Survival and the Trans Girl
Here in Cyrsti's Condo recently, we have been exploring the relationship between cross dressers and LGBT transgender women. As happens so many times around here, a couple of you regulars bring another sense of clarity to the subject. As in this comment from Connie" " For me, being a transgender woman involved cross dressing as a means of survival until I could finally express and present myself completely. It was a combination of luck and a lot of hard work. The middle-ground became less and less an option, although I remained there for many years. I could no longer be disingenuous, however, and I believe that those close to me could sense that, as well. Had I been satisfied with occasional cross dressing, I would not have felt myself to be disingenuous. As I am a musician and performer, I could easily have been a drag performer, but I never saw myself as one. My wife, in our early conversations, thought it to be acceptable for me to combine my "passion" fo