wartime cross-dressing Cross-dressing during times of war for various motives. Wartime cross-dressing usually involves women dressing as men to serve in all-male armies or men dressing as women to avoid being drafted into war. However, in rare cases, persons live out life postwar as the gender they dressed as, leading some researchers to refer to these individuals as transgender (the prototypical example being Albert Cashier). gender disguise wartime cross-dresser