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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 October 2024. 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 ...
Travesti (theatre) (also spelled travesty), the portrayal of a character in a play, opera, or ballet by a performer of the opposite sex; Victorian burlesque, a genre of theatrical entertainment popular in Victorian England and New York theatre in the mid-19th century
Travestis in Salta, Argentina, in 1988. The term travesti is used in Latin America to designate people who were assigned male at birth and develop a feminine gender identity. Other terms have been invented and are used in South America in an attempt to further distinguish it from cross-dressing, drag, and pathologizing connotations.
A transvestite is a person who cross-dresses, or dresses in clothes typically associated with the gender opposite the one they were assigned at birth. [99] [100] The term transvestite is used as a synonym for the term cross-dresser, [101] [102] although cross-dresser is generally considered the preferred term.
Travesti is a theatrical character in an opera, play, or ballet performed by a performer of the opposite sex. For social reasons, female roles were played by boys or men in many early forms of theatre, and travesti roles continued to be used in several types of context even after actresses became accepted on the stage.
The term travesty (from the Italian travesti, disguised) applies to any roles sung by the opposite sex. [2] A closely related term is a skirt role, a female character to be played by a male singer, usually for comic or visual effect. These roles are often ugly stepsisters or very old women, and are not as common as trouser roles.
The word cisgender (often shortened to cis; sometimes cissexual) describes a person whose gender identity corresponds to their sex assigned at birth, i.e., someone who is not transgender. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The prefix cis- is Latin and means on this side of .
It is incorrect to use the masculine article, e.g. "O travesti Maria" because this is referring to a person of the feminine gender. In 2020, the State of São Paulo published a booklet with the following definition: [10]: 22 Travesti: a person who is born with the male sex and has a feminine gender identity. She has no discomfort with her ...