someone who adopts the dress or manner or sexual role of the opposite sex
<noun.person> [ adj ]
receiving sexual gratification from wearing clothing of the opposite sex
<adj.all>
Shakespeare, of course, did not write his play for felines, nor for a New York setting nor a transvestite tramp, played by Hurt.
Orea and two other men also were charged in the July 1988 killing of a transvestite.
A transvestite explains why he is equipped to handle questions from both men and women.
In support of the latter line of thought, a commodity broker once told me how his boss, visiting from London, died in his hotel room after being drugged and robbed by a transvestite prostitute. Bangkok loyalists are equally ambivalent.
He is, in short, a transvestite. Shock for audience; nervous giggles from his new landlady Julie Walters; and then the sweet unfolding of a twin-track plot about passion en travestie, Pasdar bedding Miss W, and bewilderment in the boardroom.