Just for fun and not to debate what number are you?

[Lucy_Bella]

Ranges Of Behavior:

Within the TV/TS Community, there is a wide range of behavior. Doctor Harry Benjamin (as a pioneer in gender related problems in the early 1960's) designed a scale of behavior as a guide to treatment for the TV and TS. Its six positions represent the dressing and emotional preferences of his patients.

(0) Is the so called "straight" person who has no interest in becoming an actual crossdresser.

(1) Represents the person who is thinking of becoming a crossdresser or may have been one. There is no actual crossdressing, but the person is inclined in that direction.

(2) Is considered to be a "fetishist" who may wear an item or two of clothing from the opposite sex as a means of sexual arousal.

(3) Is considered by Doctor Benjamin to be the "true transvestite." However, there seem to be four distinct variations within that category.

(3A) Is the situational crossdresser who does not really get involved in cross-gender behavior of any type except for an occasion where he is required to wear clothing of the opposite sex for some specific reason. He does not have a compulsion to crossdress.

(3B) Is the partial transvestite. He has gone beyond the realm of fetishism but does not completely crossdress. This person does not generally appear in public as a crossdresser.

(3C) Is the occasional transvestite who does dress completely and does appear in public. However, the person appears to need some sort of sanctioned event to do so, such as Halloween, Mardi Gras, or a costume party.

(3D) Is the person who dresses as completely as possible and as often as possible, depending on the situation and personal lifestyle. This person appears in public.

(4) Is considered to be the "low-intensity or occasional transsexual." This person has an intermittent strong desire, or a constant low desire for gender reassignment surgery.

(5) Is considered to be the "moderate intensity transsexual."

(6) Is the "high intensity transsexual" who desperately seeks gender reassignment surgery. He may be suicidal if prospects for reassignment therapy do not appear promising.

(7) Has been added beyond Doctor Benjamin's scale to represent the post-operative transsexual who has completed gender reassignment surgery and is living as a member of the opposite sex. Many male to female transsexuals refer to themselves as "New Women" or "New Men."

I am 3-a

[Tinkerbell-GG]

My H would be between 3B and 3C - he occasionally dresses completely but never in public.

Me, I'm boring old 0

[Sometimes Steffi]

I'm between 3C and 3D.

And Tink. Didn't you say you were a tom-boy, or maybe I'm mixing you up with someone else. A tom-boy is at least a 1, and maybe even a 3A or 3B, not just a 0.

[Elisa Lace]

I'm a 3A-3C. Haven't dressed publicly yet, but I'd really love to so... Maybe I will do it this year, who knows.

[Katey888]

OK - just for fun...

Between a 3b and 3c if that's possible

Not just possible but you have me snuggled up beside you... a 3c minus the public part (unless you count the virtual forum public here..? no? OK..)

Nope. I don't fit on this scale at all. :/

MM - categories are not for you.. If most of us can force-fit ourselves into one of these silly boxes, yours would be a very multidimensional space indeed... I envy you your diversity, am fascinated by your complexity, but am more than happy with my own simplicity..

A 3C, I do appear in the general public but only when there is a trans event or group get-together. I don't need to dress everyday and don't really want to do everyday mundane things as a woman.

Vickie - that would be my ambition - probably to go out to a closed event first or a group... but I'm completely with you on the latter.. life is so much quicker, although less attractive, as a male...

I do look forward to the time when we'll all have our own unique designator - CD/TV catII 3c (c/w wig+) TG<min> & chocolate sprinkles - tattooed as a bar code on our wrists... that'll make it easier for us all to be rounded up come the glorious day...

Katey x

[Tinkerbell-GG]

I'm between 3C and 3D.

And Tink. Didn't you say you were a tom-boy, or maybe I'm mixing you up with someone else. A tom-boy is at least a 1, and maybe even a 3A or 3B, not just a 0.

Ha, good point Steffi! I think I'm a 'wanna be' Tom boy. I always did prefer boys toys and games to boring girl stuff, and boys always made life look so much easier. I rocked the girl clothing though and don't have a masculine body type, so maybe I'm a 0.5

[mechamoose]

Nope. I don't fit on this scale at all. :/

[ShelbyDawn]

easy peasy...3D

[Nadine Spirit]

Okay I will bite.

3D - except for dressing as often as possible. I generally only dress 2-4 times per month but I could do it mich more often if I wanted to.

[Milou]

Between 1 and 2. Might go further, might not?

[Jackiefl]

I'm a 3D with a dash of 4

[Claire Cook]

3D with glasses!!

[Bria]

I'm between 3c and 3d

Bria

[Drusilla]

3B with Ambitions of making it to 3D.

[chelyann]

3d with a touch of 4

[Adriana]

Between a 3b and 3c if that's possible

[Martha G]

A 3A.

Dress up for costume parties as a woman or female character occasionally.

[Marcelle]

I would land squarely in 3D. However, perhaps the question to ask is given the right set of life circumstances (i.e., time, understanding SO, ability to dress, looks, confidence, opportunity) where would you fall? I think a lot of gals are answering based on current constraints (e.g., DADT relationships) . . . so take the constraints off and have another go?

For me it would still be 3D as I have no desire to transition beyond the 3.

Hugs

Isha

[Tina G]

I would have to say 3C moving forward to 3D.

[KaceyR]

I'd say 3D... (2D would leave me flat ) *rimshot*.

Thank yew...will be here all weekend. Don't forget to tip your waiters...



But I can't say entirely that there hasn't been some wonder at HRT or such..dunno about the jump to surgery. (Seems to be a bit gapped list-wise...

[Kevyn53]

I'm just short of a 3D. The "often as possible" part is a really vague term. I don't feel then need to dress "as Often as possible." It's more of a urge that builds up and I feel softer when dolled up.

[Anna H]

I'm going to crawl out on a nice narrow (pink) limb here and suggest there's
some stuff missing and/or arranged incorrectly.

If i were being "classified"...according to this...it would be wrong.

[Melissa73]

(3C) Is the occasional transvestite who does dress completely and does appear in public. However, the person appears to need some sort of sanctioned event to do so, such as Halloween, Mardi Gras, or a costume party.

(3D) Is the person who dresses as completely as possible and as often as possible, depending on the situation and personal lifestyle. This person appears in public.

[Gypsy Sam]

Definitely a 2, however find that 3b is becoming more prevalent especially in the last year. Dr. Harry Benjamin's scale has been on my mind lately and your posting is very timely. Thanks for the input.

[Lygophilia]

The close that could fit on is between 1 and 0. 1 for being open to it, due to having more variety. I was curious when dressing at one point from boredem of the other side. Accepted recently that I can't get in to it, because it's mostly not convenient. Don't know my own sexuality, from the 0 bit.