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Mindful we are all pretty much like minded, can I bring up an issue with this, and it not be seen as a soapbox moment? Americans have no distinction between cross-dressers and transvestites. (And too often, TV's are synonymous with the sex trade.) When I check "recognised" publications (ie Wiki) I find some adulterous references that suggest these two are the same thing. No. In my mind, which utilises past experience and some smidgen of logic, I would offer this (and why). Cross-dressers: These are going to be people who use gender related styles or clothing to mark their style participation in neither - or both genders. If a comparison was made with colour; black and white being two extremes, the cross-dresser might have some black clothing, some white clothing (where usually people wore black or white). Almost uniquely, the cross-dresser might wear grey, making them unlike others. (Non-binary.) If compared as a sex, the cross-dresser would be androgynous, sharing an orientation involving attraction to both sexes, or to neither. A woman wearing mans shoes, or other masculine apparel isn't a transvestite. A man wearing a skirt, or a man wearing a heel, isn't a transvestite (as below). If they are not cross-dressing, what are they doing? Transvestite: To cross-over in dress (style) and look, to the point of wanting to be seen as the alternate gender to birth. For a woman to 'appear' as a man, in look and demeanour. For a man to be dressed and styled, so as to be taken for a woman. No halfway measures from either group, in trying to be received as their alternate gender. This definition, I doubt is disputed by anyone. "Drag:" Almost entirely the domain of men wearing an exaggerated version of women's (glamour) apparel, to the point of often being comedic. It's not unusual to see drag 'queens' with facial hair. The intent is not for the man to be seen as a woman, rather a man's (almost) caricature version of a glamorous woman, as played by a man. Tin hat and running shoes at the ready ..... Off we go!