Transformista (transformist in English) is a Spanish word to describe performance artists engaged in drag, transvesting, or crossdressing.[2][3] Sometimes the individual could live their everyday life as a transformist. It falls under the trans* umbrella, and it can also be used to designate transgender and travesti people, although these are three different terms.[4][5]
Althoug drag queen, travesti and transformista all have very close meanings, there are some differences in context. Travesti can be seen used for everyday gendernonforming people and even as a gender identity itself, drag artists are performers skilled in several artistic endeavors like lipsyncing, dancing, singing, acting, etc. While transformista (even while falling in the spectrum of drag) is more often used as a synonim for cross-dresser. [6]