Halloween costumes

[Terra]

Tonight i'm going to a benefit party for the hospital that is also a costume party. Frankly my costume of a male card player is a mix match of various boy cloths I still have left and i'm to poor and to late to try to find a different costume. So a male card shark it is!

I'm going with two of my friends who have been very supportive of me, but say its weird that i'm going as a guy. So that got me thinking, and thinking led to this poll. So weigh in guys and gals, what do you think of dressing as your birth sex on Halloween? Or any day for that matter?

[Between Names]

Well, this year I'm going to be a male for Halloween for the first time ever, so I'm pretty excited about that.

But in the future, after T and top surgery, I think it'd be fun to go crazy on Halloween and dress as a female character.  That's what Halloween is about for me.  Dressing up and having fun. 

[lizbeth]

hahaha, a couple friends suggested that I go to a costume party as a dude, but I jokingly just told them there was no way I could pull that off!, we laughed, we laughed...

[Calistine]

Im an ftm and I was a fairy princess it was so much fun! I love being a guy in drag XDDD

[Imadique]

Yes it is wrong, you should have all your trans merit badges stripped for it 

[gothique11]

I'm going as a drag king. 

[Bellaon7]

I'm gonna totally wrap myself up in gauze & tape a long white string on top of my head!

[K8]

Go as whatever.  You friends may have said that because they are having a little trouble making the shift and this just confuses them.  Or not.  

For me, I don't think I'm far enough along becoming Kate to be comfortable dressed as a guy.  I was talking to my daughter about this.  She suggested that I dress as something non-gendered - like a carrot.

- Kate

[LordKAT]

Kate the Carrot.....has a ring to it somehow.

[Jay]

Not for Halloween I don't! I think it's a laugh at the weekend my ex took a picture of me in my ex's 7inch heels I couldn't help but laugh. But sympathise with women who wear heels..

Jay

[Terra]

Well I expected that not many would have a problem with it on Halloween. In fact everyone says its fun to do and I agree. But what about the rest of the year? Has anyone just gotten the urge to dress like a boy or girl again if only for a day?

Hmm, two people thought it wrong to dress on Halloween. Wonder why?

[LordKAT]

No way no how. Never had the urge to cross dress before why would I now?

[Alyssa M.]

Okay, I accidentally answered "no," but I meant "yes," it would be wrong -- for me.

I've worn a male costume for long enough, and never much enjoyed it. I never had any interest in guy costumes for Halloween, and the few times I went in a girl costume, it was uncomfortable, because people saw it as a crazy parody. After being full-time for several months, I spent a weekend with family in boy mode, and it was so awful that I won't do it again. I've had my fill.

[K8]

When I was thought to be a man, I was a cross-dresser but never wanted to dress as a woman in costume because I knew I was too serious about it to pull it off.  (No sense of humor about it, which ruins the fun.)

Now that I am a woman full-time, the very idea of putting on male clothing is somehow repugnant to me.  I know that's weird, but that's just me.

- Kate

[Inphyy]

Funny thing is I was thinking about being an guy for Halloween but then I was like "Nahhh!", So it's weird---LOL! I just don't see myself as an guy anymore.

[Terra]

No way no how. Never had the urge to cross dress before why would I now?

Hmm, I guess it would depend on your definition of what cross dressing is. It may sound odd but the more I live as a woman in this town i've come to discover that i'm not really a woman. Then again i'm not really a man either. I'm a hybrid due to my upbringing, and given the choice I would love to switch between the two. But since society won't let me I would prefer to present as female. But I definitely have 'male' traits I won't give up, such as my desire to protect my loved ones physically or my refusal to cry over myself or petty emotions.

It was this kinda thinking that led to Halloween and the resulting poll. I wonder if that makes me Bi-gendered?

[gothique11]

The only other time I went in drag was when I did a drag king show over a year ago. I sometimes wear boy clothes, however, but it's probably 'cause I get away with it. I just look a lot more dykey. When I go in drag, I paint on facial hair... other wise it doesn't work out. o_0

But, then again, I'm kinda strange. Just before my surgery last year I buzzed my hair but kept the front bangs long. I thought it was pretty neat, although ppl were wondering why I cut my long hair off. *shrugs* I think the only people that really made a stink of it were other trans folk. Same when I did a drag king show, other trans folk made a huge stink of it and were even threatening to call my doctors and tell them that I'm not really "trans" and to call of my surgery. Yeah, true story. They were pretty mad.

I almost didn't do the show, but then I decided to anyway because I wasn't in transition for them, but for myself. I know who I am and that's what mattered most -- not others who felt I wasn't being girlie enough. Heck, I even had other trans folk mention the fact that I barely ever wore dresses - ever. I still don't wear dresses very often.

And, of course, I got my SRS letters and I had surgery. I went into Brassard's with that shaved head, long front bangs look. 

At the moment, I'm letting my hair grow long again, although. But not because that's what's expected of me, but because I want to. Same with make up. I don't always wear make up (I usually don't, actually), but if I do decide to wear make up I wear it for myself, because I want to. I find it liberating.

Maybe it all stems from my past, where I felt like I had to fit into a mold for others. And, I guess, I just felt like I couldn't just go from one mold to the other. I didn't wanna people impress and just be my own person all together.

So, yeah, sometimes you'll see me in some boy tee, or in a boy hoodie. You'll see me not wearing make up. Maybe I'll have short hair or some wild crazy hair. But, other times you might see me in a skirt or dress, make up done to the nines, long pretty hair, and looking very feminine. That's just how I roll. 

[Alyssa M.]

Just before my surgery last year I buzzed my hair but kept the front bangs long. I thought it was pretty neat, although ppl were wondering why I cut my long hair off. *shrugs* I think the only people that really made a stink of it were other trans folk. Same when I did a drag king show, other trans folk made a huge stink of it and were even threatening to call my doctors and tell them that I'm not really "trans" and to call of my surgery. Yeah, true story. They were pretty mad.

Natalie, you rock.

[LordKAT]

Hmm, I guess it would depend on your definition of what cross dressing is.

I never dressed female once past the forced part as a young child. never wanted to and still don't want to. It just feels wrong and weird and....(hard to describe but wrong).

[JonasCarminis]

i actually dressed up as a geisha this year.   so yes, i did dress as a girl, and no i dont think its wrong.