Disorder characterized by recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving cross-dressing in a heterosexual male. The fantasies, urges, or behaviors cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational or other areas of functioning. (from APA, DSM-IV, 1994)
    

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Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman. Engraving.

C. Rittfar wearing Edwardian style dress.

A boy enjoying wearing female clothing. Colour process print, ca. 1919.

Sailors preparing for a concert party performance. Coloured process print after H. Gervise, 191-.

Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1821.

A man in drag, wearing a large hat and veil, posing in a garden.

Total transformation.

Sex life of a transvestite / by Larry Maddock (as told to him by Leonard Wheeler).

Tales of the maid : volume two / edited by Francoise Quesnay.

A man wearing a white dress at "Jays concert party".

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A man in drag, wearing a large hat and veil, posing in a garden.

Total transformation.

Sex life of a transvestite / by Larry Maddock (as told to him by Leonard Wheeler).

Tales of the maid : volume two / edited by Francoise Quesnay.

A man wearing a white dress at "Jays concert party".