I have done some pretty non-scientific research into this and have got some pretty interesting results.  I have met a few crossdressers who have also had other crossdressers in their family and I originally thought that maybe it was a case of son trying to imitate and be like dad, but just a phase.  That was until I came out to my parents.

After about 20 years of hiding my secret from my parents, I ended up in the hospital and met a therapist that helped me to tell them.  As I revealed my secret to my parents, my parents revealed their secret to me.  My dad was also a crossdresser.  He fought it and suppressed it for years all the way to the day he died.

My question is this: How many of you have had similar experiences?

Does crossdressing run in your family?

I don't know if I do but it wouldn't surprise me if I did.

Gennee

I do not think my dad was a crossdresser, and sadly I will never know.  I do not know about my son.  He does not know that I am a crossdresser.

I did read an artical about homosexuality running in more concentrated clusters in families, I would assume that similar tendencies would also apply to gender identity even though for the most part they are entirely unrelated.

I've wondered the same thing. Perhaps we are predisposed to certain behaviour and all it takes are the right conditions to trigger it. Some people are predisposed, some arn't.

Perhaps these things are common enough that when there is a family history it looks like they are related events?

yes i know it does run in my family.

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I would say that GID does run in families, not just crossdressing.  I know of one instance where "father" and "son" are both MtF TS.  I also know of a MtF TS whose father was CD and whose "daughter" is FtM.  In none of these families was anyone aware of anyone else in the family being TG until adulthood.

Beverly

I don't think my father did that.  But I have a son who is 4 years old and he likes to put on the clothes of his sister sometimes. Then when my wife makes remarks I tell her sometimes the apple does not fall far from the three and that I don't want to criticise my son for something I do myself.

My son tells me that it is not allowed for boys to wear the clothes of their sisters but sometimes at home it is allowed anyhow he says.

I wonder if it might be genetic. Errant gene that causes GID?

I'm not too sure about my dad but I came about 10 years ago and about four months ago my brother came out to the family.  And come to find out that he had been a CD longer than I had been but just kept it in the closet for the longest time.

I've always wondered about this.  Recently I was shown a pic of my great grandparents (I never knew them), both presenting as the opposite gender.  Everyone else in the family gets a good laugh and assumes it was all a joke.  I wonder.

Kristi