I have not spent a great deal of time reading the literature regarding crossdressing, transgender, and so on. Honestly, I am not looking for that explanation in my life. I do what I do because I enjoy doing it, I started young, too young for it to have anytype of sexual connotation at all. Then it was done in innocense and without looking for explanation. It was far easier for me to admit that for whatever reason my physical did not match me. Certainly, I came to that conclusion later in life, or I might have been some sort of genius by Piaget's standards. I entirely had all the wrong plumbing, and so on, and was/am a female within. The sexual fantasy and eroticism that followed during puberty as I am sure it did for most of us was then and is now such a major source of confusion for me. I have experienced these stages of what has been discussed in that article. As a professional that uses the DSM on a regular basis and have also had some indirect involvement on research with mood disorders with the last update beg for those to use discretion. Like many who are in the trenches remain very cautious when making any sort of diagnosis. Where I have the most frustration when using this document (DSM) is that this is a person first in front of you and not a catagory for explanation. My profession often looses insight in order to offer a diagnosis. We do this to be sure that insurance is going to pay for the services rendered, but we also do this without insight into the impact that this will have on the person after the diagnosis. They will struggle to get life insurance in the future, they will have many other difficulties as this diagnosis will follow them forever.

As humans we need clairty and explanation for what we do and why. That is the human experience. I just feel that sometimes we are too quick to label, to judge, and to use these tools and knowledge to hurt and harm others, and cause a person or us to feel somewhat inferior and damaged because we crossdress, or do whatever we do.