Many, if not most cross dressers are presently hiding their predilection for wearing women's clothes and makeup, because they rightly fear that they will be almost immediately judged to be a either homosexual or a transvestite.
I said, "rightly fear", because recent research indicates that only around 8% of cross dressers are practicing gays.
It would seem then, that a man putting on sissy clothes, pretty lingerie and makeup, should only be viewed as a harmless hobby or pastime, but many psychiatrists still consider cross-dressing to be pathological, and they continue to categorize cross-dressers as having a perverse fetish.
Most cross dressers now give the finger sign to anybody and everybody that wants to castigate them, and whereas few now go for treatment, many join cross dresser clubs.