Transvestism

Transvestism is the desire to dress in the clothes usually associated with the opposite sex.

The word was coined in 1910^[1] and Havelock Ellis studied it under the term "Eonism".

Transvestism has sometimes been condemnded by the church, quoting the Bible:

"The women shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment; for all that do so are an abomination unto the Lord thy God."^[2]

References

↑ Magnus Hirschfeld, Die Transvestiten, Berlin, Pulvermacher, 1910. Quoted in Vern L Bullough, Sex, Society and History, New York: Science History Publications, 1976. Chapter on "Transvestites in the Middle Ages"
↑ Deuteronomy 22:5

[1] Magnus Hirschfeld, Die Transvestiten, Berlin, Pulvermacher, 1910. Quoted in Vern L Bullough, Sex, Society and History, New York: Science History Publications, 1976. Chapter on "Transvestites in the Middle Ages"

[2] Deuteronomy 22:5

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