Quote Originally Posted by Christina Nicole
I shall posit that the thesis rests on a bad assumption. I cannot say that cross dressing is or is not sexual for all cross dressers. However, it is not and has not been sexual for me. I started cross dressing when I was about 6 or 7 years old. Nothing was sexual at that time. I do tend more towards being a woman, that is a transsexual than a simple cross dresser, unlike most of the guys here. I do not know if that weighs into the equation.
Now, the (my) assumption is that CDing or being TS doesn't have a sexual origin, but is gender-identity related in general.
But because gender related things necessarily have something to do with sexuality, the sexual aspect may or may not be set on top of the gender-identity origin (more likely for CDs than TSs, probably) and may even cover it to an extend that it seems to be the dominating factor. In particular for MTFs where a (partly) female gender-identity clashes with a male sexuality.
I myself can date back my first gender-identity episodes to the age of 4 or 5 (non-sexual), I had this clash of gender-identity and male sexuality (predominately while adolescence, but later too) and had some work to do to uncover the origin of my CDing again (didn't make me asexual, but I think it is a different sexuality since)
BTW: being a CD is not that simple. Maybe different but not simple. What is simple crossdresser anyway ?