Quote Originally Posted by Lucy_Bella View Post
Gender specialists differentiate transgender from gender nonconforming by noting that a transgender will assert firmly, over time, that their gender identity is the opposite of that which was assigned at birth. They will insist that they are in the wrong body,
No, Lucy ... you're confusing "transgender" with "transsexual". It's not. Have a look at the WPATH definitions (see link in #9) or the definitions on any LGBT site.

A lot of people in this forum believe that "TG" and "TS" are interchangeable. They are not, even if the media uses the term "TG" when they refer to a transitioning TS.

"Gender-nonconforming" refers to how an individual might identify. "Transgender" refers to a group of individuals, some of whom refer to themselves as gender-nonconforming, others as CD, or TG, or DQ, or genderqeer, bigender, gender variant, gender fluid, etc. Remember that "transgender" is not a statement that says a person necessarily identifies as a gender different than birth sex (for example a CD who is male identified). "Transgender" simply means that the person is engaging in behavior that goes beyond what is culturally accepted for their birth sex, for example a male who wears women's dresses in our society. We may like to think here that in our culture it is or should be the norm for men to wear dresses or otherwise be feminine in the same ways that women are, but this is not the reality. But, the male who wears dresses (or wears makeup, women's jewelry, wigs, etc) can still identify as a male and fit under the transgender umbrella because of his actions.


... if he presents as a male who is not attempting to be feminine (by our current cultural standards), for example if he wears a kilt or one of the newer man-skirts, then IMO he is not crossdressing.