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Transgender people > Transvestites

Preferred term

Transvestites  

Definition

  • Persons who assume the dress and manner of the opposite sex for psychological gratification; for persons who impersonate women or men, generally for purposes of entertainment or comic effect, use Drag queens or Drag kings [LCSH, alt.]

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Cross-dressers, transvestites
  • Crossdressers, transvestites
  • Femmiphilliacs

Notation

  • 111823

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-RRQ95WDB-D

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