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I largely agree with Dreine in her/his latest post. (That may be a first!) Regarding LeaP’s latest post, I think that there is some hostility that cannot be accounted for by anything I wrote. ...

I don’t know why you are so hostile. My position is simply that transgender persons took issue with the professional organizations 40 years ago, after the professional organizations capitulated to...

Congratulations on knowing that 150 million is roughly 2% of the world's population, or roughly 4% of the world's male population. By coincidence, some estimates are that about 4% of men engage in...

Thanks for the information — I was not aware of the 2010 statement changing the official view on transgender and whether or not it is a disorder. Both the APA and WPATH did define transgender as a...

I have not missed them. Not all crossdressers are transgender. I am well aware of that. The fact remains that many people see "crossdressing" as synonymous with "mental disorder." Is that...

Male to Female Crossdressing is a forum potentially relevant to 6.2 million men in the US alone who express feminine feeling through clothing. Not all of them are seeking transition. In fact,...

What is in dispute? Transgender is a umbrella term that includes many different kinds of crossdressers. I would be grateful if you would respond to what you consider controversial.

Thanks,...

An answer would involve the fact that this site began in 1997 when most people, including professionals, thought that being a "transvestite" implied having a mental disorder. Since then, the...

I would be interested in the responses of others who have pondered that question. Many of the discussions here seem to assume that the answer is yes. But the trend in other circles has been away from...

The problem with blaming crossdressing for one's loneliness is that we all have the option of going out and seeing others. If we can do that while crossdressed, that is wonderful. If we can't find...

Your title, “15 years of CDing has left me empty and alone” (a negative commentary on crossdressing), suggests to me that you may have an agenda. I wish anyone well in finding themselves and...

I can’t imagine anyone who doesn’t have at least some interest in looking sexy. As others have noted, attitude may be as importance as appearance; and the urge to look sexy does not change much...

Hi DebbieL,

Thank you so much for your informative post. I urge others to read the full post, not just the part I have quoted. Treatment by HRT and SRS is a bargain for many people. For years,...

Well, could you expain why you are such a believer in YPATH? They see you as sick. They are a dying breed. No LGBT organization in the whole world supports YPATH. Tell the rest of us why you do. ...

It was said less than 20 years ago that often we find “… mainstream media themes of transsexuals and transgenderists as sick, deviant, dangerous, and in need of medical treatment” (Gordene...

First of all, I am impressed with the many thoughful comments and ideas expressed above. It will take me a while to digest some of them, but that is good! It proves that people are offering good...

Transgender persons have to become more accepted in society. That is not an issue of God's will or the like. It is an issue of tolerance for persons whose feeling differ from one's own. We have...

Transphobia is a persistent unreasoning fear of, or antipathy toward, transgender persons and cross-gender expression. The concept came into use to explain the fact that some people “freak out”...

It seems to me that we have to balance crossdressing with the other parts of our lives. We have careers or jobs; we have families; we have recreational interests other than crossdressing; and, of...

Crossdressing, by any reasonable definition, means wearing clothing that in the wearer’s culture is widely believed to be associated with the other sex. Nothing more; nothing less. When some...

This is an excellent post. Thanks! One could quibble with little parts of it (such as Kinsey's scheme), but I have no quibble about the essential points you make. Part of the importance of...

It seems to me that we are talking about 0.1 of one percent of the female population. GG's don't have fetishes any more than adult men do. Those that are attracted to MtF crossdressers because of...

That is hard to know for sure, one way or the other. From the potentially flawed statistics that I have been able to find, India has the largest number of transgender persons per capita of any...

Dear Angela,

This is one of those relatively rare threads in which everyone has given thoughtful, insightful responses. There is not too much to add; however, I will reinforce the idea that if...

This is an excellent post and I applaud you for raising issues we all should think about. And I believe that we can learn a lot by studying the successes of other groups — lesbians and gays, women...