transvestismn.

1913 H. Ellis in Alienist & Neurologist Aug. 249 The next case presents us with a fully developed example of cross-dressing or transvestism, as understood by Hirschfeld.

1938 Spectator 2 Dec. 962/1 So unimportant is the sexual element that transvestism is common in many dance-forms [in Bali] and produces no feeling of embarrassment.

1977 E. J. Trimmer et al. Visual Dict. Sex (1978) xix. 199 The most common cases of transvestism are heterosexual men leading otherwise conventional sex lives.

1993 D. Callaghan in R. S. White Twelfth Night (1996) vi. 150 No antitheatricalist would have been mollified by the suggestion that if female actresses played women, the evil of stage transvestism might happily be avoided.

2019 Times 10 Dec. 12/2 A grieving woman gets to know the husband of her dead best friend, and helps him come to terms with his transvestism.

1916 A. R. Hale Eden Sphinx 164 Our American [feminist] agitators..appear to be..the advocates of a political and industrial transvestism which if generally adopted would lead inevitably to racial and national decay.

1964 Punch 16 Sept. 401/1 We have seen Tories and Socialists parading in each other's clothes, but this ideological transvestism does no more than disguise the hard bony structure of the two aspects of freedom.

2010 M. D. Sterling Babylon East i. 51 A sort of ethnic transvestism, whereby a [sumo] wrestler..from Hawaii, becomes Japanese by taking a Japanese name and by mastering the set of practices..associated with this perhaps most Japanese of sports.