Quote Originally Posted by kimdl93 View Post
It's highly misleading and innaccurate to suggest that CDing is just a learned behavior.
The growing body of evidence would suggest that both gender identification and sexuality are indeed established, or at least significantly influenced by hormonal conditions in the womb. Certainly individuals can choose to deny, repress or in some other way avoid expressing ingrained desires or preferences.
Wearing any sort of clothing is a learned behavior. We are born naked and if our ancestors hadn't discovered that they were more comfortable draped in the skins of the animals they killed, we would still be running around naked.

The choice of slacks or skirts, shirts or blouses is also a learned behavior. We are taught (in Western society) that men wear slacks and women wear skirts. Most of us make the choice based on what's between our legs. Some make the other choice or something in between. These are the crossdressers, the transgendered, etc.

One more point: It's often said that "The clothes don't make the man." Well, they don't make the woman either. If we go past the secretaries, receptionists, etc. in their pencil skirts and heels, we find women (100% female) working in factories and maintenance jobs, dressed in the very same clothes as their male co-workers. My point is, you are what you are and what you wear doesn't change that.