Transvestite is a sexual orientation of man. The term, as per dictionary, means or refers to a person or rather a man, deriving pleasure by dressing up like a girl or a woman. The term had first come into being during 1910, and was first introduced in the Hebrew Bible. The term must not be confused with terms like transgender or transsexual. Transgender means a person identifying himself or herself with the gender or the sex, which they are not by birth. A simple example will be a man identifying himself to be a woman or a woman identifying herself to be a man. On the other hand, trans sexual refers to a similar aspect, whereby a person is unhappy with the assigned sex and identifies himself or herself with some other gender and wishes to be permanently change his or her gender. However, a transvestite is not ideally a transgender or transsexual. The person can be extremely happy with his gender, and has no wish to change his gender or is not attracted to the same sex. But only, the person gets pleasure by wearing women clothes and women accessories from time to time. Th person can be interested in opposite sex as well, and it is often seen that a transvestite takes offense when called a transgender or transsexual, as for them it is derogatory. They are simply to be regarded as cross- dresser. They must not be identified with drag Queen or drag King, as the former denotes a man to be dressed like a woman for performance and the later denotes a female to be dressed as a man, for performance.

In this regard it is important to understand the definition of sexual orientation. The term sexual orientation refers to having or enduring a romantic feeling or a sexual attraction towards the people of opposite sex. In general sense, the term denotes the sexual attraction of a person, but in a more detailed sense the term identifies with the people who feel sexually attracted to the opposite sex or gender. There are four categories associated with the term, Homosexuality, Heterosexuality, Bisexuality and Asexuality.

Another important concept is Gender Dysphoria. This particular term refers to the distress and anxious behavior that is caused within a person due to his or her gender, as the person’s gender identity does not match with his or her assigned gender. This is identified as a psychological issue faced by men and women, and the medical term to denote such a difficulty is Gender Identity Disorder, and the typical expression are eating disorder, stress, frustration, depression, anxiety, social isolation and suicidal tendencies. This can be prevalent among the children as well, as the sexual orientation and the gender identity of men and women develops from an early age, and as per the Twin Study, it is often found that such people usually turn out to be Transgenders.