Colours & Meanings Traditional colour for baby boys Traditional colour for baby girls About The Crossdressing flag feature a saltire upon a hot pink and vibrant blue field, where half of the saltire is hot pink (and placed upon the vibrant blue field), and the other half is vibrant blue (and placed upon the hot […]

the act of deliberately disrupting, challenging or exaggerating gender norms, presentation and expectation. Such examples would be to adopt a presentation that incorporates hyper-masculine/hyper-feminine elements – for examples, wearing a beard and having enlarged breasts and makeup. Genderfuck balls are common examples of events where participants are encouraged to deliberately break-down, ‘fuck with’ and challenge […]

a term that gained popularity in the 1980s to describe individuals who were androgynous and/or deliberately played with notions of gender presentation and gender norms. Such individuals were not necessarily cross-dressers or transvestites; nor did they necessarily identify as nonbinary or transgender. See also: genderfuck.

The act of wearing clothes traditionally associated with a gender different from one’s own. A person who participates in cross-dressing is known as a cross-dresser; although they may not necessarily identify as transgender. Related: gender-bender; transvestite.

An individual who cross-dresses; e.g. a man who wears clothes traditionally associated and worn by women. In traditional psychological context, a transvestite is usually defined as a person – typically a heterosexual, cisgender male – who dresses in female clothing for sexual pleasure or gratification. The word can be potentially problematic when transvestitism is conflated […]

an individual who wears the clothes of another gender/sex. Such individuals may not identify as transgender or nonbinary, they may consider themselves cisgender. They may, or may not, label themselves a transvestite. Crossdressers may also have separate personas and/or names for when they are cross-dressing; this may not take the form of drag either. People cross-dress for a range of […]