If it hasn't been done already in this thread, is it that time again for me to plonk down a link to Tara Hewitt's educational youtube film as to the definition of 'trans' from an official 'educator'?
4.28 onwards
there's two types of cross-dressing, you've got people that fetishisticly cross dress, so they wear clothing to get a sexual desire out of that clothing of that opposite gender.
Erm, it's generally asociated with men wearing women's underwear, erm and women's clothing. I don't know many women that wear boxer sorts and find that sexually arousing...but if you do, that's cool, because we're all very diverse.and we have diverse sexual appetites as well... [silence in the room of mainly female health care professionals! On, and Tara never expands on the second type of cross-dresser who isn't doing it for sexual purposes!]
one of the things I find qute challenging is when people stigmatise different identities and make judgements about them because of where they are,, and as long as people, someone is happy and living their lives and the way they want to, and expressing themselves, why should anyone make a judgement about that?
Transvestites, it's quite an older term but is still used about some people to talk about themselves. It generally means someone who's it's more than just clothing, it's going out and expressing themselves, in a way it's a social element, and intereacting in a different gender type to themselves, normally they may identify as male but at a weekend, or part time, might like to go out be viewed as Sarah or be viewed in a female identity.
They don't view themselves as that, it's a just an expression of part of who they are, rather than their whole identity, and often people use different language to talk about that now, but it's a historic word you might hear in use.
So that bloke (and I'm staying within guidelines here, as Tara has said directly that for cross-dressers and transvestites, their female identity isn't their whole identity) who likes to dress in women's clothes for sexual purposes, but for whom it's a little bit more than just the clothes, because it's about doing so in a social element, who don't view themselves as that [female], but it's just a part of who they are.
Gets a free pass from Glasgow Life to validate their fetish and social desire to identify as a woman occasionally.
In all women's spaces. Cos 'trans'.
Right-oh.