Quote Originally Posted by Lorileah View Post
.......... Being in the closet won't gain yu acceptance, in fact it reinforces the negativity associated with the community. If you are ashamed of yourself,m then everyone else will be ashamed of you also.
I'm not ashamed of my penis but that doesn't make it appropriate to prance around my neighborhood buck naked.

What you and some other folks seem to forget from time to time is that the term "crossdressing" encompasses a wide spectrum of males dressing as females. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe you are a more or less "full time" crossdresser. You live and work dressed as a woman. Most of the members here are not in that situation. Some are coming to this forum to find out what size panties or bra they should be wearing. Others are asking how to hide their dressing from their wives or how to tell them about it without losing them. Many crossdressers here wear things like ballet outfits, wedding gowns or "hooker" outfits that most actual women would not wear in public.

Individual crossdresser's choices on being "out", in the closet or somewhere in between are based on their personal situations and it would be best if others would respect those decisions. There shouldn't be any implied ranking of the worth of an individual based on his willingness to expose his dressing to the outside world.

Maybe there should be two separate sections here, one for casual or part time dressers and one for serious and full time dressers.