Definition of "transvestic" []

• Relating to transvestism. (adjective)

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• "Today, heterosexual men can be diagnosed with a supposed disorder called "transvestic fetishism" if they meet only two criteria: they have sexual fantasies about cross-dressing, and those fantasies cause "impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas.""
• "The International Foundation for Gender Education, meanwhile, put up an online petition lobbying for the removal of transvestic disorder, which they argue stigmatizes cross-dressing and pathologizes variant gender expression."
• "Transsexuals, meanwhile, want the diagnoses of "gender identity disorder" and "transvestic fetishism" that the new DSM is expected to promulgate changed to be more respectful and less judgmental."