Terrific topic. I personally view crossdressing as more of a verb rather than a noun. To cross dress, crossdressed, crossdressing.... Doing something, taking an action really IMO does not make someone something. I know, we can say I am a crossdresser, but that is still sort of a description of a person who makes a specific action. Crossdresser to me is not really an identity. A whole bunch of verbs creates an adjective... It is more of a what a person is than who they are. It is the who that causes a person to take actions which then creates the adjectives....

I am going to give a correction of sorts to a statement you made in a previous post.
Quote Originally Posted by ReindeD
Admittedly my default expression is feminine, even without adornments or stereotypically feminine clothing, because I am a female. So no matter how I choose to present, whether it is in an old pair of jeans and torn Tshirt to paint the bathroom or getting all dressed up for a fancy wedding, I can say "this is who I am" and know that people do see me as a woman.
Your default expression being feminine is not because you are a female, it is simply because you are a person who is more feminine than masculine. You are typical of the 90+ percent of females who are more feminine. Enough so that you identify as a woman, which IMO is also not necessarily female. Female is simply what you are physically. A woman is what you identify as, a woman is who you are.

TS women are people IMO who identify as women. Their default expression being so overwhelmingly feminine that they identify as women. Most will desire to and at least attempt transition to be females so that their internal identity and their physical being are matched. Then there are those who crossdress....

IMO, most who do not identify as women yet crossdress get the whole I am being or am or whatever female, are getting it wrong. A part of their identity may be that of a woman, but not complete enough to want or need transition to become a female. Or their identity may not even be a woman at all, just feminine enough to desire and take the actions to experience sensations and certain other actions of that which most females experience.

I feel personally that I am one of those which could be considered dual gendered. Basically, enough femininity that my identity is not solidly that of being just a man. Crossdressing does not make me feel like a female, or even make me more feminine internally. It is my internal femininity that makes me crossdress. It gives me some alignment of my internal femininity. I do believe that a person can identify as both man and woman, or neither perhaps, along with the 90+ percent who are cisgendered and only identify as man or woman as they are also male or female