[Pansy-Mae]

sfem,
I'm sure you are right about those in denial to themselves.
That is one thing that, although I can understand at a theoretical level, I find odd on a personal basis. If anyone ought to have been uncomfortable with this self knowledge, I should have... Not only did I have a strict Baptist upbringing - church 3 times on Sundays and couple of times at least during the week and no social life outside the church community, but also I went to 'boys only' schools from the age of 7 until I left school at 18. Yet my active cross-dressing started when I was 12 or so and never ever felt wrong to me - sure I had to keep it well and truly hidden, but it didn't feel wrong even though it ran contrary to everything I was brought up to believe was right, natural, normal, whatever.
I can but think that it has something to do with what I've said before about the male-female spectrum and where we naturally are on it. It seems to me that the paper that this thread was originally based on has a lot going for it in terms of that idea as well.