Harm? Well, is it harmful to deliberately provoke undesirable public reactions which may or may not be difficult to defuse? As I said above, just being in the vicinity of this person when he was all dolled up was pretty risky. Consequently, he missed out on the pleasure of my company quite a bit ... now, that could be construed as VERY harmful indeed!   ;-)

I agree that in most instances when women dress in 'masculine' mode, they do it for practical reasons -- not as an expression of sexual orientation OR to experience/appropriate the 'powers' of the opposite sex. As a kid I was quite the tomboy.   I resented the restrictions of movement and discomfort imposed by wearing feminine attire - especially garters and nylons (this was in the 60's, before pantyhose) and those stupid foot-bending back-breaking shoes! Besides, I had way too much restless energy to put up with the daily primping and preening and painting 'dressing feminine' entailed, and I put up quite the fuss about it for years. It drove my poor mother up the wall ...

By the time puberty hit, I had more reasons to resent and reject feminine attire. Seemed to me the crippling shoes and skirts/dresses were deliberately designed to facilitate the sexual assaults I had the misfortune of experiencing more times than I care to remember. :-( By the time I was about 16 I'd had enough of my so-called "feminine powers". I think I was seen in a dress maybe 3 times over the next 2 and a half decades - when I got married, and when I had my kids baptized.

I even refused to attend the convocation when I graduated from university, because I'd won a medal and therefore had to sit at the head table with the President and all -- in a dreaded $$%%!!## dress, no less.

Forget it!

In fact, getting to know that crossdresser was VERY good for me. He really threw me for a loop! I was amazed that any man would want to look like a weak lowly ;-) woman in the first place, and as the fellow's wife said in the video I posted above, I did very much respect his determination to be himself, no matter what anyone else did or thought. I could finally see something even just a tad positive in wearing feminine attire, for the first time in a VERY long time! And he did it so well it sparked my competitiveness too -- not to be outdone, I started experimenting with dresses etc again. And happily discovered that the same look it took him hours and hours (plus several pounds of wiry padded underwear :-) to accomplish, I could produce in about 10 minutes flat. Sans makeup OR that godawful uncomfortable underwear. And I ended up looking MUCH better than him, imo! HA!!! It felt so good ... hee hee ....

I remember the shock when, wearing a short summer dress, I'd tried on a pair of 6-inch heels and checked myself out in the mirror. I just about fell over backwards. Holy flippin -- LOOK at those legs! And that derriere! Is THAT really me?!? Wow ... pretty scary ... but maybe it could be fun after all. Bought em, wore 'em maybe twice before my vertebrae went on strike. But it was worth it, for the experience.

I highly recommend it to any of you more adventurous guys! Go ahead, discover the joys and powers of your personal inner Goddess -- She's hiding right there, in your shoes, after all!   

;-)