Editing Cross-dressing (section)

==Social issues==
[[File:A Morning Frolic, or the Transmutation of the Sexes.jpg|thumb|A Morning Frolic, or the Transmutation of the Sexes ({{Circa|1780}}, artist unknown) depicts a man and a woman exchanging items of clothing in a parody of the satirical drawings of [[John Collett (artist)|John Collet]], which were considered to be vulgar at the time.]]
Cross-dressers may begin wearing clothing associated with the opposite sex in childhood, using the clothes of a sibling, parent, or friend. Some parents have said they allowed their children to cross-dress and, in many cases, the child stopped when they became older. The same pattern often continues into adulthood, where there may be confrontations with a spouse, partner, family member or friend. Married cross-dressers can experience considerable anxiety and guilt if their spouse objects to their behavior.

Sometimes because of guilt or other reasons cross-dressers dispose of all their clothing, a practice called "purging", only to start collecting the other gender's clothing again.<ref name = "eucwqo"/>