupts, or "bends", expected gender roles.
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Gender identity
Gender identity is one's personal experience of one's own gender.
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Gender role
A gender role, also known as a sex role, is a social role encompassing a range of behaviors and attitudes that are generally considered acceptable, appropriate, or desirable for people based on their actual or perceived sex or sexuality.
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Girdle
The term girdle, meaning "belt", commonly refers to the liturgical attire that normally closes a cassock in many Christian denominations, including the Anglican Communion, Methodist Church and Lutheran Church.
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Greek mythology
Greek mythology is the body of myths and teachings that belong to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices.
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Greenery Press
Greenery Press is a publishing house based in Emeryville, California specializing in books on BDSM (particularly femdom) and polyamory, with over 50 titles in print.
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Helen Boyd
Helen Boyd (1969) is the pen name of Gail Kramer, the American author of two books about her relationship with her transgender partner.
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Heteronormativity
Heteronormativity is the belief that people fall into distinct and complementary genders (male and female) with natural roles in life.
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Heterosexuality
Heterosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between persons of the opposite sex or gender.
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Hijra (South Asia)
Hijra is a term given to eunuchs, intersex people, and transgender people in South Asia.
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Hindu mythology
Hindu mythology are mythical narratives found in Hindu texts such as the Vedic literature, epics like Mahabharata and Ramayana, the Puranas, the regional literatures Sangam literature and Periya Puranam.
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Homosexuality
Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.
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Human sexuality
Human sexuality is the way people experience and express themselves sexually.
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IUniverse
iUniverse, founded in October 1999, is a self-publishing company in Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.Kevin Abourezk, Lincoln Journal Star, January 22, 2008.
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Jack Lemmon
John Uhler Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) professionally known as Jack Lemmon, was an American actor and musician.
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John Clute
John Frederick Clute (born 12 September 1940) is a Canadian-born author and critic specializing in science fiction (also SF, sf) and fantasy literature who has lived in both England and the United States since 1969.
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Judith Butler
Judith Butler FBA (born February 24, 1956) is an American philosopher and gender theorist whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics and the fields of third-wave feminist, queer and literary theory.
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Kabuki
is a classical Japanese dance-drama.
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Kathoey
Kathoey or katoey (กะเทย) is a transgender woman or an effeminate gay male in Thailand.
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Kilt
A kilt (fèileadh) is a knee-length non-bifurcated skirt-type garment, with pleats at the back, originating in the traditional dress of Gaelic men and boys in the Scottish Highlands.
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List of transgender-related topics
The term transgender is multi-faceted and complex, especially where consensual and precise definitions have not yet been reached.
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List of wartime cross-dressers
Many people have engaged in cross-dressing during wartime under various circumstances and for various motives.
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Male
A male (♂) organism is the physiological sex that produces sperm.
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Margaret King
Margaret King (1773–1835), also known as Lady Mount Cashell and Mrs Mason, was an Irish hostess, writer, traveller, and medical adviser.
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Marlene Dietrich
Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich (27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) was a German actress and singer who held both German and American citizenship.
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Martin le Franc
Martin le Franc (c. 1410 – 1461) was a French poet of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance.
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Masculism
Masculism or masculinism may variously refer to advocacy of the rights or needs of men and boys; and the adherence to or promotion of attributes (opinions, values, attitudes, habits) regarded as typical of men and boys.
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Mask
A mask is an object normally worn on the face, typically for protection, disguise, performance, or entertainment.
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Mastectomy
Mastectomy (from Greek μαστός "breast" and ἐκτομή ektomia "cutting out") is the medical term for the surgical removal of one or both breasts, partially or completely.
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Men's skirts
Outside Western cultures, men's clothing commonly includes skirts and skirt-like garments; however, in North America and much of Europe, the wearing of a skirt is today usually seen as typical for women and girls and not men and boys, the most notable exceptions being the cassock and the kilt.
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Norah Vincent
Norah Vincent (born 20 September 1968 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American writer.
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Norse mythology
Norse mythology is the body of myths of the North Germanic people stemming from Norse paganism and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia and into the Scandinavian folklore of the modern period.
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Otokonoko
In contemporary Japanese culture, otokonoko (男の娘 Otoko no ko, "male daughter" or "male girl"), or otoko no musume, are men who cross-dress as women.
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Packing (phallus)
Packing is wearing padding or a phallic object in the front of the pants or underwear to give the appearance of having a penis and male bulge.
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Passing (gender)
In the context of gender, passing applies to a transgender individual who is generally perceived as cisgender.
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Petticoat
A petticoat or underskirt is an article of clothing, a type of undergarment worn under a skirt or a dress.
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Plot device
A plot device, or plot mechanism, is any technique in a narrative used to move the plot forward.
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Prosthesis
In medicine, a prosthesis (plural: prostheses; from Ancient Greek prosthesis, "addition, application, attachment") is an artificial device that replaces a missing body part, which may be lost through trauma, disease, or congenital conditions.
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Rebecca Riots
The Rebecca Riots took place between 1839 and 1843 in South and Mid Wales.
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Sarong
A sarong or sarung (Malay:, formal Indonesian:, colloquial Indonesian:, Tamil: சரம், Arabic: صارون, Sinhalese: සරම; meaning "sheath" in Indonesian and Malay) is a large tube or length of fabric, often wrapped around the waist, worn in South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, East Africa, and on many Pacific islands.
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Self-Made Man (book)
Self-Made Man: My Year Disguised as a Man is a book written by journalist Norah Vincent, recounting an 18-month experiment in which she disguised herself as a man—"Ned"—and then integrated into traditionally male-only venues, such as a bowling league and a monastery.
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Sex and gender distinction
The distinction between sex and gender differentiates a person's biological sex (the anatomy of an individual's reproductive system, and secondary sex characteristics) from that person's gender, which can refer to either social roles based on the sex of the person (gender role) or personal identification of one's own gender based on an internal awareness (gender identity).
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Sex assignment
Sex assignment (sometimes known as gender assignment) is the determination of an infant's sex at birth.
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Sex reassignment therapy
Sex reassignment therapy is the medical aspect of gender transitioning, that is, modifying one's characteristics to better suit one's gender identity.
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Sex-determination system
A sex-determination system is a biological system that determines the development of sexual characteristics in an organism.
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Sexual fetishism
Sexual fetishism or erotic fetishism is a sexual fixation on a nonliving object or nongenital body part.
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Sexual orientation hypothesis
The sexual orientation hypothesis is a hypothesis proposed by Donald McCreary in 1994 that attempts to explain the impact of gender stereotypes on judgments about sexual orientation.
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Social constructionism
Social constructionism or the social construction of reality (also social concept) is a theory of knowledge in sociology and communication theory that examines the development of jointly constructed understandings of the world that form the basis for shared assumptions about reality.
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Social norm
From a sociological perspective, social norms are informal understandings that govern the behavior of members of a society.
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Society
A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same geographical or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations.
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Speech
Speech is the vocalized form of communication used by humans and some animals, which is based upon the syntactic combination of items drawn from the lexicon.
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Stocking
Stockings (also known as hose, especially in a historical context) are close-fitting, variously elastic garments covering the leg from the foot up to the knee or possibly part or all of the thigh.
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Taboo
In any given society, a taboo is an implicit prohibition or strong discouragement against something (usually against an utterance or behavior) based on a cultural feeling that it is either too repulsive or dangerous, or, perhaps, too sacred for ordinary people.
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The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
The Encyclopedia of Fantasy is a 1997 reference work concerning fantasy fiction, edited by John Clute and John Grant.
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The Famous Flower of Serving-Men
The Famous Flower of Serving-Men or The Lady turned Serving-Man is Child Ballad number 106Francis James Child, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, and a murder ballad.
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Thomas Aquinas
Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church.
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Transgender
Transgender people have a gender identity or gender expression that differs from their assigned sex.
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Transvestic fetishism
Transvestic fetishism is a psychiatric diagnosis applied to those who are thought to have an excessive sexual or erotic interest in cross-dressing; this interest is often expressed in autoerotic behavior.
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Transvestism
Transvestism is the practice of dressing and acting in a style or manner traditionally associated with the opposite sex.
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Travesti (theatre)
Travesti (literally "disguised" in French) is a theatrical term referring to the portrayal of a character in an opera, play, or ballet by a performer of the opposite sex.
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Tri-Ess
Tri-Ess (Society for the Second Self) is an international educational, social, and support group for heterosexual cross-dressers, their partners, and their families.
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Tucking
Tucking is a technique whereby an individual hides the crotch bulge of the penis and testicles so that they are not conspicuous through clothing.
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Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night, or What You WillUse of spelling, capitalization, and punctuation in the First Folio: "Twelfe Night, Or what you will" is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season.
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Two-spirit
Two-Spirit (also two spirit or, occasionally, twospirited) is a modern, pan-Indian, umbrella term used by some indigenous North Americans to describe certain people in their communities who fulfill a traditional third-gender (or other gender-variant) ceremonial role in their cultures.
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Undercover journalism
Undercover journalism is a form of journalism in which a reporter tries to infiltrate in a community by posing as somebody friendly to that community.
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Vintage clothing
Vintage clothing is a generic term for garments originating from a previous era.
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Wedding dress
A wedding dress or wedding gown is the clothing worn by a bride during a wedding ceremony.
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Wig
A wig is a head covering made from human hair, animal hair, or synthetic fiber.
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Wikinews
Wikinews is a free-content news source wiki and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation.
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Womanless wedding
A womanless wedding is a traditional community "ritual of inversion" performance, popular in the United States in the early 19th century.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-dressing
