I agree with Julia_in_PA being a TS full time is not something that is easy. It is a lot of work and brings a lot of tears and at times pain. You do it all because that is who you are inside. You are living as a woman because that is what you feel you really are. But you can never totally be a Genetic woman and that in itself hurts. So we TS woman try to blend in with all the other woman. That is the best you can hope for. When you live as a woman you also take on the same problems all woman have. Plus those that comes with transitioning. It is not playing for a few hours dressed up in fact the clothes are not really what it is about at all. Being a CD is not the same as a TS. Being a person born as a woman is not the same as either of the two.