qBRvxD Thank you for your post.Really looking forward to read more. Will read on

LMDHoO There as certainly a great deal to learn about this topic. I really like all of the points you made.

47b6o5 I think this is a real great article.Much thanks again. Keep writing.

Very interesting essay, with many well-made points.  From my own standpoint, the majority of us love being guys and want to stay guys, but we love gals, too, and admire their clothes and mode of life so much we want to be able to imitate them, at least for a while.  Many times, at great risk.  Throughout the years, many a dainty mini-skirted, pigtailed girl has said to many a trousered crew-cut boy, "I can wear your clothes, but you can't wear mine! Ha, ha!"  Well, we want to be able to.

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Interesting. We are waiting for new messages on the same topic!!....

A unique note..!!

Extremely easy by words but in reality�, a lot of things don't correspond. Not everything is so rosy..!!

VT3PVw I do't regret that spent a few of minutes for reading. Write more often,  surely'll come to read something new!...

I clearly remember my very first TV incident, back in the late 1950s when I was about five.  My mom tolerated my CDing up to a point, and allowed me to wear one of her dresses (with my boy underpants)when we were visited in our apartment by a deliveryman.  I think he was amused.  But I was so fascinated by the idea that half the human race was allowed to dress, appear, and behave differently than the other half, and wanted to participate in that life.

Thanks for this clear and lucid description of 'our' condition.  I'd only beg to differ on the 'mostly single' angle....  I'd guess that there are as many of us married - or co-habiting,  or partnering or whatever you want to call it - married crossdressers as single guys.  We have an extra difficuly that single guys who dress do not - that's whether to tell (or not) our "significant other".. and that means whether to dare to hope for encouragement or risk everything from disclosure by a non-understanding other half.   Many of us wrestle with that dilemma every day.  Big risk!  Thanks for the article.  WbG xx

Hi really enjoyed the article,well written and pretty much covers it all,

I only have one question and hope you can send me your reply,
its about being hetrosexual is it really true as Ive found at least for my self that the longer time I spend dressed the more femm I feel and could possiably have sex with a male not saying I will just if the right circumstances arose well who knows.Bottom line is I really dont buy the str8 thing.

Hope you send me your opinion on this matter,thanks in advance.

Jenny

I really love the way  you write and this essay is pure magic, it has helped me explaining some elements of how I feel, to other people.
I am Mexican and I translated your text to Spanish, I am asking for permission to publish it in a very important Mexican TG forum.
Please write to me either granting or denying this request, I would also like to write to you personaly, I think you are a very brave person and someone I'd really like to talk to.

Kisses
Denise Moreno

Well written commentary! I have been searching for answers to the 'why' question for most of my life. My best, at age 77, is that it is a harmless, symbolic, expression expression of the need for connection that isn't met by marriage. We all think that marriage will "fix it", but find after marriage that it isn't fixed. Nearly everyone, male & female, have expectations that aren't met by marriage, but they usually just bury their dissappointment in their unconscious, 'shadow' (Jungian idea). One theory about romantic love suggests that it is our contrasexual selves that sees their completion through the other's persona. 5 to 7 years later we find it isn't working and must either leave the marriage or 'die' within it. Transvestism allows an accomodation of this contrasexual self without the need for divorce and offers similar relief to the partner.

this is the best descpition i've seen yet, i hope every one one day thinks the same because it's so true. the fact that we do get called what we are not right down to what tend to watch and do and hate was all there. and no one could have said it all better

Very enlightening! I should have given this to my x-wife 30 years ago.
This deserves to be printed on the front page of all daily newspapers!

Where did you get your figures.  (Not that type of figure honey... which most of us get through the mail.)  I've often heard 1% of male population are TVs.  4 to 6%???  No wonder I see larger and larger woman wherever I go!!!

'Manly'   ...    Not too many years ago... before well meaning feminist dismantled the English language... 'man' was used interchangeably with 'human being' or 'person'.  Being manly was simp,y diffentiating ourselves from other living creatures.

Those who demand two separate and distinct sexes are chauvinistic creeps who want to maintain a male-dominated society.

See my story posted on this site which goes into much of this in detail.

By the way... I'm a huge (size 20) Vikings fan who would much rather curl up on the couch, with a game on the tube, in my nightie, than break a nail cooking.

Well said, and very well written.  I AM a TV and I couldn't have said it better.  I hope someday we'll be accepted.

An interesting and thought provoking piece. I don't feel any compulsions to dress but I can now better understand how others might.