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transvestism: see homosexuality homosexuality, a term created by 19th cent. theorists to describe a sexual and emotional interest in members of one's own sex. Today a person is often said to have a homosexual or a heterosexual orientation, a description intended to defuse some of the long-standing ..... Click the link for more information. . Transvestism Klinger, Cpl. dresses in women’s clothes to try to win discharge from the army. [Am. TV: M ° A ° S ° H in Terrace] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Uniforms can signify order, conformity, and discipline, but they can also be fetishized to convey alternate moral values through pornography, transvestism, or vaudeville. This list includes "instability, stubbornness, excessive dependence, despotic authoritarianism, exaggerated self-worship, I narcissism, child of alcoholic parents, or dysfunctional family, transvestism, an explosive personality, especially i fit can be linked to serious psychic illness, superficiality, simple naivete, light mindedness, lack of common sense, and incompatibility. After Hirschfeld (1910) medicalized transvestism and transsexualism, clinicians attempted through psychodynamic and behavior therapy to change transsexuals' gender identity to make it match their sex assigned at birth (for a review see Gelder & Marks, 1969, or Kuiper, 1991). |
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