Sweetdreams

I'm not being critical of you, but I could not find a reference for a book by that name "Resource guide to coming out for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans" in your post. There are a couple that sound similar.

If you could please provide author and publisher for reference in this thread.

HISTORICAL NOTES
Mangnus Hirschfeld coined the word transvestite in 1910 (from Latin trans-, "across, over" and vestitus, "dressed") to refer to the sexual interest in cross-dressing. (yes the original meaning included a sexual aspect) He used it to describe persons who habitually and voluntarily wore clothes of the opposite sex. Hirschfeld's group of transvestites consisted of both males and females, with heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, and asexual orientations.Hirschfeld himself was not happy with the term: He believed that clothing was only an outward symbol chosen on the basis of various internal psychological situations.(gender view vs sex orientation) In fact, Hirschfeld helped people to achieve the very first name changes (legal given names were and are required to be gender-specific in Germany ) and performed the first reported sexual reassignment surgery. Hirschfeld's transvestites therefore were, in today's terms, not only transvestites, but a variety of people from the transgender spectrum. Hirschfeld also noticed that sexual arousal was often (but not always) associated with transvestism. In more recent terminology, this is sometimes called now called transvestic fetishism. Hirschfeld also clearly distinguished between transvestism as an expression of a person's "contra-sexual" (transgender) feelings and sometimes fetishistic behavior, even if the latter involved wearing clothes of the other sex.


Not all Cross-dressers identify as the gender of their birth.

So the meanings of words do change over time and to view people who are cross-dressers or who are transgendered as trasvestic fetishists is inaccurate.


For me your definitions are inaccurate and to answer your question, No using clothing strictly as an arousal component has always been a no, am i missing something ?