Maria, I get what you mean: "If I was born in this day and age, if I would become a cross dresser?" I am a child of the 1950's (77 now). When I was a little kid and pre-puberty I had zero interest in girls or anything related to girls. It was sports, playing cowboys & Indians or war, playing with cars in the dirt, riding bikes, etc. Women in my neighborhood did not wear pants. There was one woman who did and she was shunned by the other women. Enter puberty and something clicked with the raging hormones. Why did I gravitate to my mother's clothing which was the only outlet for female attire; having no female cousins and no sister until I was twelve. I have to assume, given the same genetic profile, I was feel the need or pull to wear in feminized male attire. When I affirm on this site that it's dresses, heels and hosiery for me, it is because that is what I grew up with. In the days before mega sized department stores in my community (Had to go to Herald Square for Macy's and Gimbel's) it was women's stores whose mannequins were adorned with dresses and foundation garments.
I understand a woman's desire to wear comfortable clothes. When my wife and I waited for the Flushing line train to roll into the station to get to work, she cursed the frigid temperatures and the office dress code that required dresses/skirts, heels and hosiery. My wife was drop dead gorgeous (still is) and knew the power of her body and how it was adorned. Maybe it was the times of the allure of the forbidden that, perhaps, women knew what attracted men? Now? I see more cleavage and almost bare butts on television than I ever saw in my youth with the exception of Playboy magazine.
