Quote Originally Posted by CharleneT View Post
It sounds like you are saying that the "Pink Fog" can "wake up" any CD to a find they are TS. Of course, there are many TS folks who cross dress for a time to try and deal with their issues, but it is more like Methadone than anything else. They don't convert at a certain point.
Although I think I understand what you are saying, and I believe it is true that you don't suddenly become Transsexual, I do believe that a number of us saw ourselves as cross-dressers before becoming aware / admitting to ourselves that we are in fact TS.

If I look back over my posts in this forum, they show that I have not always admitted to myself that I am TS, so to a certain extent there was a point where I converted from CD to TS.

I'm not sure I would agree with your methadone analogy, but might perhaps express it that a TS who tries to deal with what's going on by simply cross-dressing is akin to trying to cure a broken arm with not much more than a sticking plaster. It might help a little, but not much.