Androgynous crossdreamer

I hereby declare myself to be an androgynous crossdreamer.

By 'androgynous' I do not mean 'presents as on borderline between genders', but 'identifies as having inner femaleness and inner maleness'.

The two parts are equally real and deep. The female part is not a trivial fetish, the male part is not a mask.

Perhaps the term could be useful for others to consider. Androgynous crossdreamers are different from (in mtf terms):

a) Transsexual crossdreamers, who are inwardly predominantly female.

b) Cisgender crossdreamers, who are inwardly predominantly male.

For the transsexual the femaleness of the whole needs to be accepted. Transitioning can be an outward realisation of this.

For the cisgender crossdreamer, crossdreaming needs to be acknowledged as a sexual characteristic that does not indicate a more general femininity. Sexual feelings derive from obscure places in strange ways.

For the androgynous crossdreamer the male and female parts need to like each other, and live together in cooperation, not conflict.

For the androgynous mtf crossdreamer the male part will be most evident in outer dealings, the female part in sexuality.

These three types of crossdreamers should appreciate each other's difference and not interpret the two other sorts as being like themselves really but not realising or admitting it. But we are all crossdreamers, so we can all be sympathetic friends to each other.


[Note to the philosophically and scientifically minded: I am not assuming (or rejecting) biological essence. What causes androgyny, transsexualism?I don't know; I don't need to know. By 'self' I  mean 'the person I have become', by 'female/male' I mean 'as those identities are comprehended within our culture'. By 'inner' I mean 'within the self's consciousness'. Whatever their origin, none of these characteristics can be easily changed, perhaps they cannot be changed at all. The argument about essence is divisive and not crucial for crossdreamers' positive development. Biological? Non-biological? Leave that to washing powders.]