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'''Crossdressing''' (also '''cross-dressing''') is the act of dressing as and performing a [[gender]] that is not your own, or that is different than your [[sexes#Gender assigned at birth|gender assigned at birth]], without necessarily identifying as that gender. '''Crossdresser''' (or '''cross-dresser''') is an identity that is based around the practice of crossdressing.
'''Crossdressing''' (or '''cross-dressing''') is the activity that involves dressing and acting like a person of the opposite gender.<ref>"cross-dress." The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004.</ref> Traditionally, most societies have (or have had) strict norms regarding the appropriate clothes and behaviour of each gender. Crossdressing is not a [[gender identity]], and one doesn't have to be [[transgender]] in order to be crossdresser.


== References ==
==See also==
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* [[Clothing]], which explores a variety of ways that people [[Gender expression|express their genders]] through clothing
* [[Drag]], an exaggerated performance of gender through clothing, costume, and makeup.
 
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