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Some Frequently Asked Questions
Here are some answers to basic questions about crossdressing for those wanting to find out more about what may appear to be a puzzling phenomenon. Wives, partners and family members will find this useful to help them make some sense of and correct any misconceptions about crossdressing.
What is a crossdresser?
"Crossdresser", "transvestite" or "transgender person" are terms used to describe a person who regularly takes on the appearance of the opposite sex in order to satisfy a deep personal need.
We use and prefer the term "crossdresser" as it is less limiting and coloured by common usage.
Above all, however, a crossdresser is a real person.
What causes crossdressing?
What causes a person born physically male to need to dress and behave as a female (and vice-versa) in order to have peace of mind?
There is no present definitive answer. The currently favored medical opinion is the crossdressing is "multi-causal". This means that there appears to be a genetic predisposition and a prenatal hormonal basis for a person's gender identity - the mental perception an individual has about his or her gender - which, though subject to social influences, is independent of a person's physical sexual identity. It is currently estimated that about one out of every hundred people born have a personal gender identity which does not comfortably correspond with that person's physical sex.
Crossdressing is simply the outward expression by such a person of this essential gender identity, and crossdressing is thus no less real or compelling for this person than the expression by the average male and female of their masculinity and femininity.
Is there a cure?
There is no cure for crossdressing for the simple reason that being a crossdresser is not an illness but a state of being. Cross dressers are "born and not made".
Is crossdressing new?
Throughout recorded history, and in every human culture, there have always been crossdressers . We simply seem to have been included in the "Great Plan" of things. In many societies crossdressers have been accepted for the reality they represent and their uniqueness has been utilised by such societies for the common good. It is a culture's attitude to crossdressing that determines whether crossdressing is or is not a "problem" to that culture.
What type of people are crossdressers?
Crossdressers come from all walks of life and every strata of society. Spouses, parents, children and friends are crossdressers. There are no distinctions.
Is crossdressing illegal or immoral?
There is nothing in the act of crossdressing that offends any law in mainland Australia or in most of the world. Most major religions do not consider the act of crossdressing immoral. Whilst the Old Testament, in Deuteronomy 22:5, forbids crossdressing (including women wearing men's clothes), it also forbids the wearing of clothes of mixed fibres and many other strange rules. The New Testament specifies that Christians are not bound by the laws of the Old Testament.
Does crossdressing influence sexuality?
A person's sexual preference or sexuality is independent of their mental gender identity. Human sexual diversity exists amongst crossdressers in the same basic proportions as it does in the general community. In fact, as crossdressers are part of the general community, the "average" crossdresser is likely to be heterosexual, to have married and to have children.
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Wisdom DevelopmentFormerly known as Crossdress with Dignity, this is the most highly regarded transformation service in Sydney, run by a crossdresser and wife, Kenike and Madeline, offering discrete and expert assistance in becoming the girl of your dreams.
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This month's meetingsFriday 23rd July: Committee Meeting.
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The Breast Form Store
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Partners & Family Support Program.We offer a contact phone specifically for for wives/partners and families of members of the Society. This phone is operated by the wives and partners of crossdressers. These ladies have volunteered to try and help other wives, partners and family members to understand crossdressing. To contact them, please phone: |
                    
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