The Admirable Transvestite
By JT Brien
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There are transvestites who only dress in private and there are those who live and work as women, and the former do not always envy the latter. Each situation has its own costs, not all of which are obvious. As with any hobby, it is up to each man to decide just how far he wants to go, and whether he is prepared to pay the price. This article is an examination of the various types of transvestite, the satisfaction they enjoy, and the price they and those for whom they are responsible have to pay for them. It has been written with the intention that:-
Those who know and are concerned about a transvestite may have some of their more irrational fears and anxieties relieved and be able to talk freely and knowledgably to him about what he does and how it affects them both.
Transvestites may be able to understand the motives behind what they do, and the consequences thereof.
As a result, they may be able to choose freely and responsibly where and how they dress.
If any transvestite decides, after reading this article, that dressing up is just not enjoyable enough to justify the time, money and emotional energy he has spent on it, then I will be well content. The best reason not to dress is to have better things to do. Dressing can be exciting, relaxing, interesting, consoling, uplifting, revealing or just good fun, but it is not everything. Although the admirable transvestite sees and enjoys a wider world than most, even that is not all there is. The world is wider, and stranger yet.
The Difference
In the beginning God created all creatures male and female. Every child before it can talk knows the difference and and which it is itself. Indeed, studies show that toddlers barely able to walk know whether other toddlers are male and female. For what it is worth, boy babies spend more time looking at little boys and girl babies at little girls.
The toddlers tell each other apart by the difference in their movements, but adults cannot distinguish such subtle differences. So far as they are concerned, unless they have cause to change the nappy, a little pink baby is a girl and a little blue one is a boy and they will treat them accordingly.
The toddlers react to a natural difference between the sexes, the adults to a cultural one, and just how much of the total difference between men and women is natural and how much is cultural is a question that is the source of continual debate. It is a question of particular interest to transvestites who attempt to find the answer by opposing the natural characteristics of one sex with the cultural ones of the other.
Let us distinguish the two by calling the natural difference - that which distinguishes male from female - sex; and the cultural one - which distinguishes between men and women - gender. God made sex. Man (and woman) made gender. Gender divides human society into two worlds; the world of men and the world of women.
Men and women everywhere not only dress differently, they also use different tools, speak different languages; in almost every respect they are two totally different sorts of people (I am writing now of the world as a whole rather than just the modern industrial section).
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