obsolete medical term transvestic fetishism 302.3 302.3 http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_1233 An ill-defined psychiatric diagnosis present in DSM-III-R, DSM-IV, and DSM-IV-TR. It was renamed transvestic disorder in DSM-V. The diagnostic criteria given were (1) individuals must be sexually aroused by the act of cross-dressing, and (2) individuals must experience significant distress or impairment – socially or occupationally – because of their behavior. Often tied to Ray Blanchard's pseudoscientific autogynephilia theory. cross-gender fetishism fetishistic cross-dressing fetishistic transvestism transvestic disorder