It shouldn't! But it probably would. We don't live in a perfect world, and I'm not willing to take a chance and let a genie out of a bottle, that I can't put back in!But why should the fact that you crossdress diminish anyone's respect for you?
Be glad you didn't. The whole neighborhood and all the kids in school would have known in a couple days.I sometimes wish I'd told my kids when they were small.