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You talk in the book about how we've evolved in how we look about gender identity, yet "transvestism" is still in the DSM.

Others hit back, with Nick Cohen suggesting the Telegraph review misrepresented a novel in which “transvestism barely features”.

Like Dragman’s alter ego August, he discovered his transvestism after trying on a woman’s stocking that he found down the back of a sofa at the age of 19.

There’s something about transvestism and drag in the Bible, I swear it.

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare Fake and mistaken identities are central to Shakespeare’s comedy, which touches on themes of sexual identity, transvestism, same-sex relationships and indeed the nature and value of gender itself.