Crossdress

Cross dressing is nothing more and nothing less than the act of wearing clothing commonly associated with the other gender within a particular society, and women in the West do it on a day to day basis and nobody bats an eyelid, but if a man does something similar then he's almost universally branded as a homosexual.

Women that wear pants or jeans, or t-shirts and boots are not immediately thought to be lesbian, but let any man but a Scotsman put on a skirt and every one will call him a pansy or a sissy.

Almost every society throughout history distinguished between the male and female gender by way of the style, color, or type of clothing that they wore, and there were almost always a set of norms, views, guidelines, and even laws that defined what type of clothing was appropriate for each gender, and there has always been much speculation as to why people cross-dress.

What seems clear though, is that although many men cross-dress because it gives them a sexual thrill, they don't do it because they want to be women, and hardly any cross dressers go on to become transvestites.