Information about crossdressing

If you type

‘CiCi The hardest thing in the world’

into your web browser you get a wonderful short TEDxUCR talk by CiCi who talks about what many of us go through, I watched it when I first started letting this part of me out. It drove me to tears knowing there was somebody who had been along the road I was facing.

B x

This is good place to start...

https://allaboutcd.com/10-misconceptions-about-crossdressers/

Hi Tommie,

This is the way I think about it:

Crossdressing is about clothing and appearance.
Gay, bi, straight is about sexual preference.
Transgender is about gender identification.
Transition can be physical and/or social.
Promiscuity is about none of the above.
Queer is anything outside of cis-binary culture.

I identify as nonbinary, and therefore that puts me on the transgender spectrum. I do not intend to transition physically, but I am transitioning socially. I wear women's clothing and a mix of women's and men's clothing. I am married to a cis-female. I am bisexual, but non-promiscuous.

Hope this helps.

- Robyn

I loved this video! Thanks so much for the tip, Bianca!

Some other points based on my observations, but these are not absolute:

• The vast majority of crossdressers are heterosexual men.
• Transgender people can have any sexual orientation that cisgender people have.
• Some (and emphasize on “some”) crossdressers do eventually realize that they are actually transgender. I’ve never seen any data, but anecdotally what I’ve seen here and on 1 or 2 other sites, it would appear to be a relatively small percentage.
• Again anecdotally, crossdressers tend to either dress at home or go out dressed for specific events. They tend not to be dressed a high percentage of the time. Trans folks who are out tend to be dressed nearly always, if not full time.
• In general, trans folks view the world continuously from the perspective of their target gender.
• If crossdressers do that, it would likely be temporary and related to the time that they spend dressed.

JJ

This is a great article - Thank you

Nicely put Robyn

Thanks , concise and to the point

Hi Tommie,

The book "Living with Crossdressing" by Savannah Hauk is available on Amazon and is a decent read on the subject.

Hugs,

Michelle

i have that book and is a great book to get for more info

Yes, I also found it to be a good read. She had a sequel to it now too.

I agree with the other respondents that "Living with Crossdressing" is a very valuable book to read when you have questions about crossdressing.

Nicely put Robyn, love the comment saying you have not physically transitioned but have socially transitioned, love it.

B x

Sexual preference is not accurate as it suggests that one could do either, but there is a preference. Sexual orientation is the more accurate phrase.