I hear what you're saying, and it's true that in your pic you don't look like a guy. But this is not true for a large numbers of the CDers who get hit on when they are dressed. We're getting back to the old question, which is how realistic is it to believe that CDers can make others believe they are GGs? Sadly, this doesn't happen all too often especially in real life unless a CD is young, lithe, fairly small for a guy, and does not have an overly masculine physiognomy. And from what I read here, it also take dozens of pics before finding just the right one where the gender lines are blurred.
I think it's pretty safe to say that in most cases, the admirers or men who are attracted to CDs know that the CDs are guys who are dressed. Granted, the attraction for these men is the fact that the CD is dressed, over an attraction to a guy who is not dressed. So yes, the attraction is to feminine men, but men just the same. This is why I said there was a different agenda, since in the CDer's mind at that moment, she is a girl and not a guy in a dress. If that makes sense.
So, since there hasn't been a stampede to answer my question, lol, I'm thinking that fundamentally the CDer (generally speaking) knows it is all a fantasy, but makes the subconscious decision to go ahead and throw herself into the fantasy, simply because it is too much fun. During these times it would be counter productive to ask herself too many questions about what the admirers are really after? I'm just guessing here.