But you have transitioned. Aren't you talking about building support and respect as you integrate fully (not part-time) as a woman socially and professionally?
What a lot of people here are saying is, they don't want to integrate fully as women, because they are not women. They may want to present as women sometimes under some circumstances, and present as men at other times under different circumstances.
Those who do present as women sometimes, like my SO, go out and enjoy themselves. People are already respectful. If they disagree with what my SO is doing, they keep their opinions to themselves. At the same time there is no desire to come out at work, because my SO is not interested in working as a female. Nor is my SO interested in coming out to his family of origin. He is not a woman, he enjoys being a male who explores her femininity occasionally.
Why is this so difficult to understand?
I'm not saying that all CDers are like my SO. There may well be a few who want to present as women 100% of the time. But if they do, then honestly are they CDers or are they TS?
So basically, gender presentation does not always correlate with gender identity, especially with people who post the majority of the time in the CD section ... else they'd be posting in the TS section (provided they felt accepted there).
