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LGBT Civil Rights and Activism

uhnope

(6,419 posts) Wed Jul 29, 2015, 01:19 PM Jul 2015

I was wondering recently why transgender acceptance has happened before cross-dressing acceptance

In other words, there was never a major movement of straight men who wanted to be public figures while cross dressing, like there are now people like Transgender Inside Edition reporter Zoey Tur.

Any thoughts? I could speculate but that's all it would be.

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I was wondering recently why transgender acceptance has happened before cross-dressing acceptance (Original Post) uhnope Jul 2015 OP

im confused beergood Aug 2015 #1

Because being transgender is viewed as legitimate needing major medical intervention. MillennialDem Sep 2015 #2

Could you give us some details on that? uhnope Sep 2015 #3

beergood

(470 posts)

1. im confused

Reply to uhnope (Original post)

Mon Aug 24, 2015, 04:17 PM

Aug 2015

could you elaborate?

MillennialDem

(2,367 posts)

2. Because being transgender is viewed as legitimate needing major medical intervention.

Reply to uhnope (Original post)

Wed Sep 23, 2015, 08:43 AM

Sep 2015

uhnope

(6,419 posts)

3. Could you give us some details on that?

Reply to MillennialDem (Reply #2)

Wed Sep 23, 2015, 02:27 PM

Sep 2015

1. Is being a cross-dresser viewed as less legitimate than being transgender?

2. About the major medical intervention, do you mean that because medical intervention is expensive, the profit-motive has helped spur the societal acceptance?

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