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== Film ==

* All three protagonists of ''[[The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert]]'', to varying degrees. Terrence Stamp plays a hard-drinking but patient transsexual, Guy Pearce a bitchy, high-strung [[Performance Artist]], and Hugo Weaving is the [[Shrinking Violet|timid, sweet-natured drag]] queen who persuades them to do a cabaret act in the middle of the desert. [[Role Association|That breaking sound you heard was your brain.]]

* ''To Wong Fu, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar'' has John Leguizamo, Patrick Swayze, and ''[[~~WTH?~~ Casting Agency|Wesley Snipes]]'' all as crossdressing drag queens. Vida and [[Odd Name Out|Noxeema]] even convince Chi-Chi to give up the boy she has a crush on to the girl in town that likes him, as it [[Unsettling Gender Reveal|wouldn't be fair to him]].

* ''To Wong Fu, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar'' has John Leguizamo, Patrick Swayze, and ''[[What the Hell, Casting Agency?|Wesley Snipes]]'' all as crossdressing drag queens. Vida and [[Odd Name Out|Noxeema]] even convince Chi-Chi to give up the boy she has a crush on to the girl in town that likes him, as it [[Unsettling Gender Reveal|wouldn't be fair to him]].

* [[The Fifties]] comedy film ''[[Some Like It Hot]]''. Originally Joe and Jerry did it to escape the Mafia, but they kept up the act... and Jerry [[If It's You It's Okay|took his new role very seriously]].

* In Takashi Kitano's ''Zatôichi'', Geisha Seitaro 'Osei' Naruto is actualy a man.

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** In S4E15 ("Chick Like Me"), Cory plans on dressing as a girl to school in order to find out how life is different for female students and male students. He turns out to have too masculine of a walk, so Shawn tries teaching him how to act female, getting it "surprisingly on the nose" according to Topanga. When he shows Cory how to walk like a woman and gets it perfectly, Cory and Topanga decide that Shawn should be the one to dress like a woman for the day. He turns out to be a ''babe''. He also has a preferred "female" name (Veronica) and admits to having thought about doing this ''a lot'' before Cory ever decided to write the article.

** In the much later episode "What a Drag", Eric Matthews decides that the only way for him and his best friend to avoid a local psycho and his gang, after almost getting them arrested, is to crossdress. They ''immediately'' turn to Shawn for help, and Shawn gives them a whole series of tips on how to crossdress correctly, so he clearly hasn't stopped since. Eric also decides to continue crossdressing after the episode ends, just for his own sake. Notably, both characters are not only heterosexuals, they are actually three of the show's most prolific flirters.

* Max Klinger on ''[[M*A*S*H|Mash]]'' was a wholesome, if definitely not attractive or believably female, crossdresser. He crossdressed in order to get a Section-8 "insanity" discharge from the Army. When Radar left, Klinger became clerk and dropped his cross-dressing gig. However, having worn women's clothing for so long he found that his body had gotten used to the feel and he developed a rash unless he wore female underwear under his uniform. There was a kind of 'don't ask-don't' tell policy about it.

* Max Klinger on ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|Mash]]'' was a wholesome, if definitely not attractive or believably female, crossdresser. He crossdressed in order to get a Section-8 "insanity" discharge from the Army. When Radar left, Klinger became clerk and dropped his cross-dressing gig. However, having worn women's clothing for so long he found that his body had gotten used to the feel and he developed a rash unless he wore female underwear under his uniform. There was a kind of 'don't ask-don't' tell policy about it.

* On ''[[Hill Street Blues]],'' Jeffry Tambor played a cross-dressing lawyer who was doing so on advice from his psychiatrist to "resolve his feminine-identity issues." (The "cure" worked, and the same lawyer later became a highly-respected judge on the series).

* DEA Agent "Denise" Bryson on ''[[Twin Peaks]]'', played by David Duchovny. (Who, as it turns out, has ''[[Attractive Bent Gender|really nice legs]]''.) Also a rare case of a heterosexual crossdresser on network TV.

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*** She has no name in Japan, and internationally she's been changed into a girl. Bob, another cat, is still a boy though and he wears a long floral "shirt".

** Also, Gracie is a guy in the Japanese versions.

* In ''[[~~Kira Kira (visual novel)~~|Kira Kira]]'', Shika is forced to cross dress against his will. Interestingly enough, despite getting more male fans than the real girls in the band, people do catch on that he's a guy through things such as the shape of his hands. He's quite relieved when he's allowed to stop not just because he was tired of getting hit on/thought of as a pervert because he ''was starting to get used to it.'' He's still a wholesome crossdresser five years later, in Curtain Call.

* In ''[[Kirakira|Kira Kira]]'', Shika is forced to cross dress against his will. Interestingly enough, despite getting more male fans than the real girls in the band, people do catch on that he's a guy through things such as the shape of his hands. He's quite relieved when he's allowed to stop not just because he was tired of getting hit on/thought of as a pervert because he ''was starting to get used to it.'' He's still a wholesome crossdresser five years later, in Curtain Call.

* In ''Leisure Suit Larry III'', the main character is able to dress up in a silly show-girl outfit and thus turn on a female lawyer who likes to wear masculine underwear ("I had no idea you liked cross-dressing too!") like singlets and boxer shorts.

** Also, in ''[[Leisure Suit Larry 2]]', you need to go to great lengths to dress up as a convincing girl (getting waxed, having your hair chemically altered to become long, blonde and curly, wearing a bikini swimsuit and padding out the breasts) to bypass some KGB operatives.

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* Parodied in ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' when avowed pervert (and frequent [[Gender Bender]]) Tedd is teased about trading school uniforms with Susan he vehemently protests that "I do not crossdress in women's clothing!" Susan muses that technically this is true.

* Dana and other Elle-Boys in the ''[[Jet Dream (webcomic)|Jet Dream]]'' [[Remix Comic]] always dress as females, but are fairly chaste and strictly heterosexual, apparently due to the (fictional) publisher's misguided attempt to pass the [[Comics Code]] and/or [[Author Appeal|Publisher Appeal]].

* [[~~Two Kinds~~]] has Natani, who literally has a male soul after her own was magically demolished. The conflict of male mind versus female instinct is an ongoing plotline, especially in regards with Natani's relationship with Keith.

* [[Twokinds]] has Natani, who literally has a male soul after her own was magically demolished. The conflict of male mind versus female instinct is an ongoing plotline, especially in regards with Natani's relationship with Keith.

* In [[Umlaut House]] 1 and 2 there are a few occasions where Volair and Pierce dress in drag (like father like son). Plus that one time Rick switched his prosthetic body with a female one so he could pretend to be a woman for Jake's parents. Male cheerleading captain Jack Fusselton on the other hand wears a woman's outfit as a form of psychological warfare (and unlike the other examples is straight).

* [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws9/ Darren] from [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/ Girls With Slingshots]

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** Once, puppies tore up all of Bart's socks, forcing him to wear a frilly pink pair of Lisa's. He also wears pink culottes because "Hey, I gotta accessorize."

* Unusually for a children's show (especially a Disney one), [[The Weekenders]] twice implies that Carver is a cross dresser when his friends catch him in possession of girls' clothing.

* [[All Grown Up]] has Phil dressed as his twin sister Lil. He seems to develop a crush on [[Ho Yay|another boy]].

* [[All Grown Up!]] has Phil dressed as his twin sister Lil. He seems to develop a crush on [[Ho Yay|another boy]].