Anomalies Are Not Always Wrong

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object, whether it be clothing, shoes, or what. This can simply be called a fetish. The reasoning behind the few cases reported of female transvestism is explained in the following statement. "The culture apparently permits a greater range of fashion to women. The male transvestite wears female undergarments and uses makeup to achieve a female appearance" (Feinbloom 17). The only reason transvestites do not cross-dress for is to "transform themselves temporarily into an entity that more closely matches their own identity" (Brown 36). This is a description of why a transsexual would cross-dress. This is the difference between transvestites and transsexuals. Transvestites feel that their assigned gender is "correct" for them, and transsexuals do not feel that theirs is necessarily "correct". This mind and body incongruity of the transsexual has also been recently referred to as gender identity disorder (GID).
Male cross-dressing can be divided into three groups: homosexual ...

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in Docter 55).

Transsexuals wear clothes of the opposite sex just like transvestites but for different reasons. "A transvestite man enjoys having a penis and derives sexual gratification from it. A transsexual man wants to become--indeed, feels that he really is--a woman" (Carlson 382). They hate their penis and want to get rid of it. "The transsexual male or female perceives his or her gender identity as incongruous with the anatomical reality and actively seeks to resolve the conflict through sex-reassignment surgery" (Feinbloom 23, 24). Surgery is usually the last step in the "change" of the transsexual. These feelings of not being "right" are found as early as childhood and ...

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