At risk of being called a liar. I can remember attending “talent” shows at the local (deep south) high school in the late 40’s and 50’s that featured mostly high school football players dressed up as girls/women. This was a fun night for the packed audience of parents/siblings/teachers/administration.
While these burley young men clowned around on the stage the audience hooped it up. High school girls typically helped the guys into their “costumes”, and applied various amounts of makeup. I am sure if any pictures were shown on the internet these young men would be shamed for what at the time was nothing but a funny night for all. Everybody understood what this was all about.
At the time, I doubt that few people in the audience had ever seen a “real” sicko that actually dressed up as the opposite sex for purposes of doing the transgender thing. At the time, I had never even heard the word “transgender”, and anytime I saw a boy put on girls clothes it was never anything but acting like a clown. In other words this was nothing but a clown suit to go out and get laughs.
But again, this was waaaaayy before the country had become warped to the extent it is today. Oh yeah...we also thought being gay meant being merry and carefree. But, what did we know? Flame away.
In the early 60s I made my little brother put on our sister’s dress because he wanted to ride my bike...................
There was a time before liberals ruined everything.