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  • noun Plural form of transvestite.

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Examples

  • The Transsexual Phenomenon - were viewed as more serious than those who identified as transvestites or cross dressers.

    unknown title 2009

  • The Transsexual Phenomenon - were viewed as more serious than those who identified as transvestites or cross dressers.

    unknown title 2009

  • a post on this blog that described the hookers as "transvestites" - which goes against GLAAD's standards.

    unknown title 2009

  • * I would have said "transvestites," but Lola makes a rather pointed speech on the difference between drag queens and transvestites, so I figured I'd split hairs.

    Kinky Boots moriarty6 2006

  • The number of transgender people who identify themselves in other ways such as transvestites, cross-dressers, drag kings and queens, and gender benders is unknown, according to the association, in part because the terms are so hard to define.

    Columbia Missourian: Latest Articles 2008

  • These were the transvestites who appear in the public record.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • There are vaqueros, construction workers, transsexuals and transvestites, their male suitors, round Mexican black women, guys who are probably packing guns somewhere under their leather jackets.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • Here was a queer who dared to enter the macho confines of avant-garde cinema to project scenes of transvestites acting out silent movie fantasies of themselves as Marlene Dietrich or Maria Montez.

    G. Roger Denson: Jack Smith and the Aesthetics of Camp in an Era of Political Correctness G. Roger Denson 2011

  • Alito, Roberts, and Breyer are all commie transvestites?!?!?

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Jews and Catholics on the Supreme Court? 2010

  • The walls in the Bullpen are covered with murals depicting rastas, hippies, cholos, transvestites, vaqueros, and a red-skinned devil.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

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