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. 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. Just imagine, you step out your front door in full fem-mode for the first time, for a stroll into the centre of York. As you set off, you are first spotted by a neighbour; then on the journey meet a friend who “reads” you; although you are grown-up and live on your own now, a little bit further on the same happens with someone from your own family; then you encounter a colleague from work, perhaps your boss!

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. Well, not so....all car shows feature models...cause cars are sex objects for men. Especially sports cars. They lust for the red sports car then they buy the wagon or the suv...for the kids. I mean married men. Single men or divorced men, or cheating men....get that sports car. Most hood ornaments are phallic symbols, they were very obvious, the new cars have moved to a indented CLEFT....THE VAGINA. The reason for this is because it’s quite a big thing to do: it took me about six months (of buying stuff and practising at home) from when I first got the urge, to the first time I stepped out the door of my house into the big world – it took Simone several years, because of her circumstances. Now she has grown up, she just likes to come out for special occasions and big events, like Sparkle in Manchester each year.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... So, for the “girls in the closet” section what we’ve done is take one of us altogether, with a friend who was prepared to play this role in the picture. The girls together, left-right: Sue, a “girl in the closet”, Simone and Maxine How did you do in the quiz – the “the RTV/OTV, TS/CD challenge”? If you got the maximum ten points that’s scary – none of us got the bonus points. If you got 4-8 that’s cool, and we’d like to meet you on one of our nights out in York. One to three points, well you had a go, but this is not your area – but then, none of us knows much about fishing, or knitting.

Bobrisky prefers to be referred to as she. Therefore, some people call her mama, babe etc. Bobrisky admired being called Baby. I thought that for every one of us girls who goes out and about, there were maybe three who only existed inside their own homes. I didn’t really know (nobody can) about this, so asked Bella Jay, who is the editor of Repartee. She thought the answer was more like ten. All of us take our hats off to Simone (if we’re wearing one), if not we curtsy to her, because she has had to make the biggest decisions. She lives the life 24/7, and has done things which make her body different. There is lots more which could be said on these subjects, and for any reader who is interested we suggest they could have a look at International Repartee, the glossy magazine produced by the main organisation for people like us, where these matters are gone into in more detail.All these possibilities need thought and preparation before you put yourself in a situation where they could happen.