Random Thoughts About Cross Dressing

Not all crossdressers are transgender. However, I have found that many share similar stories, beginnings, and even intentions. This morning I woke up thinking about how it all started and how it progressed for me from early experimenting to today's need to be who I feel I am. There is evolution throughout our lives, with perhaps various stages where we start to understand and maybe define the need to be more than just being dressed as male or female. The need to get closer to the gender we identify with. The obsessive search for that perfect rendition of what we think makes us a man or a woman.  Can we, therefore, say that cross-dressing is stage 1, the beginning in the development of a transgender person? A sort of pre-visualization of things to come?