What is "crossdress"

Usage examples of "crossdress".

She took to reading, between bouts of nausea, cheap paperback accounts of true crime, serial killers stalking the lonely down I-95, a satanic cult of teenage cannibals terrorizing Fresno, the crossdressing rapist of upper Broadway, stories with the same ambivalent allure of a reptile house, dread wound into hypnotic coils vibrant with meaning, even repulsion had its own particular message to impart.

Neither Dougie nor Mooner had a washer or dryer and neither was a crossdresser, so what I was missing was underwear.