How my kids view gender bending.

[SophiaRose]

While on vacation with my wife and daughter the topic of drag queens came up. My 26 year old daughter blurted out "dad I want to do your makeup!" Then she and my wife had a good time saying what they would do to me, all the while with me sitting their dumbfounded and slack jawed thinking YES!!, let's get started! My daughter said she had done her boyfriends makeup in high school and it was a fun thing many girls did. This got me thinking if the term cross-dressing, as someone of my age (50s) thought of it, may be obsolete in the not so distant future. I grew up thinking crossdressing was weird and needed to be hidden at all costs lest I be ridiculed. Kids these days...not so much.

[kimdl93]

I may have missed something. Does your daughter know that you cross dress? If not, the conversation might be interpreted differently than if she knows.

[Kayy]

I think you’re on to something here. Years ago it was rare to see a man in a dress/skirt (that’s in the UK). Over the last few years this has changed, in the past two months alone I’ve seen three, one locally, one in a Cornish seaside town and one in London, and they were all in their twenties. I’ve also probably seen a few fully dressed CDs but not realised it!

[SophiaRose]

Kim, no she doesn?t. Ironically, I think it would be easier to come out to her first.

[Verona]

I had a similar experience a couple of weeks ago, my daughter wanted to practice putting eyelashes and lipstick on me. I was like, if you must but inside I was buzzing. She loved it and I played it down like it was not a big deal. She even called me pretty lol.

[docrobbysherry]

I believe after we're all gone the term Cross Dresser will die with us!:battingeyelashes:

Young trans seem to prefer to dress androgenously for the most!:heehee:

[Brynna M]

My intuition is that doing her boyfriends make up once for fun and having a boyfriend who does his own feminine makeup on a regular basis are different to most women even the younger ones. Crossdressing as a stunt or joke has been mostly ok for many decades but take it more seriously and it's still considered at best abnormal.

[Keremy]

I want to hope that Kayy and Verona are right that the world is changing its view on men wearing women?s clothing.

However, I have to wonder if Brynna is not correct. When I was in a conservative college 25 years ago a group of girls talked one of the guys into putting on a dress and doing his makeup. They had a great time with him but if he were to have done it on his own they would have ridiculed him.

If you were going to come out Kim I suspect is correct come out to your daughter.

Have fun with your family. Safe travels.

[alwayshave]

... having a boyfriend who does his own feminine makeup on a regular basis are different to most women even the younger ones.
I could not agree more. I had a girlfriend in my teens who did not know about Jamie and said she wanted to see me in makeup. When I liked it a lot, she was not happy.