This is probably the granddaddy of all crossdrser myths: crossdrsers are gay. More often than not, 's the first qutn asked of a crossdrser after g out to (or beg outed by) a non-crossdrser - "Are you gay?" It do get tirome after a while. Myth: Crossdrsers are gay bee they drs women's cloth. Fact: Most crossdrsers are straight, but some of them are gay. Ever wonr where this myth me om the first place?
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CROSSDRSG MYTH #1: CROSSDRSERS ARE GAY
There are people who cross drs who are not transgenr or bi or gay. I was workg on my tax, and I was watchg rens of M*A*S*H, and Jamie Farr as rporal Klger was the episo. Clearly Max is not LGBTQ, he is a posr, attemptg to e... * is crossdressing gay *
When a male starts wearg the pk and illy stuff -- spe not beg gay or transng to female -- nf the ever-lovg fuck out of most people. Gay men tend to get annoyed and believe we don't know what their stggle is like, bisexuals seem to fd nfg bee many assume mixg genrs would mean likg both.
ARE ALL CROSS DRSERS GAY? TRANSGENR? IS IT A SEXUAL FETISH?
Let me put this way: I'm a crossdrser who has no issu puttg myself out there on the terwebs or stttg about public om time to time, but to date, the most hostily I've enuntered has not been om the homophobic fuckws you'd expect, but om trans women.
And even they tend to make the assumptn we talked about earlier -- that if you're not gay or transng, then mt be a sexual kk. Sce my only ame of reference was bad jok or sexual fetish or gay men, I thought "Well I mt be at least bisexual, " so I spent a lot of time tryg to f a square peg a round hole before fally beg able to separate sexual orientatn om genr inty.
Although cross drsers are not necsarily homosexual, before homosexualy was legalised any man who went out drsed as a woman uld be arrted, subjected to police btaly, attacked the street, vulnerable to blackmail, and be publicly huiated. Thgs have improved over time, but this is still somethg that is misunrstood and a potential source of fear and of genr and sexualy are not bary – mascule/feme, gay/straight.