[Carmen]

Rhtwo...many of your thoughts here reflect several of my own. Primarily is the misnomer that CD's are only exhibitionists drag queens.
I've crossdressed for many years. As I've always been a lean machine mildly athletic guy, it was easy to wear female attire and wear it well!
I'm a million light years away from the desire to be a drag queen. I just wanted the ability to pass through Alice's mirror and for a short time experience 
the feminine side of life in the public eye.

However as you wrote we are always male, but with the unending desire to be female. This has plagued me for as long as I've been alive.
My brain is just wired that way. I grew up in the 60's, meaning that there was no mass media influence as we have today. 
I have always been fascinated by the female form.
Yeah it's great to be a man, but men are limited to how they are to behave. 
Women have the luxury of wearing anything they want to including male attire, and no one criticizes that!
And women's clothing and styles can span a far wider spectrum than the male stuff ever will.
Male clothes are simply boring.

Anyhoo, I hope that my words have shed some light on a subject that will never go away.