(Also known more clinically as Transvestite [TV] - archaic among the TG community). A cross-dresser is one who identifies and lives as a male, but occasionally cross-dresses on weekends, etc. They are predominantly heterosexual, often married, often parents or grandparents, and usually have no inclination to move further along the TG spectrum (i.e. hormones, living full time, etc.) Crossdressers can range from the closeted, timid types who are rather unsuccessful in appearance, to the proficient and more gregarious ones who will venture out in public crossdressed.