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ARE WE REALLY CROSSDRESSERS OR ARE REAL WOMEN THE REAL CROSSDRESSERS? AS FAR BACK IN HISTORY AS YOU CAN GO, MEN WORE SKIRTS OR SOMESORT OF MATERIAL TO COVER THEIR PRIVATES. CAVE MEN PROBABLY WORE A LEATHER TYPE CLOTH WHEN RUNNING THROUGH THE WOODS HUNTING FOOD. WARRIORS WO RE A METAL TYPE SKIRTS WHILE FIGHTING A WAR. JESUS WORE A GOWN. SCOTTSMEN WORE SKIRTS. ALL THROUGH OUT HISTORY MEN HAVE BEEN WEARING SOME SORT OF SKIRT OR DRESS. THE FIRST PAIR OF PANTS WERE INVENTED BY A WOMAN. SO IF PANTS WERE INVENTED BY A WOMEN DOES THAT MEAN THEY WERE MADE FOR MEN? PANTS WERE MADE AND USED FOR HORSEBACK RIDING FOR BOTH MEN AND WOMEN. WHY SHOULD WE GIVE UP OUR SKIRTS OR DRESSES WHEN THEY WERE A NORM?
Hi Rachel, I'm just me. I wear what I like and what keeps me warm and protected and happy and not arrested. I don't really worry about what all the rest do. Marg
In the age we live in men like myself who love to dress in clothes designed for a woman's form. Maybe centuries ago we would not be considered a crossdresser but we are in 2025. Genetic women get away with wearing clothes designed specifically men get away with dressing for comfort. Myself I also dress for comfort in lingerie skirts blouses and dresses also therefor why am I labeled. To be honest call me what you want I love to be in my skirts dresses and heels.
Crossdressing is wearing the clothing of the opposite sex or gender, but if you express yourself as that gender while dressed, are you really crossdressing?
I am a male who likes to wear women's things, and am still male when I do, so yes, I am a CD, though I prefer to use the term en femme. Those who truely feel femme when dressed techically are not CDs.
As the old candy bar commerial went, "Some days you feel like a nut, somedays you don't."
Crossdressing is a new term, and all those items we love to wear are usually identified with biological women, certainly I don’t know the fuss as many women wear male garments and there is absolutely no noise.
I read an article written by a fellow crossdresser who is in a relationship with a woman, she said that in reality we are all transgender people, it for each one of us to decide, my opinion.
i just want to add that I dress occasionally and I just love the feeling of being a woman and mingling with the public doing ordinary things.
Having gender dysphoria I'm a female in a male body I consider myself a woman. I don't t really feel like I'm crossdressing , it just feels natural to me when I get dressed as Allison.
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Historically it would appear that men wore 'dresses' or 'skirts' if viewed by todays standards. Loosely the facts indicate that womens styles were different in small ways and of course the social groups and countries would denote what males and females wore.
Today you see women wearing shirts and pants and in most cases they are made for women in the cut, buttoning and zipping. Men are now able to wear flowery shirts and other patterns that were once never to be seen on men.
My answer is that a person who intentionally wears clothes that are made and designed for the opposite sex would be considered as crossdressers although these days other terms are availbale....
So the term CrossDresser implies that you're Dressing Across from the norm. So if you identify as male, and you dress in clothes that are not considered the norm for men but are for women, within your own time period and its own context, then you are, effectively CrossDressing. Now, whether you choose to make this activity a part of your identity is up to you, but unless you're out there wearing period-accurate men's skirts, I don't think this line of thought holds up very well.
This is especially the case when you throw in makeup, wigs, breastforms, etc, with the explicit intent of looking as the opposite sex.
And, just for clarity, people who do not identify as male are not necessarily engaging in CDing per se, as they're using clothes that would be the norm for them - though there's really nothing stopping such folks from identifying as such.
I once wore a shirt with a lacy plaquet and lacy trumpet sleeves, along with pants with no pockets. Was I crossdressing? No, it was an Elizabethan nobleman outfit.
I regularly wear women's skinny leg jeans, a woman's solid color tee shirt, panties, women's low rise socks, and women's flats. But for the most part they (the outerwear) look like they could be menswear Am I crossdressing?
The term crossdressing refers to dressing in clothes of the opposite gender according to "normal" cultural standards, which includes not only location and social group but also time period. Men wear bathrobes (wrap dress?) or a towel around their waist (isn't that a skirt?) after getting out of a shower, and since these are cultural norms, they're not crossdressing. Designers are often having men in skirts in their fashion shows, although few men would actually buy these.
So I say since we are wearing clothes usually worn by women in our society and our time, we are crossdressing.