Transvestism
Transvestism refers to the wearing of clothing and styling of the opposite sex, regardless of sexual orientation. Transsexuals can be both heterosexual and homosexual.
Transvestism is a term that was coined by Magnus Hirschfeld in 1910. He used it to describe all people who - for whatever reason - voluntarily wear clothing that is not usually worn by the gender to which they are physically assigned, i.e. both men and women.
The first distinction between transvestism and psychological transsexualism was made by Hirschfeld himself in 1923 in the last edition of his Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen (Yearbook of Sexual Intermediate Stages), in order to describe the desire of some transvestites to physically conform to the opposite sex. In 1953, Harry Benjamin took up this distinction in his article Transvestism and Transsexualism (Intl. Journal of Sexology) and established it in 1966 in his publication The Transsexual Phenomenon in Sexual Medicine. These two categories are still the best known on the transgender spectrum today.
It was also Hirschfeld who, in collaboration with the Berlin criminal investigation department, made it possible for the first time to issue an identity document for these people so that they could wear opposite-sex clothing in public largely without official or police persecution: The colloquially known transvestite licence, which was first issued in 1909.
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