Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-4877635-20130614170253/@comment-1916997-20130802224546

I think your associating cross dressing for being transgender. Cross dressing could be done for many reasons, maybe as a joke, a halloween costume, or even for a play because you are playing a character of the other gender (think the ugly stepsisters in Cinderella, they are useally played by men in plays, to emphasize their uglyness, but in the context of the play are supposted to be just very ugly women). Being transgender means you mentally and emotionally associate your self with the oppisite gender of your biological sex. While dressing as the gender you associate is one of the things done, many transgender also take hormones of the gender they want to be to give them the machuline or feminine traits they are missing. Many also have surgery to alter the parts of the body that simple hormone treatment will not reverse (i.e. the parts of the body that are only are male or female only). So while you could say everyone (or almost everyone) who is transgender "cross dresses" (although they are doing it because they mentally associate with the sex they would be dressing as), everyone who cross dresses is not transgender.