Marianne

Hello to everyone who reads or perhaps just glances at my profile. It goes on a bit I know, but what the blazes. At least you will have an idea about me after reading it (if you make it to the end).

A big thank you to those who have left such lovely comments, sent such nice messages and even ... voted to give me a babe rating. Just when you think you are over the hill someone says something nice about you - it doesn't stop you being over the hill but it makes rolling down the other side a lot more pleasant!

And a further thank you to all the team at TINT. Well done for providing such a great means of meeting, talking, thinking and (at the Sparkle Welcome Party) drinking!

I am Marianne, a long in the tooth, though sometimes short in the skirt, six foot Transvestite (skirt size, 16, shoe size 9). I hope to shrink the skirt size but I am stuck with the shoe size!

I am a keen reader - of novels, histories, biographies, detective stories, pulp and more besides. I love the movies too but have not to the cinema recently as much as I would have liked for one reason and another. Casablanca still makes me come over all emotional while Some Like it Hot still makes me smile. I adore opera, especially Mozart and The Marriage of Figaro - but when it comes to music my true love is Ska and early reggae. Long Live Trojan!

I have been a socialist for almost as long as I have been donning ladies' garments. I am ill disposed to bigotry of any kind and I believe that most people are kind, honest and tolerant - MPs excepted!

The pictures on here were taken in the last six years. I know because it was six years ago that I got a digital camera for Christmas!

I have been dressing since I was very young - five or six I think. That makes it a very long time. I am no longer the Sweet Bird of Youth who once brazenly purchased her first pair of high heels from a baffled sales girl in Saxones shoe shop and then graced the pavements in them (tripping quite a few times). But I am convinced that you are only as old as the stockings you feel. And mine are all new!

As I suspect happens with many of us, there were gaps in my life as Marianne, times when I wondered whether or not I was really a Tranny at all and other times when the demands of family life led to dresses being filed under pending (though, thankfully, I always resisted the costly wardrobe purge that sometimes accompany such moments). But who doesn't go through trials, changes and transformations (or at one point Transformation - we've all been there!)? I think I have emerged as a Happy Tranny, though I am sure there's always room for improvement.

The emphasis now, for me at least, is trying to look nice. Trying to look convincing is great and those who pull it off so well are fantastic. But the days when I used to agonise over whether I could pass have long gone. As long as I don't look a mess I am relaxed about being read. Makes for the occasional interesting conversation with a whole range of people and I am struck by the tolerance of many. It puts the intolerance of the few into perspective.

I have a strong sense of fun - and an irrepressible sense of humour - both of which are essential for those situations where a taxi load of people pull up beside you in the road, look at you and either stare or start shouting things at you. A joke is better than an insult and usually means I don't have to try and leg-it while wearing heels.

I have a female partner. We have shared our life together for many years and we are - those who occasionally make suggestive propositions to me please note - still deeply in love. I told her I dressed about a million years ago (during a train journey for some reason). She not only took it in her stride, she had a positive, let's make it fun approach which helped me towards becoming the person I am today. And she takes the pictures. Well she takes the good ones. I do the self-timer ones - they are the ones where I look as stiff as a board. She also does my hair.

I have come out to more and more people and now find the whole thing less traumatic than I did during those early days of thinking that I was the only one in the world held in the grip of a mysterious compulsion to wear a frock.

I would like to go out more but there aren't that many (anyone know of any?) places in Liverpool that are Tranny friendly and the parking in Manchester, well ... plus when I do plan a night out my kids are still at the age where I have to organise babysitters. Still, I am game for fun nights out with fellow trannies and of course partners (if they want to be Dragged along so to speak). Who knows, we may even be able to find a place that welcomes us all in Merseyside so we don't have to drive up the M62 in flatties.

Take care everyone and if you have reached here - then like me you are an avid reader!

Marianne
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Located in England - Merseyside

Looking to meet TV/CD, Couples, Women, TS for Friendship, Email/Chat, Going Out

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Last logon at 00:58 on 06 Mar 2010, last updated at 09:38 on 31 Dec 2009 and profile created on 05 Jun 2008.

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Star Sign: LEO
Out: Yes
Profession: Growing old ungracefully
Status: In Relationship
Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)
Body: Average
Ethnic Origin: Caucasian
Hair Colour: Red
Eye Colour: Hazel
Favourite Look: Casual
Body Hair: Some
Smoking: Yes
Drinking: Often
Drugs: -

Food: French
Music: Ska
Film:Duck Soup, Casablanca, The Third Man, Some Like it Hot and Night of the Living Dead!
Author: Henry Fielding, Mark Twain, E M Forster, Raymond Chandler and Jim Thompson
Actor: Groucho Marx, Humphrey Bogart, Albert Finney, George Clooney
Actress: Marilyn Monroe, Rita Hayworth, Bette Davies, Ingrid Bergman
TV Show: The Sopranos
Holiday Destination: Greece or Italy
City: Amsterdam
Country: France
Club: Too few to mention
Bar/Pub: Too many to mention
Hobbies: Isn't it obvious?!?

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