PSYC 436 Lecture Notes - Gender Dysphoria, Magnus Hirschfeld, Cross-Dressing
7 Dec 2011
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Transvesticism" magnus hirschfeld, 1910 more or less introduced this term into clinical work. He used the term to denote any instance of psychologically motivated cross-dressing (got away from biological roots). In every day language, there are many terms used to denote transvestitism (drag queen, gender blender, etc. ) in the dsm 4 there is a term known as transvestic fetishism. In is clear within the psychiatric nomenclature that it is clearly there for heterosexuals. It is clear that some individuals who cross-dress do have gender dysphoria. Others are not, however, and this raises the question of whether this is a continuum, etc: psychological motivated cross dressing which probably at least one point. Working on definition of transvesticism: in the individuals life was associated with sexual arousal. If you talk to older cross dressers, their arousability goes down to cross dress at older ages. Is this just because of growing older: three principal dimensions to the cross dressing experience:
