Quote Originally Posted by ReineD View Post
I am saying though that for me and for most people at large, we do not experience gender conflict and so we don't think of ourselves as having masculine or feminine tendencies as you described above. We just see ourselves as having interests and personality traits that fall within the very wide range of what is socially deemed "acceptable" (for lack of a better term) for women and men. Women think of themselves as women and men think of themselves as men, no matter what they enjoy doing.
Sooo... Reine - just to be completely clear on eradicating that flipping binary paradigm that seems to persist so much...

Do you accept as valid that while you don't think or feel like that, someone who has these tendencies and exhibits any sort of inexplicable desire to manifest as a female (CD or, dare I say it, TG-like.. ) MAY quite reasonably feel something that they believe to be akin to how a female feels in certain circumstances but not all the time...?

I think the circumstances are important because this is (even for me) about a partial switch change in feeling rather than constantly being effeminate, although some traits probably do still come through my male aspect. The dressing facilitates behaviours and feelings that would struggle to emerge in male mode.

If you don't get it, that's fine also - but just reiterates how hard it is for cis-folk to grasp...

Katey x