Hi all,
I am a crossdresser but I am pretty sure I am straight. I like girls and not guys that's for sure.
I just enjoy looking dressing up like girls. Is that weird?
Gina
Hi all,
I am a crossdresser but I am pretty sure I am straight. I like girls and not guys that's for sure.
I just enjoy looking dressing up like girls. Is that weird?
Gina
Hell, NO!
That's what most of us do here
Loving life to the full.... At long last
That's the reality for me Gina.
But the perception is VERY different.
I shop at a cute little resale place in my town and the owner is a lovely lady who doesn't judge, one day while trying on a dress and asking her opinion she made a remark the indicated she thought i was gay, and she seemed sorta shocked to find out the exact opposite was true.
You are NOT alone
XO
Penni
If you are weird then that covers me as well. Been dressing for a zillion years and have no interest in men, just love women, but rather oddly drawn to get dressed like one when I can...lol.
I guess I'd be gay if I transition from male to female; then I would be a lesbian. LOL
But, I'm a man and am attracted to women.
Most crossdressers are straight, about 80% or so. Exactly why we crossdress is subject to a whole lot of different reasons. Don't fret. You're in the majority of us. About 2.5% of all men crossdress on a regular basis, but nearly all of us are 'in the closet' because society doesn't accept males who identify as females in any way. Welcome to the forum. There are plenty like us here. Sadly, there are few if any single women here who accept crossdressers as potential mates.
Some causes of crossdressing you've probably never even considered: My TG biography at:http://www.crossdressers.com/forums/...=1#post1490560
There's an addendum at post # 82 on that thread, too. It's about a ten minute read.
Why don't we understand our desire to dress, behave and feel like a girl? Because from childhood, boys are told that the worst possible thing we can be, is a sissy. This feeling is so ingrained into our psyche, that we will suppress any thoughts that connect us to being or wanting to be feminine, even to the point of creating separate personalities to assign those female feelings into.
Gina, to give you an idea of how not unusual that is, there has been organized groups and clubs for heterosexual crossdressers going back to the early 50s. You are certainly not the only one, and heterosexual transvestism is not a new phenomenon, you are one of many out there!
Why should that be weird?? It's a description of most of us I'm sure.
Welcome to the Forum...
I don't wear women's clothes, I wear MY clothes !
Your title "CROSSDRESSER BUT STRAIGHT" is an implication that you are of the opinion that crossdressers are gay or bi. You have so much to learn. I know that in time you will see the difference, please don't use the old social stigmatism........................ that "crossdresser" = gay or bi.
It's almost like saying you like Elton John, or Ellen DeGenerus, or the rock group Queen, BUT I'm straight.
Last edited by Tara D. Rose; 10-24-2012 at 02:36 PM.
Yep, my thoughts exactly. At least, you now know that you are not alone in the straight and CD spectrum.Originally Posted by Tara D. Rose
Rebecca
I sooooooo want to be Elton John and his money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just couldn't wear my big girl panties today.
I am the same as well I love to crossdress to and am attracted to women not men so u are not alone in this crossdressing world
I am not sexually attracted to men when I am not dressed, but my personality does shift when I am dressed. I still don't desire men, but I enjoy the sexual edge to our interactions (at least I did the handful of times I was out en femme). I am not sure what to make of this, but then I haven't tried particularly hard to analyze or categorize my feelings.
In Ginas defense, many of us have been and are very much in the closet but wishing to interact with other crossdressers.. Let's face it, we all have the same challenges and joys with shopping, how, when and where we dress, getting caught, etc. And it is wonderful to be part of a sharing community online. However, i explored a number of sites before finding this one - and I'm glad I did - and in some, as soon as you join you get propositioned. I'm not into that and that is certainly not why I am here. So, if announcing orientation right up front puts off some of those unwanted advances, then that's not entirely bad. In the grand scheme of things, whatever one's orientation is fine. Here I'm just looking to be girly.
What's weird is that your pretty sure? lol I
Pretty sure she wonders "what is on the dark side?"...Everyone is entitled to their own attractions!
Lol. Now that is funny!
I don't want to protest too much, so I can't say!Okay.... I am convinced that you're all straight..... are you?
Getting married here and completely straight. I just like pretty clothes and that has no effect upon what I sexually desire.
The way you phrased this jumped out at me too. I was "pretty sure" for most of my life. Then not so sure. Now I know Im not straight, but not gay either. My sexuality is evolving like my dressing. What I'm certain of is that I am attracted to women and transgender gurls like me. Even that may change in time, but who knows. One thing is for sure, none of it is weird, it just is.
i'd say at least a good 60% of the folks on here that i have talk to on here are married counting me and i'm straight so no your not any wierder than the rest of us lol
I believe most crossdressers are straight. I am. I have never had a sexual or romantic feeling towards another male.
There are some on this forum who identify themselves as "transgendered" and that's fine with me, but some folks insist that any male who crossdresses is transgendered or gay.
[SIGPIC]http://www.crossdressers.com/forums/image.php?type=sigpic&userid=82706&dateline=137762 0356[/SIGPIC]Linda
The majority of cross dressers are heterosexual.
Straight (but not narrow) here too!
I think the perception of the general (non CD) population is that guy that likes to wear women's clothes is gay. Obviously there is a lot wrong with that perception, but still that's what seems to be the thought. In reality, the percentage of CD's that are straight are most likely exactly the same percentage of males that are straight. In other words, if 98% of the total male population is straight, then you can expect 98% of the crossdressing male population to be straight.
That leads to the obvious conclusion that crossdressing and sexual preferences are separate phenomena.
Jenn A --- nothing fancy, just me.
Are Crossdressers Gay?
Contrary to what most people think, here are the facts written by a psychologist that studied this subject:
This is the worst of all myths about crossdressers. Most crossdressers
are in fact heterosexual people. In all surveys it has been found that only
about 5 percent of them were gay.
What percentage of the population is gay?
Estimates range from 2% to 10%
So the percentage of people who crossdress that are gay and the percentage of the population who are gay is pretty much the same. So being homosexual seems not to be a factor why people crossdress.
Think this may answer your question.
Gina Ain’t Weird — but Neither Are Those Who Ain’t Like Gina!
I think that the essence of your conclusion is absolutely correct, but the percentages you state may be skewed a bit. If the survey researcher asks the question, “Do you think of yourself as heterosexual, bisexual, or homosexual?” practically all US adults will say that they are heterosexual, a response highly encouraged by Western cultural beliefs about what is acceptable. Only two-to-three percent will admit to being anything other than heterosexual. But if you ask about specific homosexual behaviors, something approaching ten times that percentage will admit that they have occasionally dabbled in such actions. How you ask the question greatly affects the responses you will get. But getting back to your essential conclusion, “… being homosexual seems not to be a factor why people crossdress.” It’s just that the percentages may be 20 and 20 rather than 5 and 5 or 2 and 2, depending on how much latitude for fudging the specific question allows.
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