Is there really a woman within?

[GaleWarning]

I am the same donnalee. I believe my personality is the same, whatever I am wearing.

[CayleeMarie]

For me, I would not say that I have a woman within. There is definitely a female side to my personality. In an effort to help my wife, and the couple we have come out to, I use the analogy that I have an alter ego, and she is female. That helps to compartmentalize my dressing into something with a label that is easier to accept. In many ways it helps my wife accept this facet of my personality when I refer to my female persona as she or her and that she is only a small part of the complete me. I am very fortunate to have a wife and close friends that accept my dressing, and if using a second person pronoun helps to maintain that acceptance then I am more than willing to continue doing it.

[Alice Torn]

Caylee, I like your term of "alter ego". I think that is what i really have, too. Not really a woman.