Clinicians would consider an individual who engaged in frequent cross-dressing for the purposes of sexual arousal to suffer from transvestic disorder only if the behavior caused him distress, no matter how often he engaged in cross-dressing and how sexually arousing he found it.

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According to DSM-5, for a diagnosis of transvestic disorder, the individual must experience significant distress or impairment in social, occupational or other areas of functioning due to their cross-dressing behavior, and it cannot be better explained by another mental disorder or a medical condition. The frequency or level of sexual arousal is not a determining factor in the diagnosis.

Clinicians Would Consider an Individual Who Engaged in Frequent Cross-Dressing