If anything I prefer the term "crossdresser".. I think the word transvestite tends to lead people on the route of TG..As Lynn says in her post...
but as I have said in a previous post.. I hate labels unless they are designer...
the fallen angel
If anything I prefer the term "crossdresser".. I think the word transvestite tends to lead people on the route of TG..As Lynn says in her post...
but as I have said in a previous post.. I hate labels unless they are designer...
the fallen angel
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I am me. I am not anybody else. I don't care to be labelled or to label myself.
I wear women's clothes. I love wearing women's clothes. I find skirts and particularly dresses more comfortable than jeans/trousers. I love wearing hose. I feel good in hose and dresses. I don't much care for cosmetics but I'd love to be able to wear them every day. I'd love to be able to go out in a dress and to live my life in clothes I find comfortable. I reject the macho view of the world that states men must wear trousers.
Am I a transvestite? I really don't care what I'm called. I know I'm me. I would love to be seen as a woman by men and women alike, to be able to blend in as a woman. I also love my wife dearly and never ever wish to be a cause of strife. She would be happy for me to wear a dress with her outside. The only reasons why I don't:
1. I don't want people that pay her for her services (she runs a business) to take sufficient umbridge that it affects her business.
2. I don't want to be perceived as a pervert.
3. I'm always scared of other people anyway and in the bible belt - goodness knows what they'd do to me if they found out.
I do enjoy the feel of the outside world when I'm in a dress though.
I went to dictionary.com and here are the defintions they gave:
trans·ves·tite: a person and especially a male who adopts the dress and often the behavior typical of the opposite sex especially for purposes of emotional or sexual gratification
Cross dresser: : someone who adopts the dress or manner or sexual role of the opposite sex [syn: transvestite]
Carroll
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I also go with transgender. I think it sounds less offensive
michelleliz
i agree but being british i prefer TV or trans....if i have to make a choicesOriginally Posted by Deanna2
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Although I now consider myself more of a transgenderist as I develope this side of my lifestyle in the future.
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Technically, "transvestite" is merely the Latin translation of "crossdresser" (reflecting the academic roots of the original researcher, Magnus Hirschfeld, who coined the term) although as others have noted, the two have acquired different overtones in the U.S.
Personally I like reclaiming "transvestite" (and "tranny") -- just like gays reclaimed the term "queer." In part because I like how the "trans" part of it ties together with "transgender" and "transsexual" since we're all in this together.
Lena
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The words mean the same thing, however people often understand them differently.
Personally I use crossdresser here because after all this is crossdressers.com lol
Susan
Yup, I agree with this. If someone else has a negative definition of the term, that's his/her problem. I have no problem with either crossdresser or transvestite and use the terms interchangeably to show people that their definition doesn't matter to me - only mine.Originally Posted by Marlena Dahlstrom
I also mess with people's minds by telling them I'm a catastrophe since the word for transvestite in French sounds like travesty, which means catastrophe (je suis un travesti).
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I have been known to use both terms but prefer Transvestite as I feel it has a more permanent tone to it and this is something I will always be.
One of 'em applies anyway. I just switched from my Ericka to Eric phase and will be CDing as a guy for awhile. So CD or TV, I'll still be here one way or the other. Eric
I think it is more or less the same thing.Many try to define differences and often disagree.I don't really like these labels when describing myself, though tgirl is not too bad.At least it has "girl" in it.
Some are Cd ,some are TV,what about DVD?
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Dee Dee
THis is true about the Jerry show, and have found that publisising your problems should be a illegal act and u should shoot those people.Originally Posted by Sally2
That is my proffesional counsilling opiinion
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I'm usually called Lisa, that bloke in a dress or dozy. The CD TV thing really doesn't enter into my tiny world.
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It's too bad we couldn't arrive at some sort of scale here with Le Closet at one end and La Cage at the other.
Transvestite for me carries a bit too much odour, too close to Drag Queen, which I see as very insulting (to women and dressers) as a characiture. ie: Overly large boobs, lips, hair etc. La Cage etc.
There is better poetry in 'crossdresser ' for me. The one I really don't like the smell of is "She-male".
I guess we'll just call you Calamity James...Originally Posted by CaptLex
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Myself I prefer the term crossdresser. It seems to me to carry less of the baggage that transvestite carries. I suppose that is because crossdresser is the newer of the two and seems to imply a more benign connotation. Its funny because reading the other posts others have the opposite opinion.
All in all both terms mean the same thing.
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I hate the term 'Transvestite' preferring 'Crossdresser' or 'Transgendered'!!
Sarah R.
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If you look up the two definitions you will find that some define transvestite as a fetish, a sexually pleasure thing. A transvestite is a crossdresser but for a specific reason. Not sure it this definition will stick. But I do think the sexual fetish side of crossdressing should be in a different category.Originally Posted by Mistress Frillee