I've been wondering if people content to simply crossdress are fewer and fewer these days - certainly the media seems to pay next to no attention to CDers now, focusing everything on transgendered people. The two don't necessarily have anything to do with one another, of course; someone once quipped about many transsexuals considering crossdressers their larval stage, which is an amusing way to think about it.
Society at least is, or was, coming to grips with tolerance for the transgendered, there's more info than ever on it, and, as I said, it's all people seem to talk about; is this impacting the CDing population? I'm referring to the transgendered here as people who want to transition fully, too; transsexual used to be the term used but that seems to have fallen out of favor.
I wholly respect anyone's experience here, too, I've read all about CDs, TSs, and everything else falling under the TG umbrella, and it's all valid in my eyes. For myself I dressed up in my Mom's stuff when I was a kid, and started doing so again a few years ago, thinking I was just attracted to the clothes, but came to learn that I really wanted to transition, which I'm doing - how I'm viewed by other people is what matters to me, not being a man who can do some dressup from time to time; so I'm embodying what I've tried to describe above myself. And I never would have been able to understand this about myself without epiphanies from obscure out-of-print books, things on the internet, and insights from my therapist. Before the net I think I would have just been a CDer with mixed up notions about what I was attracted to and various frustrations about various things in my life.