ARE TRANSVESTITES NECESSARILY HETEROSEXUAL

A survey of 372 male cross-dressers gathered data about present and ch ildhood experiences and attitudes in light of the growing knowledge ab out transvestism. This article focuses on data related to sexual orien tation, particularly in relationship to the definition of transvestism in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the A merican Psychiatric Association. It is argued that transvestism is not necessarily a heterosexual phenomenon.