Do Not Confuse

Do not confuse crossdressing with being transgender. They are totally different catagories of people and while a few crossdressers eventually recognize themselves as transgender the overwhelming majority of crossdressers are not transgender, meaning identifying as someone who's gender is not mostly if not completey their birth sex.

This is supported by the DSM-V which separates crossdressing out of catagory of transgender and into its own catagory about crossdressing for personal or sexual pleasaure. Crossdressers don't need therapy, and in fact it's against the professional psychological and psychiatric associations to require therapy, and only if it creates a problem with their personal or professional life, but not the crossdressing itself.

The term transgender is an umbrella term which is almost totally meaningless and only in the context of the person using it as the definition varys with every individual to include or exclude some groups under the umbrella or as separate independent groups.

And the term has been and is slipping out of any useful context as many people identify as other catagories, if any catagory other than just being themselves as man, woman or both, which is outside the umbrella. It's simply the diversity of human identity and expression.

But the point here is that almost all crossdressers are not transgender. It's just a personal hobby of theirs for whatever purpose or goal they choose and taken to the extreme they want. It's not anything other than that, and the person does not have issues between their sex and gender.

Crossdressing is about pretending and being transgender or whatever label you want is about being. So don't put them in the same content or context.