Quote Originally Posted by Pink Person View Post
Crossdressers have forfeited any reasonable claim to cismaleness, cismasculinity, and combined cismanliness. The best that they can hope to rightfully claim for themselves is transmaleness, transmasculinity, and transmanliness. This is the shoe that fits you, princess, so put it on. It's not like you don't want to do it.
I think the big issue among the CDers who don't wish to claim transmaleness as you call it (good description!), is a belief that it is wrong to be TG, as if it takes away from who they are or it makes them lesser men somehow. This comes from being socialized in a trans/homophobic world and having internalized the transphobia.** It's a shame, really. I'm in love with a CD who considers him/herself dualgender. I don't think he or she is less of anything at all! It's like being bilingual. Knowing two languages doesn't make a person any less proficient in either one! In fact, it enriches a person in many more ways than knowing just the two languages.

** For those who are interested, see the next to the last definition in the link under my signature ... also google it for more in depth articles.