Been reflecting on when I came out years ago, and I was struck by something that I didn't think much about at the time. When I came out to my sisters and mother, they were fine with me being trans, but not with if I had been a crossdresser. At the time I was just happy they were accepting me and left it at that, but for some reason now I can't get my mind off of the why. Why were they so ready to accept that I knew myself to be female, but at the same time vehemently unwilling to accept if I had merely enjoyed dressing in ladies clothing? I'm not the sharpest marble in the jar, but it seems more sensible to either be open to both or not open to either, and that if only open to one that it'd be the less "extreme" of the two. Has anyone experienced anything similar &/or have an explanation reconciling what to me is a baffling contradiction?