thanks for the PM. I worry about this kind of thing too. I belong to a very liberal community (church and friends). I don't want to lose their respect. I find this hard to talk about openly. I don't want to feel like a hater. I never thought about trans people much until the whole bathroom law in NC in May 2016. I started reading blogs and found a reddit called /r/GenderCritical. The cross dressing thing you found out about is called autogynephilia. There are 2 kinds of male to female trans: effeminate men who suffer from gender dysphoria (generally sympathetic people) and crossdressers with a fetish. The crossdresser types are the main trans activists. They reduce women to stereotypes - the exact thing that women have been fighting against for the last 50 years. They have no respect for women. They try to bully lesbians to sleep with them (because they are women now). Female to Male transgenders are usually women who have suffered some kind of trauma or abuse and are disassociated from their bodies. Perhaps they do not want to conform to a culture where women are objectified. In many cases, children who are trans tend to come from conservative homes where gender roles are stricter and homosexuality is less accepted. I hope this helps.