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transvestism

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

transvestism ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,688 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

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

Why It Matters

transvestism has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] transvestism is known by 82 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

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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. 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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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_transvestism_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{transvestism}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/transvestism}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-17}}
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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 21h ago · Vlsergey · 2026-10-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bs', 'ca', 'commons', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'e
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-multiple-properties-update:0||7 */ Deprecate ids that refer to transvestic disorder (MeSH D014190 + tree, ICD-10-CM F65.1, NCIt, UMLS, DOID:1233 + exact match), copied to th"
  2. 7w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → transvestism
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: transvestism, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289972063|transvestism (#289972063)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]"
  3. 10w ago · Ceaseless Watcher · 2026-08-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Anidb tag id → —
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-multiple-properties-update:0||4 */ Cleanup: add external ID to reference ([[User:Difool/WikidataCleanup]])"
  4. 12w ago · Charp238 · 2026-07-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Namuwiki id → 트랜스베스티즘
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Namuwiki id: 트랜스베스티즘"
  5. 21w 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 */ Yso id: 3439, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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