Quote Originally Posted by Satrana View Post
If you stick with your description then most CDs are not transgendered either. Indeed only a small percentage of the members here could call themselves transgendered. Yet clearly their feelings would be labeled as transgenderness.
No, a CD who is dressing as the opposite sex in an attempt to be perceived/treated/experienced as that sex is the very essence of the definition. Women who are labeled or identify as a tomboy are most often not trying to be perceived/treated/experienced as a male. Instead, it is an expression of their own unique femininity. Again, being trans is an identity.

Also, transgenderness is not a word.

The word transgendered means to exhibit characteristics associated with the opposite sex.
Um... no. See above.

It is more accurate to say that tomboys are the female equivalent to MTF CDs except that in their case tomboy behavior is widely tolerated by society and carries no terrible stigma hence tomboys do not enter into a closeted mode with all its side effects. The result is that most people never consider tomboys to be transgendered because it is known that it is not an indicator of transsexuality or homosexuality precisely because it is not closeted. It is also a consideration of the fact that women gain status by developing their masculine side unlike MTF CDS who lose status.
As a former long-term tomboy I can attest that there are certainly social repercussions for tomboys. Also, it is not known that being a tomboy is not an indicator of being transgendered. They are separate identities, but AFAIK any correlations between them have never been tested.

These days most women openly admit to being a "bit of a tomboy" because they acknowledge they expend little effort to live up to traditional definitions of femininity and instead choose androgyny. This means at the most basic level women wearing pants are reacting to the same idea that CDs do, namely escaping the confines of their assigned gender roles and absorbing the good parts of the other sex.
The scary thing is you are completely serious about this. Women being able to wear pants had nothing to do with wanting to be men. Wearing pants wasn't the good part of being a man. It was, rather, symbolic of the "good parts". You know, like voting, owning property, and you know having rights beyond what hat to wear.