Quote Originally Posted by Dawn cd View Post
It's a nature/nurture question that is still unsettled among experts because gender is partly a social construct and partly physiological.
Do you have evidence to back this up with? I ask as I have read of intersex people who had a gender chosen for them, and regardless of the nurturing aspects, it didn't work out quite the way that people had hoped it would.

Quote Originally Posted by Dawn cd View Post
For most of us the impulse to crossdress is learned behavior that probably began at an impressionable moment when we were young, or later on. In that sense it's a "bug" we caught, and for many of us has become chronic.
Again, do you have any evidence for this?

Where exactly did I learn the behavior of wanting to shave my body hair? Where did I learn the behavior of wanting to paint my fingernails? Where did I learn the behavior of wanting to wear fem jewelry? I ask as those are things I did long before I ever even considered putting women's clothes on. And for that matter, if they were somehow learned, why did I learn those things, that maybe my sister or mother showed me, but I ignored what my dad and my male friends showed me?

Okay..... sorry!

To the OP - while I think that something could possibly happen to someone to introduce them to cross dressing or gender non-conforming things, if a person was not born with some sort of gender variance internally, then they would not be interested in those things.

In other words, when I was a kid, I thought maybe I was TG because I was on a swim team and was forced to shave my body. Thus, if I hadn't been forced to do that, then I would never have done it and would never have learned that I like it. Sounds pretty good huh? Well it is crap. I was thrilled to be able to have a legitimate excuse to finally be able to shave off my nasty body hair! Oh and as well, none of the other males I swam with ever seemed to be so thrilled at the prospect of shaving and as soon as they were allowed readily grew theirs back, while I continued to find excuses to insist that I needed to shave. Shaving only appealed to me, unlike others, because of something that was going on inside of me, and not the external influences.