Originally Posted by
Eva Diva
I hope you weren't actually spurned. :D
Yep! :D
The reason that you started this thread is that youknow that some CDers on this site do. Let me rephrase that sentence for you.
I find it hard to believe that there is any legitimate justification for any CDers on this site to object/deny/ argue that they fall under the Transgender category in the gender spectrum
Now I can discuss your proposition. Trans, from Latin, means "on the opposite side". So, assuming there is a gender "spectrum", transgender means "of the opposite gender", or "being the opposite gender". If I say that you are on the opposite side of the river, I don't mean that you are in the middle of the river, on your way across. In current usage, a transgendered person is either a person who has undergone medical treatment and/or surgery to change the appearance of their body to the opposite of their anatomical gender, or a person who seeks to do the same and/or feels/identifies themselves as having the consciousness of gender identity of the opposite anatomical gender - that is, "woman trapped in a man's body" syndrome.
So accepting your metaphor of a gender "spectrum", a transgender person would be at the far end of their anatomical gender. That person would have the anatomical gender of a woman, but would "know" deep in their psyche that they "are" a man. Not feel like a man, or take pleasure from dressing as a man, but "be" a man. The transgender ideology takes it as a given that self-identification trumps anatomy - which is exactly where it crashes into the commonsense gender definition of society, where anatomy is destiny. When a man says "I'm a woman trapped in a man's body", straight society says, "No, you're a man with a nutty brain trapped inside it".
Going back to your statement - rephrased by your's truly :D - you are actually asking why all crossdressers don't identify themselves at the far end of the gender spectrum. Your obvious mistake is that you allow no middle ground along your own spectrum. A rainbow has many colors, no?
