MTF cross-dressing

MTF cross-dressing(or men dressed as women, passing as female ) is the act of male wearing female clothing and other accoutrements commonly associated with the female sex within a particular society. MTF cross-dressing is most common crossdressing.
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History
Cross-dressing also has a long history in Western theatre, and later, in films. Such roles were in the past referred to as "skirt" roles, to distinguish them from FTM cross-dressing breeches roles.
During a time when it was considered unacceptable for women to appear onstage, Elizabethan theatre employed boys dressed as women for many female roles. Academic research into the contemporary attitudes towards the practise have yielded a variety of interpretations. Academics have argued that "an all-male acting troupe was the natural and unremarkable product of a culture whose conception of gender was "teleologically male""; they have also argued that contemporary protests against the practise (believing it made young actors "effeminate") reflected "deepseated fears that the self was not stable and fixed but unstable and monstrous and infinitely malleable unless strictly controlled.
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Japan
Japan has a centuries-old tradition of male kabuki theatre actors cross-dressing onstage. Transgendered men (and more rarely, women) were also "conspicuous" in Tokyo's gei (gay) bar and club subculture in the pre- and post-World War II period. By the 1950s, publications concerning MTF cross-dressing were in circulation, advertising themselves as aimed at the "study" of the phenomenon. Fully-fledged "commercial" magazines aimed at cross-dressing 'hobbyists' began publishing after the launch of the first such magazine, Queen, in 1980. It was affiliated with the Elizabeth Club, which opened branch clubs in several Tokyo suburbs and other cities.

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