Eryn, Very well written. You made some very valid points. My guess is that the majority of CDers experienced the same thought process considering what little information was available back in 1970 or there abouts. Most of us had no idea what this whole dressing up thing was about. We might have heard the term transvestite by then, but that sounded so perverted to most of us. We had not heard terms like transgendered or even cross dresser back then. Those terms came much later and I suspect the INTERNET helped to at least bring those terms out to the public. For me, I started to find out I was not alone with this at age 27 when I told the first person I ever told, my then fiancée. I remember that being one of the hardest things I ever had to do up until then. She had the typical shock, fear nd pain first. That was followed by the usual questions; do you want a sex change,, are you gay etc. In a matter of a week or two, we were able to calmly talk about it. It was like we learned about it together since I did not have all the answers she wanted or needed. The point is, it was a totally different era then this new millennium.
