Understanding The Transvestite

A transvestite belongs to one gender but likes to wear the opposite gender's clothes, as defined by cultural norms. This may also entail the use of makeup, scents, and adopting cross-gender behaviors.

The transvestite wishes to shift between gender identities on a surface level, unlike a transsexual or transgendered person who wishes to permanently change their physical form to match their identity, and unlike the intersexed, who belong simultaneously to both genders.

The transvestite's motives may have as much to do with fun, happiness and personal expression as with sex or romance, but this varies from person to person.

The transvestite may be young or old, male or female, black or white, rich or poor, etc...

Transvestites may look good or bad in their mismatched outfits, but you should be polite to them either way.

A transvestite is a man who keeps trying to put things in his pockets only to remember that there are no pockets in the dress he's wearing.

A transvestite, until recently, could have been a woman wearing pants and finding all kinds of uses for these things called pockets.

The female who adopts male behaviors is considered strong, capable, and cool, while males who adopt female behaviors are considered weak, foolish, and deceptive. This is because femininity itself is considered weak, foolish, and deceptive. Of course, this is not to say that female transvestites do not have their own hardships, just that there is a double standard, and for once it affects the men more than the women.

The psychiatric community officially believes that all transvestites are narcissistic perverts. The truth, of course, is that all humans are narcissistic perverts, but that doesn't mean we should assume that they aren't nice people.

A transvestite is a person who wants to be accepted and appreciated.