In those days dressing in women’s clothes in public could get you beaten up, murdered or arrested leading to job loss, divorce and in many cases financial ruin. Virginia Prince’s original “Heels & Hose Club” that started some years earlier. The remaining private group of which I am a member is CHIC (Crossdressers Heterosexual Intersocial Club) which started in 1975. What are the crossdresser clubs who are growing or maintaining doing right? Today there is 1 which is CHIC a private security conscious group. During the 1990’s the general Los Angeles area had 6 crossdressser clubs two were private and four open to anyone. Most are losing members and not replacing them some say because of the new freedoms we have going out. From what I can determine most are not growing and are lucky to maintain their numbers replacing those who leave for various reasons. LONGEVITY So what are the crossdresser clubs who are still alive doing right and are they too shrinking, growing or just maintaining their numbers. Age seems to play a major role also with younger crossdressers preferring other social outlets. With other groups it seems like the leadership changed the direction of the club which displeased some of the membership who then moved on weakening the club and leading to its eventual demise. None of the member’s felt the calling to take the helm and steer the way so everything just stopped. The real question is what happened? Why did they stop and where did they go? In some cases the dynamic leadership left first and without it the group withered then faded away. THE PROBLEM To say that a crossdresser clubs died because people stopped supporting it by attending the meetings and moved on is to state the obvious. The question has dogged me for some time now so I thought I would explore some observations with you. Then why are the groups dying? One would think that the number of groups would be growing not shrinking. If this perception is true and the Tran’s community is growing with many people leaving the safety of their closet and not just dragging the computer in there with them. The public in many places is either more tolerant of us or just ambivalent so we are able to go more public places at least in the bigger cities anyway. ACCEPTANCE The media has now taken a greater interest in us and transgender characters are being seen in movies and TV.
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The main purpose seems to be chatting or exchanging ideas and sharing photos. There are many online groups that are easy to join and have few rules in most cases. This at a time when the transgender community seems to be growing with numerous websites and magazines coming online. They don’t go out with a lot of fanfare they just seem to fade away, here one day and gone the next. Over the past 15 years or so I have noticed the decline in the number of crossdresser clubs and or support groups around the country.