Editing Cross-dressing (section)

====Etymology====
[[File:Faksimile-Transvestitenschein.png|thumb|A 1928 [[transvestite pass]] allowing [[Gert Katter]], a female-to-male [[trans man]] who was one of Hirschfeld's patients, to wear male clothing.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Taylor |first1=Michael T. |last2=Timm |first2=Annette |last3=Herrn |first3=Rainer |title=Not Straight from Germany: Sexual Publics and Sexual Citizenship Since Magnus Hirschfeld |date=30 October 2017 |publisher=University of Michigan Press |isbn=978-0-472-13035-1 |page=44 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WS9ADwAAQBAJ&pg=PA44 |language=en}}</ref>]]

[[Magnus Hirschfeld]] coined the word ''transvestite'' (from Latin ''trans-'', "across, over" and ''vestitus'', "dressed") in his 1910 book ''[[Die Transvestiten]]'' (''Transvestites'') to refer to the sexual interest in cross-dressing.<ref name="MagnusHirschfeld">Hirschfeld, Magnus: ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=mQMbAAAAYAAJ Die Transvestiten.]'' Berlin 1910: Alfred Pulvermacher<br/>Hirschfeld, Magnus. (1910/1991). ''[https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1591021685 Transvestites: The erotic drive to cross dress.]'' (M. A. Lombardi-Nash, Trans.) Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books.</ref> He used it to describe persons who habitually and voluntarily wore clothes of the opposite sex. Hirschfeld's group of transvestites consisted of both males and females, with [[heterosexual]], [[homosexual]], [[bisexual]], and [[asexuality|asexual]] orientations.<ref name=Hirschfeld>Hirschfeld, Magnus. ''Geschlechtsverirrungen'', 10th Ed. 1992, page 142 ff.</ref>

Hirschfeld himself was not happy with the term: He believed that clothing was only an outward symbol chosen on the basis of various internal psychological situations.<ref name="MagnusHirschfeld"/> In fact, Hirschfeld helped people to achieve changes of their [[first name]] (legal given names were required to be gender-specific in [[Germany]]) and performed the first reported [[sexual reassignment surgery]]. Hirschfeld's transvestites therefore were, in today's terms, not only transvestites, but a variety of people from the [[transgender]] spectrum.<ref name="MagnusHirschfeld"/>

Hirschfeld also noticed that [[sexual arousal]] was often associated with transvestism.<ref name="MagnusHirschfeld"/> In more recent terminology, this is sometimes called [[transvestic fetishism]].<ref name=DSM-5-paraphillic/> Hirschfeld also clearly distinguished between transvestism as an expression of a person's "contra-sexual" (transgender) feelings and [[Sexual fetishism|fetishistic]] behavior, even if the latter involved wearing clothes of the other sex.<ref name="MagnusHirschfeld"/>

The use of the term {{lang|es|travesti}} meaning cross-dresser was already common in [[French language|French]] in the early 19th century,<ref>{{Cite Q|Q125754132}}, Volume II, p. 896</ref> from where it was imported into [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], with the same meaning.<ref>Porto Editora – ''[https://www.infopedia.pt/dicionarios/lingua-portuguesa/travesti travesti]'' no Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa [em linha]. Porto: [[Porto Editora]]. Accessed on 2024-05-02 20:58:24. </ref>