Crossdresser or Trans

[Northern Star Girl ✅]

To eleaborate and restate last week's reply comments from @Allie Jayne and from  @Lori Dee
The following is an EXCERPT from our site's Standard Terms and Definitions on Susan's Place
                                    https://www.susans.org/index.php?topic=54369.msg337984#msg337984

Transgender: An inclusive umbrella term for anyone whose sex was incorrectly assigned at birth — for any reason, to any degree, for any length of time.
This includes but is not limited to trans women, trans men, intersex, non-binary, genderqueer and genderfluid, agender, crossdressers, drag kings and queens, and people whose cultures have traditional recognition of genders beyond the binary (such as Two-Spirit, Hijra, Fa'afafine, Māhū, and others).
In short: anyone experiencing, exploring, or expressing gender beyond conventional cisgender roles.

On this site, you are both!

Community Definitions:

Transgender: An inclusive umbrella term for anyone whose sex was incorrectly assigned at birth — for any reason, to any degree, for any length of time.

This includes but is not limited to trans women, trans men, intersex, non-binary, genderqueer and genderfluid, agender, crossdressers, drag kings and queens, and people whose cultures have traditional recognition of genders beyond the binary (such as Two-Spirit, Hijra, Fa'afafine, Māhū, and others).

In short: anyone experiencing, exploring, or expressing gender beyond conventional cisgender roles.

This term describes a broad range of lived experiences and does not imply any specific appearance, behavior, medical history, or transition path.

But I see where you are coming from. You are questioning if you just like wearing womens clothes, or if you need to be a woman. Only you can answer this.

My take on this is are you gender incongruent? Are you uncomfortable with your assigned sex, and is your discomfort lessened when you affirm your gender identity by dressing? If so, maybe you are not 'just a crossdresser'.

Many of us who are gender incongruent go through a phase of 'crossdressing', then eventually we may learn that the enjoyment felt when dressing is actually relief from living in the incorrect gender role. When we dress to affirm our gender identity, we feel 'at home', or 'true to our real self'. Many simply get enjoyment from dressing to challenge social norms, to participate in beauty, or maybe to achieve sexual pleasure. The difference would seem to be relief from a socially forced gender role, or pleasure from an activity.

The answer may only become clear with time.

Hugs,

Allie

Kellie,

Susan has written a wonderful article about this. Check out:
https://www.susans.org/index.php/topic,247148.msg2262144.html#msg2262144

[Dawn Kellie]

I may have stated things incorrectly.
I feel a part of me that has been suppressed is coming out. I do so enjoy wearing womans clothes. It's not a fetish thing. I truly enjoy have in womens clothing.  I look at my painted toes with accesorios on and feel this is so normal feeling, all the way down to the pedicure. I've always wondered why cant i wear makeup ir some of the wonderful clothing women wear.
I feel my normal is awakening to something that needs to be worked out in therapy. When Im behind on laundry and I have to wear men's only items I'm missing part of my expression.