transvestite

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

The German physician Magnus Hirschfeld coined the now antiquated term "transvestite" in 1910 to define those who desired to express themselves in opposition to their sex assigned at birth.

From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2022

"If I change it, I would erase myself as a transvestite."

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

"The tourists were returning, promenading down Ocean Drive and Washington Avenue, mingling with the Latinos, gays, transvestites, crazies and kids step-dancing along the sidewalk with beatboxes to their ears."

From BBC ● May 20, 2019

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