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I have been crossdressing since about 6 or 7 years old.I started wearing silk panties and camisoles.I started wearing my sister and mothers clothes and also putting on make up in the bathroom while bathing.I soon started buying my own clothes,makeup and wigs as early as a teenager.I can remember the first time I shaved my body,I am a lifer and I love being a girl.
I think so. Why would we do this if we didn't need to? I absolutely love the time I am enfemme, and would spend more time if it were possible.
Okay, not at birth, just very soon after. Very much nature and not nurture.
At least one gene has been found to be more common in MtF TSs then general population. That strongly indicates that it is caused by a series of genes.
Scientists involved in that discovery have stated they expect that every step on the gender spectrum is largely caused by some or more of the same genes.
So while not yet proven conclusively yet science suggests you likely inherited a genetic predisposition to CD activated perhaps by a double-expression of the gene, by an epigenetic activation of a gene or some other similar.
like you thanks to mom..she never said anything but take them off ( meaning her white playtex long line girdle and white socks I was only four years old ) after that at six or seven yrs old I went to her rubber long line playtex girdle the one with the side hook and eye closer w/ a zipper and four garters which I tried her nylons on. I also tried on her bra. Nothing fit at all but felt very good against my skin. took my breath away. I did alot more after that at different ages. will tell more later
Yes, Yes, and, Yes - we all were. Enjoy life, it goes by way too fast. I'd much rather have fond memories than sayin to myself " I wish I had..."
I might have been born this way...but I don't remember!
I've always been attracted to girls and wanted to look like them. It all started with the very long hair. It's so feminine.....Then girl's make-up and perfume....Then after the family moved to another home, I saw a guy in the bus with hair longer than his butt! That's when I realized that it could be me....with make-up and perfume.... I've fantasized for many years before actually getting out dressed wearing a wig with natural hair to my lower back....Actually, I believe it took me too many years....
A.
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Originally Posted by bettysmith
[SIZE="2"]I think I was predisposed to being sensitive, so the boy clothes I had to wear just didn’t agree with me in a tactile sense. I don’t recall being an infant, but when I was a young boy I remember those stiff, board-like blue jeans that didn’t bend or fit properly. Shirts had tight collars, jackets were shapeless, and shoes were downright miserable. Maybe I was born a crossdresser, because I knew I had to find something more comfortable, colorful, and tasteful to wear. Here on Earth that mean’s girl’s clothes, followed by women’s clothing and every other feminine thing out there…[/SIZE]
wearing womens clothing is why i got into fashion in the first place...seeing a few extremly cute boys that were in full dress is what turned me bi...my second male male relationship is where i found that i absolutely have got to become a very femme boy (if you want to know the story pm me)...i would really like anyone with any suggestions about becoming more femme...pm me
p.s.
if you want me to tell you a story for the heck of it i do enjoy telling storys...just pm me and tell me what kind of story youd want to hear
Jamie,
At last , someone else who remembers wearing plastic pants, by choice , as a child .
Betty
The thread title was about CD not TS.:doh:Quote:
Originally Posted by battybattybats
Hey Betty,
Although I can't speak for everyone, I am certain I was born a crossdresser. I've been dressing up in mom's clothes since before I was 5. At the time I didn't think much of it but eventually the social pressures got the best of me and I went through the hectic binge-purge process - the urge never letting up. Then finally in my early twenties I decided to accept myself for what I am regardless of what others expect. Been happy as a clam ever since!
Don't know if I was born into it,but I still remember my sister putting me in a dress at age 8 or 9. I liked the feeling,and remember saying,"I love wearing a dress ! " 48 years later I still feel that way.
Didn't you manage to read the third sentence?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jenny Brown
"Scientists involved in that discovery have stated they expect that every step on the gender spectrum is largely caused by some or more of the same genes"
I suggest you read all the sentences, especially as that was a very short post, or you may easilly missunderstand what people are saying. Including following the link I'll be providing in a moment.
I wrote on this on my blog back in May. An important comment by Riki on Zoe Brain's blog is reproduced in that post http://caveofrationality.blogspot.co...causation.html Key piece worth quoting is:Quote:
Originally Posted by Katie B
So there's the referance that scientists involved in showing TS is biologically caused believe that CDing, as its part of that gender spectrum mentioned, will also be found to be similarly biologically caused. Not yet proved by science but predicted as likely by those scientists most expert in the subject.Quote:
I interviewed Dick Swaab, whose lab produced the BSTc research that is the strongest evidence for a neurological correlate for trans...
..He also explicitly supported the idea that there is a biological causation for the whole range of gender identity variations:
"I think we talked about a scale like the Kinsey scale for sexual orientation – we should also have a gender identity scale. It is not either this or that; there is also something in between. The distribution will not be simple, but here will be people somewhere in the middle."
"So it is not the entire brain that is switching, it is some systems, and that may also be the explanation for the [gender identity] scale. Some systems do switch and others don’t and it depends on which systems have switched where you enter on the scale."
Well I've no idea if I was born this way, but transgendered elements are rampant in my immediate family. We're all fairly open minded, LGBT accepting and loving. I suspect my brother is a CDer, as well as me. Growing up, he was the feminine one and I was the masculine one, though I'd always see him in male clothing.
My parents would give me his old hand-me-downs, (He's 5 years my senior) I'd ride his BMX bike, play with his remote control car, and play with his skateboard from as young as 5 until about 16 or so. He sold his remote control car, had his bike stolen and smashed up his skateboard. Now I have my OWN remote control car, but still miss BMX riding. Never really got into skate boarding.
I was given male and female toys growing up, I loved LEGO as much as Barbie. Mum would try to put me in dresses (though never did complain about shorts and t-shirts) while dad would get me to help him smash up old concrete with a sledge hammer. Neither masculinity nor femininity was rejected in me but thankfully, equally nurtured by my whole family.
I suppose I've always had an equally strong male and female side. However, I do remember when I was about 4 or 5, I'd try to stand over the toilet and say to myself "I wanna pee like a boy!" And whenever I played 'make-believe games' with one of my female friends, I'd ALWAYS want to play the male character. Even today online, in games I pick the male characters.
I have no idea where Thomas really came from, I'm just happy he's there.
It's just my opinion but I'm sure that crossdressing is neurological and/or hormonal in nature and it runs in families. So enjoy it. It's NOT a mental illness and if you ask me I think it's supposed to be fun !
"scientists" huh? Right, whatever. Now you want to consolidate CD and TS? Sorry, but I don't buy it. Bottom line is that it's just another excuse. It's not that hard to find an excuse for cd-ing if you're looking for one. Nobody was "born" a cd. It's a conscious personal choice each individual makes.Quote:
Originally Posted by battybattybats
Then please explain to me why I was attracted to playing dressup and female things when I was only a small child..there was no conscious decision or desire to dress ..it was all natural for me and still is to this day. I don't think you understand..some of us are not looking for excusesQuote:
Originally Posted by Jenny Brown
This is the old "nature or nurture" debate?
If you take a male child and raise them as a female ~ then they will identify as female?
If you take a female child and raise them as male ~ they will identify as male?
The fact of the matter is? That the default for the human fetus is female, up to about six weeks.
If the fetus is to become a male? Then certain things have to kick in.
There's a whole range of things that have to kick in?
Turning gonads from ovaries into testicles, changing a potential clitoris into a penis. Etc.
There's a "hormonal wash" that takes place.
This hormonal wash "hard wires" the brain to be either feminine or masculine.
Or?
Somewhere in between.
There's two different sections of the brain that control gender orientation and sexual orientation.
Thus there's at least 26 different combinations ~ or permutations of possible sexual and gender orientations possible.
Per Natural Geographic TV? Possibly even more?
With that being said? The NGTV show I saw last night, demonstrated that almost 50% of all life on Earth is hermathicdic.
Fish go from being female to male ~ male to female. Starfish change from female to male. As do many other species?
The problem is that people are socialized and collateralized into binary thinking?
We're taught that a thing is right or wrong? White or black? Something is yes or no?
We're entrapped into thinking what we consider "logical" and thus entrapped into a singular world.
We're entrapped into thinking ~ this is it! This is my world! This is all I am! All I can be! All I can express? I can go no further!
I'm confided to this "definition" of reality! This is my three dimensional reality!
I know I'm trangendered ~ and know that I'm as my last LTR GF ~ part Girl?
It doesn't have anything to do with wearing women's clothes?
It has to do with self awarness, self acceptance, of who and what I am.
In short? Finding myselfe!
If you wish to address me, take it to PM.Quote:
Originally Posted by Katie B
Not really, it just happened...
I would say we are born with the urge and desire to cross dress, some of us just act on it quicker than others.
You're going to get a wide range of opinions, because there are so many reasons why we crossdress, and a good percentage of people either don't know why they do it, or don't want to know. Mine is in my bio.
im almost positive that my mom wanted a girly girl when i was born. she had lost two sons as infants ,less than 1 month old ,and then my sister was born who was a real tomboy. when i came along three years later it was her last chance at having a girly girl. i have acouple of memoires as a small child of wearing my sisters things ,and of being a dress dummy when mom took in sewing. there was a tiny bit bit of experminting with her girldes and such at purperty,but really nothing of any signifiance till my wife help me discover my femine side, its like she turned on a water faucet that wont turn off, and i love it
I can of grew into liking it, i just was always wishing i could dress up girly and finally started doing so. now i cant stop :o
Interesting question. Well I think I have always been attracted to feminine clothing my ewntire life. I remember as a small child, even as young as 4-5 getting excited when the Sears catolog would arrive. I'd run off to be on my own and you'd think I'd be into the toy section but I always looked at the womens section first. I always loved the femininity of the blouses and undergarmets.
I've always been very aware of my desires to dress and they have always been part of who I am. Was I born this way...who know but I pretty much feel as if I was...:) and am not complaining at all...:)
I believe that I was born this way. But it took me a long time to figure out which way I was. My earliest memories of wearing girls clothing were when I was four years old. When I was about seven my mother caught me wearing a dress. As she helped me out of it she told me that boys don't wear dresses. When I asked her why she just said," Because, that's just the way it is." That made no sense to me then and still doesn't now.
Back fifty years ago the general public didn't know about TG,TS,CD, and all of the other letters. People were either normal or homosexual. I'm sure that my mother was afraid that if I wore dresses I might turn into a homosexual. For a few years I thought I must be gay. But then there was a problem. I was attracted to girls. So I couldn't even do gay right.
Then I figured I was just a CD. But as the years go by I realize that I'm somewhere between a straight CDer and a transsexual. I just call myself transgendered. But I know that my family didn't make me this way. Now, like one of the other girls said, I consider my condition a gift. A gift that causes my wife grief but still a gift. I would never take a magic pill to change myself back to a normal. Who wants to be a normal? That's no fun. Leanne
Almost my story my mother said the same things and I to wondered if that is true. I do know that for me it was my mothers comments even when shopping I was told "to bad your not a girl! theres more pretty things for girls than boys" so thats me.Quote:
Originally Posted by bettysmith
I started early too as my mum had small breasts she had special bras. I enjoyed sneaking in to her room and trying it on. It felt the feminine side of me come right out. It is hard to not be able to go out in public but I enjoy dressing up in private. I have gay friend that know what I do and he doesn't mind me wearing female clothes while watching movies at his place.
I'll join the club that says their parents wanted a girl. I remember when my mom was pregnant with my sister ( I was 6 at the time) that my dad used to talk about how they had enough boys (I was youngest of three), and he hoped they'd have a girl this time.
I did try on some of my mom's stuff before my sister came along though. I can remember trying on her stockings and girdles and clip-on earings even before I started school, so I must have been four or so...
A number of years ago I saw a man in a gay pride parade bearing a placard that said "my mother made me a homosexual". Beside him was another fellow with a sign that said "if I buy the wool, will she make me one too?".
I don't know what the causes are, or if someone or something is to blame. If you can call it blame. I am not sure it matters. It won't make any difference to me if one thing or the other is the cause. All that is important is how we deal with it.
Alana
I feel good about being a man, and feel like I want the best of both worlds. If there is a latent female inside me, she seems satisfied by wearing panties, hose and maybe a camisole - under regular casual attire, almost every day. There is no doubt in my mind that I have been "hard-wired" since birth with this desire to feel feminine. I don't know if I'm just kidding myself - maybe this means something much more.
Hi Betty, I think that your situation is a mirror image of mine. My mother thought she was going to have a baby girl, but much to her surprise I arrived. She had only purchased frilly clothes for a little girl so that is how she passed me off in the beginning. As I grew a little older ( two to three years) she continued to dress me as a little girl. I didn't know any difference, and loved my frilly clothes.As time went on she felt that it was important to change me into a little boy. At first I rebelled but finally gave in.Quote:
Originally Posted by bettysmith
In later years I was still attracted to feminine clothing, so, every opportunity I had, I would slip into something of the opposite sex. The feeling never left. I love crossdressing and also think I was born to do it.:hugs:
Marcie R.
I cant remember clearly what made me a CD but one thing i know is that i never fit into the stereo type male image, i was always myself i like playing foot ball and wrestling around with my friends though i was smart enough to avoid extremely rough games that may cause an injury. At the same time still like to play with dolls and spend sometime with the girls gist with them and play dress up as well, this happened as far back as i can remember.
One major thing i can vividly remember is that i was vain and my mum use to complain that i like looking at the mirror and admire myself right from the beginning, which force me to wear some dark lip liner to enhance my lips and eyes.
Yes and as i mentioned in some threads that my sister use to dress me up very often and wished i was her little sister.
Hi All: Well I have no idea if I was born a CDer
but I know the exact date I decided to devote myself to wearing brassieres and panties and being a sissy.
I was a self conscious 14yo boy with tits
and a pretty young woman touched my arm, smiled and got so close I could smell her perfume when she whispered in my ear
That my tits were as big as hers and I should be wearing a bra.
A week later I saw my older sisters black lace underwire 36B bra on the floor and I picked it up and tried it on.
I put my arms thru the straps leaned forward (as I had watched my mother) and fastened the band behind me .
As I nestled my little boi titties into those lace cups I almost feinted from the intensity of the sensations.
I looked in the mirror and I was wearing a bra full of tits and looked great and I had tits like a young woman and I loved it
So in that instant I knew I would wear bras forever and be a sissy man in lingerie.
As the witch said:
[SIZE="4"]SURRENDER DOROTHY[/SIZE]
Well I'm pretty sure the wiring was preinstalled in my case (to use a more male analogy). In fact, I suspect everyone has most of the wiring present at birth. I think a variety of chemical (hormones) and experiential (learning and feedback) occurences just connect the wiring to the fuse panel and voila the pink lights go on.
Now that I've used that analogy, I actually don't like it. I've always thought that CDing was just an outward expression of a very deep characteristic central to my personality. It's not something I created or was trained into me. It's there and for all the times I have tried to ignore it or act like it doesn't exist, there's not getting around the fact that it is part of me - like my brown eyes.
In reality, the older I get the more thankful, believe it or not, I am for it. But that's another thread altogether.
Yes it's there from birth.
Lauren
Don't know for sure, but since I've had these feelings ever since I was a kid, and am really feeling the urge now, I would say I was definitely programmed for this. Especially since when I do dress up, I have this overwhelming feeling of contentment, as if this was a completely normal thing for me to do...which, of course, it is!! :)
I am almost certain I was. I honestly can't remember how early in life I started.
I started with wearing pantyhose at like age 7. I didn't know why I wanted to then. I was born TG be it CD/TV whatever you call it, I didn't just decide to start wearing womens clothing and find people like us "normal", it's always been this way and I like it. I can't stop the urge and feel so comfortable when I do dress. I just wish I could express Ashlee more without repercussions but it is what it is.
The Brady Bunch is responsible.
The concensous seems to be, and I'd have agree that it's inate- there's never been a time when I didn't want to do it, not doing is only because of the social consequences. It's the transformation that I wonder about- it's not crossdressing the sense of say a female wearing pants but rather the need to transform into a person (at least temporarily) with a different anatomy. Dressing is just a manifestation of this need to change our form. I have no desire to become a woman and I'm 100% heterosexual so what drives this is entirely confusing to me. It's not an addication but the need to do it is just as strong.
Yes
I remember when I was a little boy and mom gave us our Easter outfits. I was so envious of my sisters little dress. I had to wear a stupid coat and tie.
I'm doing my best to make up for that now! :battingeyelashes:
Ok Jane. How is the Brady Bunch responsible?
i was about 12 years old when i started wearing my sisters clothes.
Well in my mind I'm not sure anyone is born anything. I think fresh-from-the-mom babies are pure clean slates. See I can say this because I'm a twin and me and my brother are similar but also vastly differnt and I believe that its because differnt things came up in our lives. See my brother isn't a CDer at all, while I on the other hand 'am. Now what is the big difference you may ask? Well for one I grew close to my mother while he grew close to our father. In my younger years all of my friends were girls and his were boys.
These days my brother is a macho guy trying to become a police officer. I'm a freelance writer who has a thing for CDing. I was surrounded by more fem stuff and he was surrounded by more masculine stuff. When we play video games together I play girls he plays boys and thats how its always been (for a short while he played girls but he told me that "if I'm going to play a game all day I wana look at something hot," which wasn't the same reason I was doing it haha).
With that said I think everyone is born *blank* :straightface: and we can become more fem :battingeyelashes: or masculine :hwac:
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Yes I was also born a cd , my eariest memories was putting on lipstick watching Sally Star about age 5-6 . It is unusual, my mother had a miscarriage before me and it was a girl and I am the youngest of 3 boys. She wanted a girl real bad . I was looking over some early pics of me and in one I was brushing the hair of a doll at about age 7. She dressed me up as Raggidy Ann not Andy for halloween once and put bright red lipstick on me.. I was so happy when she did that!!!
I remember trying on mom's things at about age 7 or so. I have gone through a few phases, still don't know how CD i am, but enjoying the moments I have.
Inge