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Dual role transvestism

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Specialty
  
psychiatry

ICD-10
  
F64.1

Dual-role transvestism

Dual-role transvestism is the formal diagnosis used by psychologists and physicians to describe people who wear clothes of the opposite sex to experience being the opposite sex temporarily, but don't have a sexual motive or want gender reassignment surgery. The International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) list three diagnostic criteria for "Dual-role transvestism" (F64.1):

A person who is diagnosed with Dual-role transvestism should not receive a diagnosis of transvestic fetishism(F65.1),

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Dual-role transvestism Wikipedia