Travesti (gender identity)

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Common in Latin America, the Portuguese and Spanish-language term travesti (Spanish pronunciation: [tɾaˈβesti]; Portuguese pronunciation: [tɾavesˈtʃi]) can either be used synonymously with the English transgender, or used to specifically designate people who were assigned male at birth and develop a feminine gender identity. Other terms have been invented and are used in South America in an attempt to further distinguish it from cross-dressing, drag, and pathologizing connotations. In Spain, the term was used in a similar way during the Franco era, but it was replaced with the advent of the medical model of transsexuality in the late 1980s and early 1990s, in order to rule out negative stereotypes. The arrival of these concepts occurred later in Latin America than in Europe, so the concept of travesti lasted, with various connotations. The word "travesti", originally pejorative in nature, was reappropriated by Peruvian, Brazilian, and Argentine activists, as it has a regional specificity...

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