It was the first time I had ever been to that particular club. There was an admission charge for men, but the t-girls and cross-dressers were admitted for free. The invitation did let it be known that there was a changing room available for crossdressers to trade their man clothes for their girl clothes. I arrived early in my man clothes but showed the guy at the door that I had my girl clothes with me and was going to change. I didn't have to pay the cover charge. I changed in the changing room. I put on my tight jeans and a long sleeve cotton shirt, my usual blond wig and gold hoop earrings. I wore strappy-black heels. I stepped out to mingle and immediately realized that I was not dressed like the other girls who were dressed in far sexier styles.
I stayed for about two hours and met some wonderful people and really cemented a relationship with one girl whom I had met a couple of times before at other events. Then I returned to the changing room, took off my makeup, and got back into my man clothes to head home. As I was leaving, I stopped near the entrance and got involved in a conversation. There was a different person at the door than when I arrived. It was someone I had met in the club and had a conversation with not even one hour earlier. She approached me and asked me if I had paid the cover charge.
It was clear to me that she didn't realize we had already met each other in the party. "It's me," I said, "Katie. I just changed to leave."
"With the blond hair and the jeans?" She asked. "I am so sorry, I just didn't recognize you."
"Do I really look that different?" I asked.
"My god, yes!" She said. "You looked so good when I first saw you, I though you were a Cis-girl and I thought you were lost. And now, you look like a handsome man."
"Thank you," I said, blushing (btw: I cannot emphasize enough how much I love flattery!) "That's so nice to hear."
After a little more chat, I headed home. On the drive home, it hit me: Maybe I can pass. That thought, however, quickly gave way to rather convoluted train of thought. First, I dissuaded myself of the fantasy that I could actually pass as a woman. I am six feet tall in bare feet, and I would have been 6'4" in the heels I had been wearing. I have large hands and a deep voice. If I was mistaken for a cis-girl, it could only have been from a distance. For sure, once I opened my mouth to speak, my deep voice would have outed me. Second, I realized that not-passing is actually a more comfortable state of being for me. I am NOT a cis-girl. I don't want to become one either. I am very happy with my biology, my libido, and my orientation (as screwy as they are).
It was a bit of an epiphany to realize that actually passing for a cis-woman is not something I particularly desire. It would require both internal and external deception. I don't want that. I want to be pretty, and feminine, and desirable, and cute, but I don't want to be something I'm not. I am not male or female at all times. In fact, I would much rather be seen as a particularly attractive cross-dresser than as an unusually large and ill-proportioned cis-girl. Like it or not, and true or not, I feel that I rate a whole lot hotter on the spectrum of cross-dressers, than on the spectrum of cis-women!
What I want to be is an awesome cross-dresser and that's all I want to be. In my mind that's far more comfortable than being an unusually tall and masculine-proportioned woman.
Realizing this has been completely liberating. For once in my life, I like who I am.
