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According to Dictionary.com, the term femboy originated in the 1990s and is a compound from the words fem (an abbreviation of feminine and femme) and boy. [1] [2] One early usage can be seen in a 1992 piece by gay artist Ed Check. [3]
The term is borrowed from the modern French phrase en femme [12] [13] meaning "as a woman", Most crossdressers also use a female name whilst en femme; that is their "femme name". In the cross-dressing community the persona a man adopts when he dresses as a woman is known as his " femme self".
Otokonoko (男の娘, "male daughter" or "male girl", also pronounced as otoko no musume) is a Japanese term for men who have a culturally feminine gender expression. [1] [2] This includes, among others, males with feminine appearances, or those cross-dressing.
Drag queen arrested under anti-crossdressing laws in New York City, 1962 The birth of anti-cross-dressing laws (also known as masquerade laws and the three-article rule) [ 31 ] stemmed from the increase in non-traditional gender expression during the spread of America's frontier , and the will to reinforce the two-gender system which was ...
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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 February 2025. Dressing and acting in a style or manner traditionally associated with a different gender Not to be confused with Travesti (gender identity), Transgender, or Transvestic fetishism. Cross-dressing History of cross-dressing In wartime History of drag Rebecca Riots Casa Susanna Pantomime ...
Author, poet, first openly transgender professor at an Orthodox Jewish institution, and holds the David and Ruth Gottesman Chair in English at the Stern College for Women of Yeshiva University [280] Lady: b. ? Korean Transgender pop group active during 2005-2007 [281] Lee Lai: b. 1993 Australian she/her Cartoonist [282] Vicci Laine: b. 1960 ...
The following is a timeline of transgender history.Transgender history dates back to the first recorded instances of transgender individuals in ancient civilizations. . However, the word transgenderism did not exist until 1965 when coined by psychiatrist John F. Oliven of Columbia University in his 1965 reference work Sexual Hygiene and Pathology; [1] the timeline includes events and ...