• TheMadCodger@piefed.social
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      15 hours ago

      Eh, sort of. Transvestite refers to someone who wears clothes of the opposite gender (trans = across, vestir = to clothe, to wear), and really that mainly applied to men wearing women’s clothes, because a woman wearing pants is questionable, but a man wearing a dress? There’s clearly something wrong with them!

      As clothing “norms” became more old fashioned, that word fell into disuse.