Cross-dressing prohibitions hint transvestite prostitutes persisted in Christian Granada

Evidence

In 1523 in the same context of the Ordenanc¸as de Granada (fol. CCCXIr) is included another curious regulation concerning female dress or, more specifically, cross-dressing: men were forbidden to wear female clothing by day or night. Does this indicate that the male transvestite prostitutes of whom we hear in Nasrid Granada (and in Fez and other cities even later—Lane, for example, describes them in nineteenth-century Cairo) still were to be found in Charles V’s Granada? It seems on the face of it unlikely, but why enact such an odd piece of legislation if it was not needed? — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 382

Categorization

• QUESTION: Were male transvestite prostitutes actually still operating in Christian-era Granada, or was the 1523 law a residual or precautionary measure?
• ADDENDUM: Connects to the article on cross-cultural moral panics over dress — here a specific case of sumptuary-style policing of male cross-dressing in early modern Granada.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 382