This may stir up some opinions but I had an interesting conversation with my therapist last week regarding cross-dressing vs transgender. She said that the current belief of many in the Psych community is that being transgender and being a cross-dresser are not two separate things but are now considered to be just different points along the same spectrum. I thought it was an interesting view. She did ultimately say that I have gender dysphoria and am transgender but my diagnosis isn't the point. The point is that she states that the current view is that CD and trans are the same thing just different places on the spectrum. My therapist is a recently minted PsyD and IMHO very intelligent and is part of the transgender clinic at a major university so she has credentials.