In the late 80's when I finally got my hands on some goth clothing goths were feared, hated and not acepted. Today there is one that goes against stereotype on NCIS, there are Goth kids shows. It's been about 10 years since i got a shouted insult or bad reaction for being goth.

General acceptance for extremely different and hated people is possible within 10 years at least and my daily life as a Goth proves that!

And Goths didn't conform, didn't tone-down, didn't try to fit in but did the opposite. Were outrageous and weird. We sat in parks and discussed poetry, we moved through shopping malls alone and in groups. And we bought goth things from stores and made and sold goth things at markets and eventually the internet.

The end result? Even in rural towns there are out goths, there is globally goth media of every imaginable sort, goth video games, goth industry, goth business, goth market.

And people realised we were mostly friendly, polite, intelligent and harmless.

In the western world goths are widely accepted.

Us crossdressers can do exactly the same. Carefully to be safe (most goths stuck to specific accepting clubs and to public places at first where violence is uncommon) but we can.

Progress isn't inevitable. Change happens when people change things and encourage others to do the same. Peiople have been making the change thus far. So long as more join them more will change but if they are not helped then when the generations change and older changers burn out from exhaustion it can collapse.

So then, we are all benefiting now from the work of CDs and TSs and DQs and DKs of the last several decades.

The question you must ask is, do you want things to keep changing? Then join in bringing about the change! Do you want things to change faster? Then do more to change things!

But if you don't help you are not just riding the coat-tails of the hard work of others but also risking all that has been gained thus far!

CDing has been accepted in many societies throughout history. Cding can be accepted generally within our lifetimes!

So then, what will you do about getting that acceptance?