The appropriate labels were unknown to me. I heard gay and crossdresser. Those were the better names.
It was not until the Phil Donahue show in the 1980's, when he began to interview heterosexual crossdressers that I knew I was not alone.
Now with acceptance growing and the internet allowing us to network, it seems there are millions of us. I have read attempts to determine our population. But who knows and I do not care.
But we are many. Here is a Pinterest board showing our beautiful community. I added a few pictures of myself.
Like you I thought I was the only person in the world like this. It wasn't until I saw a magazine article that gave an update on what Christine Jorgenson was doing lately that I knew there was someone else like me. Then, in 1997 I went from never knowingly met another transgender person to sitting in a room with 500 people like me at Southern Comfort Conference. Now days, I've heard the estimate of 4% of the population being trans.
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