Jacques, yes. In the LGBTQ community crossdresser is commonly understood to mean “a man who uses women’s clothes for sexual pleasure”. On the “colloquial” scale, most of us who do it for some kind of self expression would be gender fluid, bigender, or somewhere on the “trans” scale (which includes non-transitioning trans people). Don’t ask me why the crossdressing community uses the verbiage differently. I’m guessing because so many are adamantly “not gay” that they never really circulated with the greater LGBTQ community and so developed their own parlance.

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All sexual arousal is fetishistic in the sense that there is always some thing that triggers arousal. The thing could be an object, an idea, a quality, a look, etc. or a combination of these things. What we usually associate with fetishes or paraphilias are when those things are unusual or extreme. Fetishistic crossdressing is so steeped in shame and denial that I suggest that one shouldn't ask themselves if it's a fetish, ask your wife.
This wouldn’t be absolutely true, as the definition of fetish is an ABNORMAL attachment to an object, idea, etc.