I am heterosexual in terms of actual behavior. In choosing friends and associates, I consider sexual orientation to be a non-factor. I think sexual orientation is a personal matter that is totally unrelated to morality, character, values (in non-sexual respects), or worth as a human being. It obviously would be important in dating, but so would height, weight, eye color, and a thousand other things that might have some idiosyncratic importance to a person. In choosing my associations, deciding whom I respect, and practically all of my day-to-day decisions, I really don’t care if a person is gay, lesbian, straight, or whatever.
I dress, on the average, about once a week. During the work week, I typically stay in male-mode. On weekends, I typically spend at least a day in female-mode, although there are exceptions. A few times a year, I attend a transgender event such as the
En Femme Getaway, where 100 or more people socialize together for several days in female-mode. If someone said I was a MTF transvestite, I would have no problem with that label. I am “out” to a few people, but not to the world in general. Some of my heros are the genetic women who accept us as we are.
