ABSTRACT
Female transsexualism is very rare, estimates running from one-third to one-eighth as common as in males. In the process of passing successfully as men, they dress completely in the same sort of clothes as do normal men. No one claims that female transvestism is common. It has rarely been written about, and ideas about its causes are almost as sparse as is interest in it. Still, it is an accepted condition, a form of behavior that implies a specific character structure and psychodynamics. People who have in common a similar psychodynamic quality do not therefore necessarily have a similar personality. Transvestic tendencies are ubiquitous, but not all those who cross-dress are transvestites, though they certainly are transvestic. And yet many people take it for granted that there are female transvestites. This may be because they confuse transvestic tendencies with transvestism.
