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The following are subtropes of [[Cross Dresser]]:
* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: Crossdressing characters (of either sex) presented in a positive (or at least neutral) way. Often presented as [[Attractive Bent Gender|physically attractive]].
* [[Creepy Crossdresser]]: Crossdressing characters (nearly always men) played for weirdness, creepiness, [[Squick]] value, or to show that a character is evil or deranged.
* [[Disguised in Drag]]: Men disguise themselves as women.
* [[Sweet Polly Oliver]]: Women disguise themselves as men. See [[Samus Is a Girl]] for the reveal.
* [[Recursive Crossdressing]]: Women disguise themselves as men disguised as women, vice versa, or any permutations thereof.
* [[Dragged Into Drag]]: Girls love helping boys dress as girls.
* [[Sweet on Polly Oliver]]: Straight guys find another guy disturbingly attractive... because "he" is actually a girl.
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== Live Action TV ==
* Parodied on ''[[Little Britain]]'', which featured Emily and Florence, who would dress and attempt to act [[Born in the Wrong Century|like 19th century women]] and insisted that they were ''lay-dees''. Florence has a
* Mr Richard McCourt dancing the tango in a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06szyd9ccOQ&t=5m50s very fetching dress] on ''[[Dick and Dom in da Bungalow]]''
* British television has a proud tradition of men dressing as women for comedy. It probably goes back to how men (or boys) played female roles in Shakespeare's day.
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** [[A Bit of Fry and Laurie]] did this all the time, too.
* ''[[Noah's Arc]]'': Romeo borders between this and a VERY effeminate man.
* ''[[Boy Meets World]]'' reveals that main character Shawn Hunter is a wannabe crossdresser. In ''Chick Like Me'' s4e13, he tries to convince Cory to crossdress for an article about how differently boys and girls are treated. When he tries coaching Cory, Topanga
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