Bobrisky prefers to be referred to as she. Therefore, some people call her mama, babe etc. Bobrisky admired being called Baby. Dressing up is a lot of fun, I find, so I try to do this most weekends and sometimes other times, which makes me an RTV in the jargon of our world. My “brother” is cool with this (we are Geminis), and has let me take over most of the available wardrobe space at home. This is the quiz section. If you want to go in for this, the challenge is to write down what you think the abbreviations above stand for – they’re all explained in the piece, so don’t start reading too soon if you’re going in for the quiz. You don’t get any points for the first and last abbreviations, but there is a bonus of two points if you can say who introduced the OMG one, and when. All these possibilities need thought and preparation before you put yourself in a situation where they could happen.

The girls on a night out in York. Photograph: the author Maxine is a York transvestite, part of a thriving world which few people know or understand. Here she explains what it means to be involved in that world, introduces some of her friends, and reveals the emotional and practical challenges they face the next day, I returned to the original location and got a red tutu and more tattoed pantyhose. They so hot. But for the purposes of this quiz, let’s just say that Simone is different from the other girls because she is a country girl – the rest of us here are basically townies. Simone has lived in the same house in a village all her life, going out to work and then looking after her parents in their final years. TS is short for transsexual – this answer is not too difficult to get, but it’s the hardest one to actually do, by a long way. Simone has chosen this route. Or perhaps we mean this is the path she had to follow. Girls and cars, just mix. My neighbor pulled out of her driveway in little sports car, and I said..Heh, can I take pic with the car? So here I go...She has told us that she wanted to dress in this way since she was very young and living at home, which was a problem as the family lived in the industrial part of West Yorkshire. Sue’s “brother” still works in a factory over there, so Sue had to keep everything secret about herself.

Having to work as her “brother” for all those years just did not feel right to her, but she didn’t see what she could do about this, which got her down. After her parents had passed away, she began to dress at home, which was better. But it was only when Simone got to know Maxine that she was emboldened to start going out and about.Some people do dress and go out, but are not quite as upfront about it as Simone and me. As I said, there are various groups and organisations who run special events which cater for this need – like arranging a weekend at some hotel in a discreet or remote spot, where the whole hotel is booked just for T-girls. This enables those who are not totally public about their female persona to arrive in boy-mode, then change into whatever fem outfits they have brought, and spend a whole weekend this way among like-minded people.