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Cross-dresser : Cross dressingA cross-dresser (sometimes called a transvestite) is any person who wears the clothing of the opposite gender, for any reason. Specific groups within the group of cross-dressers are (among others) drag queens, drag kings, transvestic fetishists. Cross-dressing is one type of transgender behaviour.While some cross-dressers may have no desire or intention of adopting other behaviors or practices common to the gender indicated by their choice of clothes, many cross-dressers endeavor to project a complete illusion of belonging to the opposite sex, down to mannerisms, speech patterns, and emulation of sexual characteristics - this is known as passing. Others use a more "mixed" approach, as for instance a man who may wear both a dress and a beard - this is sometimes known as genderfuck. Sexual preferences among cross-dressers vary as much as they do in the general population. However, most male-bodied cross-dressers prefer female partners. So do most female-bodied.
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Some people use the term cross-dresser to refer exclusively to people who wear clothes of the opposite gender who are not transvestic fetishists or doing drag.
Male goths may wear visible make-up, long hair and lace blouses, and even dresses. Within the goth subculture this isn't viewed as cross-dressing.
Some sketch shows, such as League of Gentlemen[?] and Kids in the Hall routinely feature cross-dressing for comic effect.
Some stories have an element of forced feminisation in them, were a man is forced to wear female clothing, or pretend to be a female, often as part of some humiliation.
Female masking[?] is a special form of crossdressing where female clothing and behaviour are combined with female head/face masks, typically made from Latex.
Historically, and still in some parts of the world or in specific situations, cross-dressing occurs for reasons not (or not necessarily) related to the ones mentioned above:
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silent throngs that surround them, "the great cloud of witnesses"?
Secrets of the green pathways that lead up through the blue silent
the immortals?
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happy soul listening so intently that it shall catch the low,
wonderful secret, while the silver shallop of the moon is becalmed
had floated down through the clear ocean waves of the sky to
- and a clear star looks out over the glowing rose of the western
searching if it be worthy of the great trust.
Maybe it will be in the fresh dawning of the day, that the great
the light.
Maybe it will be in the midst of the storm - a mighty voice borne
demanding the hearer to listen.
Oh! if we were only good enough, only pure enough, what might not
who, who, shall be the happy soul that shall, at the time, be
on 'em, and how I didn't. For there I wuz a settin in my own
for the "World" hadn't come, and he wuz restless and ill at ease,
the same old Smedleys, was a hantin' of me, the same old hant, and
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under the sun do you want to pound the Smedleys for? I should
he, "the old woman couldn't stand any poundin' at all, without
any of 'em. Why, what has got into you? I never knew you to
anything to do with it. If you want 'em pounded you must get
a pound of different things to eat and drink and carry it to 'em,
'em to stay in the coldest of the weather."
"Oh!" says he, with a relieved look. "That's a different thing.
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