transvestism

practice of dressing in a manner traditionally associated with the opposite sex
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transvestism

Summary

transvestism ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,946 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • transvestism is a type of traditional activity[2].
  • transvestism's Commons category is recorded as Transvestites[3].
  • transvestism's said to be the same as is recorded as cross-dressing[4].
  • transvestism's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Cross-dressing[5].
  • transvestism's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C94359[6].
  • transvestism's different from is recorded as travesti[7].
  • transvestism's different from is recorded as cisvestism[8].
  • transvestism's different from is recorded as transvestic fetishism[9].
  • transvestism's different from is recorded as Transvestia[10].
  • transvestism's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_1233[11].
  • transvestism's exact match is recorded as http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:1233[12].
  • transvestism's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Medicine[13].
  • transvestism's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject LGBTQ+ studies[14].

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Definition and Type

transvestism is a type of traditional activity[2].

Why It Matters

transvestism ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,946 views/month).[1] transvestism has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] transvestism is known by 57 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . Identifiers.org. registry.identifiers.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from travesti, cisvestism, transvestic fetishism +1
    Said to be the same as cross-dressing
    Subclass of
    On focus list of wikimedia project WikiProject Medicine, WikiProject LGBTQ+ studies
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|9 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 3439, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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