Do you want to know if you are a transvestic fetishists?

[reb.femme]

Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you discover you're riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. How many ways can the label argument be presented?

Thank you Lorileah,

I did have a titter at that one!

Some people have a need to justify? or pigeon hole themselves. I can't and wouldn't offer to comment on what is probably worthy investigation, but I will not be reading it. Quite simply, this holds no significance in my life. I have no need to read into me any deeper than..............I am as I am.

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[PaulaQ]

@Lucy - are you saying that crossdressing is your preferred or exclusive method of achieving sexual gratification? Because the definitions you link state this.

BTW, real science doesn't give a crap about cross dressing. It barely cares about transsexualism. It'll be a while before they figure out CD - probably that will be an afterthought.

What say you about Blanchard's transvestic fetishists who later become TS. This is what his theories cover? Would you not say that they are transgender? If not why not. If so, why wouldn't the transvestic fetishist be so in the first place?

BTW, what bothers you so much about the label "transgender"? Do you find it offensive or something? The name doesn't really change what something is...

[Lucy_Bella]

@Lucy - are you saying that crossdressing is your preferred or exclusive method of achieving sexual gratification? Because the definitions you link state this.

No I am not saying that..I am saying it can happen in some people ..

BTW, real science doesn't give a crap about cross dressing. It barely cares about transsexualism. It'll be a while before they figure out CD - probably that will be an afterthought.

I think they do..Two patients with paraphilias (one each with sexual masochism and transvestic fetishism) and depression were successfully treated with fluoxetine hydrochloride in a dose of '40 mg/d. Depression 1:50–52 (1993). © 1993 Wiley-Liss, Inc... I think if confussion would get out of the way there may be hope for some..

What say you about Blanchard's transvestic fetishists who later become TS. This is what his theories cover? Would you not say that they are transgender? If not why not. If so, why wouldn't the transvestic fetishist be so in the first place?

I would never state that Dr Blanchards studies of T.S. would consider them T.G. although some T.S. go through a T.G. phase before transitioning there could have been flaws ( there was imo ) in the study.. Because being a T.S. in not a gender disorder" It's being born the wrong sex.. Very few transvestic fetishists ever go through a transition and those who do may have suffer from a form of extreme autogynephilia..

BTW, what bothers you so much about the label "transgender"? Do you find it offensive or something? The name doesn't really change what something is...

Nothing at all bothers me about the word..It just doesn't define me it defines people with GID..