Not sure I agree. How finely are we going to split the hair?

Quote Originally Posted by Zooey View Post
To several people here... If I were you, I would be VERY careful about trying to apply research done on transexual women to crossdressers.

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.
The research is suggesting gender identification is a spectrum. If you put cis females on one end and cis males on the other, the middle is where the trans community fits. If we CDers are not in the middle, and we aren't at either end, where are we. Not sure transgender women and men can claim that whole middle as their private territory simply because they chose to transition and we haven't. Really, don't we all have enough challenges dealing with social pressures without turning on each other. How petty can we get.

Most of us have come to this at very early ages (5 and under). I think it was around 80% arrived here prior to 13 years old. Are you suggesting that if you a trans women maybe your brain is wired differently but for CDers this can't be true?

You pretty much leave us no other option than to be freaks.

It might be more of a case of white kids hanging out and claiming to be Irish or English or Canadian or American.