hmmmm yeah the transgender and/ or the cross dressing thing has been rattling around in my head for a while. Kind of funny now that being transgendered is ranked slightly higher on the acceptability chart than cross dressers. Like ooooh, it's Ok for you to wear that because you want to be a woman, of course you will wear women's clothes. But just begin a guy who likes express himself and enjoys female fashions is still way too creepy and odd for folks. Perhaps because sometimes ( and maybe a lot of the time ) cross dressing has an element of fetish-ness to it, and who wants a guy like that near children.
However, one of the nice benefits our TG friends have given us CD-ers, is if we are approached we can just say we are a TG-er in transition.