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Packing is wearing padding or a phallic object in the front of the pants or underwear to give the appearance of having a penis [1] or bulge. [2] Packing is commonly practiced by trans men . People who cross-dress as male may also "pack".
A 1928 transvestite pass allowing Gert Katter, a female-to-male trans man who was one of Hirschfeld's patients, to wear male clothing. [4] Magnus Hirschfeld coined the word transvestite (from Latin trans-, "across, over" and vestitus, "dressed") in his 1910 book Die Transvestiten (Transvestites) to refer to the sexual interest in cross-dressing ...
Cross-dressing is the act of wearing clothes traditionally or stereotypically associated with a different gender. [2] From as early as pre-modern history, cross-dressing has been practiced in order to disguise, comfort, entertain, and express oneself.
It is usually worn by people who were assigned male at birth (AMAB) who wish to wear feminine clothing, including some trans women and some gender-non-conforming and nonbinary people. Since the 2010s, underwear manufacturers have begun to design underwear with the same function as gaffs. [ 2 ]
The history of cross-dressing in the United States is quite complicated as the title of 'cross-dresser' has been historically been utilized as an umbrella term for varying identities such as cisgender people who dressed in the other gender's clothing, transgender people, and intersex people who dress in both genders' clothing. [24]
Onorata Rodiani (1403–1452) was an Italian mercenary who served as a cavalry soldier, disguised in male clothing and with a male name, under a condottieri (freelance commander) named Oldrado Lampugnano beginning in 1423. [2]
Casa Susanna was a popular weekend destination in Jewett, New York in the United States, [1] for cross-dressing men and transgender women in the early 1960s. [2] The bungalow camp was run by Susanna Valenti [ 3 ] and her wife Maria, who also ran a wig store in town.
A dominant woman and a submissive man practicing feminization. Feminization or feminisation, sometimes forced feminization (shortened to forcefem or forced femme), [1] [2] and also known as sissification, [3] is a practice in dominance and submission or kink subcultures, involving reversal of gender roles and making a submissive male take on a feminine role, which includes cross-dressing.