Quote Originally Posted by Nicki B View Post
If they want to use the term about themselves, fine - the problem always comes when labels are applied to others and when a 'hierarchy' is implied.
But it IS a valid description and IT IS acceptable when used in correct context. 'Cross Dressing' IS only a person of one gender who expresses an appearance of the other gender, usually going to a LOT of effort to do so, with a lot of pride behind the process.

Woman in Menswear is just as common, but just not so noticed.

I just truly wish all the 'private' CDs would get out into the street and make that end of the spectrum as visible and celebrated as possible.

My daughter was watching a show on TV yesterday about the Roman era. The Men were all in DRESSES - so she said!

But that aside, we came back to the different between a CD and a TS.

My personal expression is well stated about about CD.

A TS has physiological issues to deal with, clothes do NOT make a TS, they merely ease a symptom of social indoctrination.

I've also said many times before the border between a 'high level CD' and a 'low level TS' is so crossed that a person on that intersection may be far more confused and distressed than a CD or a TS a few inches away on their own scale.

I can't imagine what it's like being on that intersect. I think many TS's pass through that intersect as they evolve, but getting stuck on it - well here there is the question of this topic.

We can express the 'outer extremes' and identify that there is a scale and an intersection, but I suspect the OP was more concerned about their position STUCK in the intersection and looking for a direction - Four Roads - go back, turn left, turn right or go straight ahead.

More discussion is needed to guide people who hit that cross road. I just don't know what I can add because my experience of such is extremely limited and I feel most people want to fall into a bucket, rather than be stuck in the middle.

Maybe if we focus on making that intersection a happy place to be, that doesn't require confusion or 'decision' making to 'validate' oneself and their place, the issue of "Am I a TS or a CD" will go away of it's own, allowing those who are at the further ends of the spectrum ro travel as they go.

That has always caused unnecessary hurt and disharmony in this community?
Read your posting to me elsewhere and agree totally on the inventing of something to avoid prejudice. That is what I have and continue to support.

It hurts those who are vulnerable a lot less when EVERYONE speaks the same language.

I think this topic in it's own is a variant on that issue.