I wish people would learn more about biology before thinking about the origins of CDs.

First of all our genes contain instructions on how to build a biological body - they are like construction blueprints. They do not indicate what color a tenant on the 23 floor will paint his room 10 years in the future. Crossdressing has got zip all to do with genetics.

We are born with some hard wired knowledge necessary or valuable for our survival. Babies know to suck when something is placed in their mouths, they know to hold their breath when under water. We also have behaviors like the fight or flight response when adrenaline is immediately released into our bloodstreams when danger is detected. There is nothing about crossdressing that is about survival or provides an advantage in the natural surroundings that we are designed for.

The hormone wash theory is stupid from the start. Our brains grow continuously not just for the 9 months in the womb but also for the first year outside the womb. The only way to get a female brain is to be constantly bathed in female hormones for the 21 months it takes for a complete brain to develop. And even then this is immaterial as our brains are constantly renewing themselves as cells die and are replaced throughout our lives and this process is subjected to the hormones in our bodies i.e. testosterone.

This only leaves one option. We are crossdressers because of our individuality. Our brains are a myriad of billions upon billions of cells each linked together in a complex manner. These interconnections are constantly being renewed so our personalities and behaviors can alter over time. Everyone has a unique pattern of connections which gives us our unique personalities. You can give people the same input information but we all spit out different answers.

There is no such thing as being born a crossdresser. We were born with a unique personality within the norms of human beings or else we would not have developed into a normal adult. Everything else from that basic personality platform is learned behavior. It is how each of our individual brains organizes and interprets the world around us that determines what sort of person we will grow to be.

I am amazed to see people write off their early baby years as if the behaviors that will lead us to crossdressing could not possibility have developed then. During the first five years children absorb truly massive amounts of information. A five year old can do many things which even the most powerful computers in the world are unable to match such as learning language. We learn a great deal about gender roles through observing the world around us. After 5 years we had 1825 days to observe how males and females look and behave.

Since gender roles are artificially created by society, everything we know and understand about gender was learned. There is nothing intrinsic about our gender behavior, we were born without any knowledge of gender roles, essentially everyone is brain gender neutral when born.

We all learn to think about gender in our own unique ways. Some of us as children thought of it as something pliable and open to change to suit our personal likes and dislikes. Others conformed to the idea that gender should be fixed and cannot be altered. These thoughts drift through our minds on a subconscious level so we don't remember making deliberate conscious decisions on gender.

No-one decides to be a CD, rather we explore something, in this case female clothing, find we like it for whatever reason and if we believe gender can be something that can be molded to better fit our own personality then we bend society's rules and secretly become CDs through repeated thoughts and actions which strengthens the pathways in our brains until the behavior becomes natural and instinctive.

Remember all behaviors are common to all humans irregardless of gender. To believe that you need to have a female brain or be genetically different to enjoy normal human behavior is silly. It is only society's rules that makes us believe we are different from others. We are not. Period.