Psych's Opinion

[Zooey]

To several people here... If I were you, I would be VERY careful about trying to apply research done on transexual women to crossdressers.

The fact that you refer to females as "the weaker sex" partially answers your own question. Historically, women have been marginalized and devalued. That a man would want to drop down to that level of lesser privilege makes him weak in the eyes of those who view women as less than men. So that's part of the problem.

This. This is also one reason why there is often friction between CDs/fluid-expressing people and women (cis and trans). You claim/appropriate all of the "fun" stuff, including (in some cases) the identity of woman, without actually giving up any of your privilege and power. It's like white college kids wearing dreadlocks and claiming to be rastafari.