This is really going to date me, but...
Back in 1964, and 1965 when I was 15 to 16 I went out at night (7-9 pm) walking from my home to the local strip mall and walked around. I recall being terrified of being caught or spoken to by a passerby. Then the next year my brother found my stash of clothes and I immediately purged everything. The only thing I did for the next five years was to share my cross-dressing behavior with two women, one a girlfriend, the other my soon to be wife; who I have since divorced in 1978 after seven years of marriage. I did do tons of research in college before I married and told my fiance that the prognosis with cross-dressing was hopeless. There wasn't a cure; and the likelyhood was that it would progress as the years went by. Even with this information we both thought and hoped that marriage would be the cure. Didin't happen. I've been living as Karan since 1988...