Transvestites: Did any childhood experiences lead you to be as you are?

Question

I am asking particularly for those of you who give yourself a name of gender you adopt, and dress fully in your role.
Can you identify any childhood experiences which led you identify with the opposite sex?

Answer 1

I'd have to say the times that my aunt dressed me up as her niece when she was baby sitting me had an effect, plus the times I played dress-up with the girls across the street when their mom was watching me, plus that new years eve when my friend said his sister kept her bras in his dresser and he dared me to try one on and his sister caught me and dressed me up as a girl for the rest of the night, plus the weekend I was with my little league friend and he called me into the bathroom and said let's dress-up like girls as he was putting on his sister's eye shadow and told him I'd give it a try and did dress-up as a girl and we spent that weekend and many others dressed as girls, plus on every Halloween after that we'd both dress-up like girls, usually cheerleaders to go Trick-or-Treating and for the parities too. Plus there was the time my mom dressed me up as a girl in a tennis dress for a Boy Scout Halloween party and I went to school the next day wearing my neighbors school girl uniform, Halloween was always much more fun back in those days.

Answer 2

My husband is a cross dresser. He has told me that he has always had the desire or need to dress in womans clothing. There was no special event that happened that brought this about. He says that he has felt that way since he was about 5 years old. He is the youngest of 6 children 4 boys, 2 girls. He had both a mother and father while growing up...

He has a girls name for when he goes out and he will only go out in public fully dressed with makeup.

Answer 3

Im a cross dresser, (female to male) i dont think i was influenced by anything in childhood.

You could argue that the death of my father caused me to adopt a male role. But i dont think so. First of all i knew i felt happy in male clothes before he died, my sister is not a transvestite and there are many cross dressers from 'normal' familys.

Answer 4

I am not answering your question just want to react to ToniF's response.
Toni F claims to be XXXY He is apparently offended by this question, and I cannot understand why.
Many things we do, we do because of life experience, many hobbies we have, we have because of life experience, I play draughts because of life experience, does Tony F believe that if I never knew of the game of Draughts that somehow I would invent the game because it was my destiny?

If neither men or women wore clothes could there be transvestites?
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AoYtLw__vNp7DglrBgTbU8wgBgx.?qid=20070626085540AAvuddI

No one else seems offended by the question so if Toni F edits his email onto his answer I will be happy to email him, and debate with him.
I do not allow everyone on yahoo answers to email direct because I do not invite spam.

Answer 5

I have talked with many ts/tv/cd ladies and they all felt that this is what they were always meant to be. nothing happened to change them, it was part of who they are. some didn't realize it or want to admit it until they were much older in life. Others knew during childhood that they were different, and started early in life.

Answer 6

To the first guy that answered. Transvestism is not the same thing as transsexualism. Transvestites don't wish to be women. They're straight males that get a sexual turn on by wearing women's clothing. What you're describing is transsexualism.

Answer 7

I've known a good many TVs/CDs and for those I've spoken with in detail nothing in their childhood (that they remember, anyways) could be construed as a "likely cause" it just was part of who they were. No real rhyme or reason.

Answer 8

This question really pisses me off and ain't it funny that these people will not accept e-mails, what they frightened of, is it the fact that we may attack them with our brollies?

Tell me what unnatural childhood experience lead you to the unnatural gender that you have adopted?

Why the fuk can't these stupid people understand that being a transvestite is as natural as being an unnatural heterosexual, all of these people are unnatural for wanting to have sex with the opposite gender!

When we get a cure for heterosexual people to stop being heterosexuals, then at that time kids who are born as transvestites can stop being asked stupid questions

I was born an Intersexuail, being both sexes

Answer 9

I remember wearing pantyhose when I was three or four, but I think that I did it because I felt comfortable wearing them, because of who I was, when I was born. I haven't stopped wearing anything girly ever since. My girlfriend likes to do my make-up and nails, she also likes me to dress frequently. My first marriage wasn't even close to what I have now.

Answer 10

i was born this way, my gender is same sex, i dress as a man as i am male, my exp i cannot be opposit sex as i am same sex, those of you out there who know of this will agree.