transvestite
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I am not gay, I am not straight, I am not a drag queen, I am not a transvestite, I am Jackie.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2025
“Each position will be occupied by the best, most capable person, be it a man, a woman, a transvestite or anything else.”
From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2024
Under the Weimar Republic, she held a transvestite certificate.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2023
Simpson, who identifies as a transvestite and not transgender, had not changed hers.
From Reuters ● May 6, 2022
Young boy slowly falling under the influence of a decadent uncle who is a transvestite.
From Checklist A complete, cumulative Checklist of lesbian, variant and homosexual fiction, in English or available in English translation, with supplements of related material, for the use of collectors, students and librarians. by Marion Zimmer Bradley
In the 1930s, transgender people were called "transvestites," a term that is offensive today but at the time approximated what's now meant by "transgender."
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2023
Or, as her brother, the poet Howard Nemerov, put it, “freaks, professional transvestites, strong men, tattooed men, the children of the very rich.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 26, 2022
Remember that transvestites and gay street people are always on the front lines and are ready to lay their lives down for the movement.
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2019
Participants have been asked to look at gays, lesbians transgender people, transvestites and/or tomboys.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2017
Beardsley’s transvestites and hermaphrodites are still marvellous to look at, but the pleasure is considerably amplified when one notices his witty references to Botticelli, Dürer, even Holbein the Younger.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 14, 2016
