| Cross-dressing |
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| History of cross-dressing |
| Breeches role · Breeching Travesti · In film and television In wartime · Pantomime dame |
| Key elements |
| As a transgender identity Passing · Transvestism |
| Modern drag culture |
| Ball culture · Drag Drag king · Drag pageantry Drag queen · Faux queen List of drag queens |
| Sexual aspects |
| Autoandrophilia · Autogynephilia Feminization · Pinafore eroticism Transvestic fetishism Sissy · Transgender sexuality |
| Sexual attraction to cross-dressers |
| Andromimetophilia Gynemimetophilia |
| Other aspects |
| Bacha posh · Crossplay En femme Female masking Girlfag and guydyke Gender disguise |
| Passing as male |
| Breast binding · Packing |
| Passing as female |
| Cleavage enhancement Hip and buttock padding |
| Organizations |
| Tri-Ess |
| Books |
| My Husband Betty She's Not The Man I Married |
Helen Boyd (1969) is the pen name of Gail Kramer, the American author of two books[1] about her relationship with her transgender partner. Her partner is referred to in both books as "Betty Crow", though this is also a pseudonym.
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Helen Boyd graduated Phi Beta Kappa from The City College of New York in 1995 with a degree in literature. She has been a guest speaker at trans conferences, including the IFGE, First Event[2], Fantasia Fair, Southern Comfort, the Chicago Be-All, and also at special events like Trans Issues Week at Yale University. Helen and Betty have spoken about LGBT marriage on PBS’s In The Life.[3][4] As of 2011, she is also a Lecturer of Gender and Freshman Studies at Lawrence University[5].
Boyd also runs the mHB Forums, a message board for the discussion of crossdressing- and transgender-related topics. The community associated with the board is noted for its willingness to debate sacred cows of the transgender community.
My Husband Betty (2004, Thunder's Mouth Press, ISBN 1-56025-515-3) is a non-fiction book by author Helen Boyd about crossdressers and their partners. It was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award.
Unlike many other books about the topic of crossdressing, it is written specifically from the partner's point of view by a partner and takes a distinctively feminist approach. Although the author's husband was a crossdresser at the time of publication, she now considers herself "trans", a word chosen specifically because it was less well defined (and therefore less restrictive) than "transgender".
Boyd's second book is She's Not the Man I Married: My Life with a Transgender Husband (Seal Press, 2007).