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A common question asked cross-dressers is, "Why do you dress like a woman?" There are several problems with that question. First of all the querent assumes 'woman' means 'female' mistaking gender for...

Barbara, you always seem to be a pleasant, thoughtful and considerate person. It pleases me no end that you have received such joy. May it last forever.

Minerva.

Perhaps the greatest difficulty in such surveys is memory. I do not think too many people can remember specific events at ages 1-2-years with any accuracy or completeness unless it was something...

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.

"To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", Robert Herrick...

It seems that Dr. Harry Benjamin, who created the belief that being transsexual was the whole of being transgendered through his deliberate, if erroneous, conflation of sex and gender, was a major...

I would tell them I 'dress' for the same reason any woman 'dresses'; to be pretty. After that, it gets complicated. Certainly if a person asked a similar question and I felt that they were indicating...

It is, perhaps, important to recognize that illusions can be real. Consider the Mona Lisa. We refer to the image as 'her' as if referring to a real person and the painting is capable of evoking a...

“Transsexuality Among Twins: Identity Concordance, Transition, Rearing, and Orientation”, Milton Diamond Ph.D, International Journal of Transgenderism, 14:1, May 2013, pp 24-38, retrieved from...

I have found Milton Diamond to be unusually rational in his concepts. His article is also transcribed at:
http://www.hawaii.edu/PCSS/biblio/articles/2010to2014/2013-transsexuality.html
I haven't...

"They are not 'women's' clothing, they are my clothing!" The objective is to get others to see you as a person without stereotyping you.

Minerva.

To paraphrase de Beauvoir, it takes much more than being female to be a woman. Not all women have vaginas as we have seen frequently and conclusively. Many species have females. Few, perhaps only...

I am fairly sure that the predisposition to Gender Variance is innate; that is it exists before birth rather than being wholly, culturally instilled after birth. There are two, fundamental reasons...

It depends on what you mean by 'passing'.

Unless you are actually female, attempting to 'pass' as a female is likely relatively futile and probably not always the most sensible goal.

If you...

A common statement by cross-dressers is, "I am only attracted to women but when I am 'dressed' [athenased] I think about sex with a man". To which the response is that they are homosexual and in...

Hi, Dominique.

To answer your questions would require a very lengthy discussion.

“Has there been any in depth studies that give us a reason for cding?”

I have been looking for something of...

Silly! You get a man (another sort of multi-tool) to open it for you and pour it into a glass. It makes them feel macho, and you practice your feminine wiles. First, a bottle of beer and then the...

I am definitely unfamiliar with the motivation for men dressing as pre-pubescent girls. But. I have noticed that in some cases the dressing appears to be complimented with accessories such as 'girly'...

First of all, he is your father and if he was, in any way, a danger to children I am sure you would know about it.
It seems to me that much of your concern is the result of misinformation. That you...

First of all, Holly, you are alright. You are not crazy, abnormal nor perverted. Your real problem is the possible reactions of the people about you should they discover your fascination with...

So Dita and I agreed to meet at the stairwell leading to the upper parking lot on the Zeller’s side. The time was to be between 1:00 and 1:30. This was my first time out, not counting the...

You might try:
http://www.sissify.com/
I cannot access much of it, so I cannot say whether is is worth recommending; but it appears to contain a wide range of options.

Love,
Minerva

There have been one or two stories of a CD approaching another CD with very mixed results. What if there was a way to introduce one's self without saying something blatant like, "Hi! I notice you are...

All of the time.

Love, Minerva

Brenda-Jean, my understanding is that, in most cases, wives are far more hurt by the secrecy than anything else. If you tell her, there are two ends of the spectrum of possibilities. First, that she...

Kimberly, it seems to me that you are becoming the man your father never was and the daughter your mother may have wanted. Both are major accomplishments.
I was wondering how many very young CD's...