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Passing as a woman when you are a genetic male is probably one of the hardest things you will ever encounter. Guys don't sit like ladies they don't walk like ladies and they certainly don't talk like ladies. Forget the male accent, the content of guys conversations is entirely blokish. So what can you do ? - I have been at many tranny bars and seen a TV asking for a pint of bitter and a large portion of scampi in the basket.... the proverbial "thanks mate" resounding to the barman. I suppose that if you just want to have some fun, do something different and go out with your friends dressed as the opposite sex then all that would be fine. If you happen to be ex services elite special forces then the odd comment or worse from passers by will not concern you too much. A lady like punch in the throat is more the order of the day. Acting in the role of a woman takes time, practice and a great deal of confidence.

Confidence comes with knowing that you look pretty much ok and that at least you pass in general terms. Somebody in the medical profession once told me that one person in a hundred would make you as being from the opposite gender - I never actually believed that as I thought at first "Oh my God everybody is looking at me".The truth is that out in the real World people have not got the time to take much notice and if they did make you then chances are they would be more scared of you. Coming out in public is a real eye opener. I remember going into restuarants and heads turning and the obvious thought is "Ouch I'm made". Sorry, very wrong ! - and it took a few months for me to realise that if you are tall, have great legs most women would kill for and have long blonde hair you are going to get looked at. Indeed these days if I don't get looked at in restaurants and bars I get very pissed off - Hell it all cost a great deal of money so people should look. Ok so I am a TS (sorry I mean woman) but the same principles apply to any tranny tripping the light fantastic for the for the first time.

Rule 1...dress your age

if you are 40 or 50 years old (or even over 30) don't dress in a miniskirt. You are not a spice girl and you are inviting trouble. Go to a department store and ask the ladies wear dept to advise on what a middle aged woman would wear. Make an excuse....it's for your wife etc etc. who cares these days. Dressing outside your age will get you into more problems than anything else.

Rule 2...don't overdo the make up

in your enthusiasm to cover the beard shadow an inch thick of foundation is actually worse. Believe it or not women have hair too...on their arms, upper lip and all sorts of places.

Rule 3...study women

(the right sort of course !) and how they act and don't overdo the I'm a little girl bit in your demeanour. Women are not like that unless they are 16 years old or an experienced Joan Collins.

Rule 4...don't speak from your chest

try talking from the top of your mouth. eg your head. Do not try a falsetto or you will end up squeaking and that is worse. Guys speak from the chest - Women speak from the mouth.

Rule 5...don't smoke in the street and don't order pints of beer

unless you are at a tranny club and you really have to have a pint.

Rule 6....get proper advice on wigs, clothes, hair and make up

what you think looks great probably doesn't. Hair colour and make up have to blend with your natural colour.

Rule 7....think about how you will react to guys

this is not so funny as it seems - as a woman you are inviting the attention of the now new opposite sex (men) and if you handle things wrong then it's probably trouble. Remember it is usually straight hetro guys that will be interested and if you are convincing and plan on winding a guy up sexually then be warned. If it comes to a sexual encounter and you want to go through with it you had better be honest first. A guy's ego can be damaged to find out that he just asked what he may later perceive as another guy to bed with him and NEVER EVER have unprotected sex so carry a condom if you think things may end up that way. Learning how to act as a woman takes time and experience. Don't rush it. Handle things right and you will discover that the power of sex is something you will learn to use to your advantage.

Rule 8....when you sit down always cross your legs

if you sit with your legs apart you will attract attention in public. Guys sit with their legs apart, women always sit with legs crossed.

Rule 9....using the ladies loo

well clearly your not going to use the gents ! - that would be suicide. Make sure you leave the seat down ! - If you have a skirt or dress on even questionable females have the right to use female public toilets these days. If you have jeans or pants on you may be ousted or it may raise comment. You don't need that.

Rule 10....smile

not so funny actually - when you meet someone in public a smile does a great deal to make them feel at ease (even if they make you) - remember personality carries the day far more than looks.  Once they realise you don't bite or have obvious hang ups then most things will follow on more smoothly. Ask yourself if you are a Lady, a Slut, or a Goddess. Every drag queen, transvestite, woman and transgender woman has an alter ego, what is yours? Often we are a combination of all three, or we need to express one of these sides on certain evenings. There is a true way to be tasteful and there is a way to be tacky. Tacky may be funny, but only if you really intend to be funny, otherwise you're going to come off looking like a fool.

How does a true Lady exit a car ?

There is such a thing called a charm school exit. Always exit by placing both legs out of the car door with your ankles together; place both feet firmly on the ground, and stand up gracefully. Never exit one leg at a time, only a tramp or a cow makes a sloppy exit. A lady is never vulgar! 

Panty Hose and Lingerie Secrets

Before wearing lingerie you must first shave your body, unless you want to be a complete gender freak. Waxing is better but when it starts to grow out in a few days.......ouch unless you are blessed with little body hair. Married transvestites who are closeted can buy sheer body stockings that camouflage body hair. If this is your quandary, then by all means, buy the body stocking. You can purchase these at most dance wear stores, where you can find the most bitchin' looking fetish lingerie. Two or more pairs of pantyhose will also make your legs look great. 

Always wear sheer to the waist pantyhose when wearing short skirts and hot pants. This will give you an even look all the way up to your crotch. Keep in mind that most pantyhose have a demarcated area, resembling a pair of shorts. The sheerness breaks at the upper thigh. Such hose will look horrible if your dress is too short. 

Always tuck your penis properly. You have to shove your testes back up inside your body, then place your penis between your legs, with its tip facing your anus. You need not tape your penis there, you can firmly secure it with a tight dance belt. Be sure it's not too tight around your waist, or you'll have additional agony. If you're intending to father a child anytime soon, then forget tucking and wear looser fitting dresses, or pants. Tucking will lower your sperm count, since body heat affects the production of sperm. 

If you're a prowling pre-op remember, most men are really drawn to you because you're a girl with something extra! Still, tucking is necessary when you¹re wearing tight gowns, dresses, pants, or skirts. He likes to be surprised! 

Apply pantyhose by carefully unfolding each leg. Begin with one foot at a time, then the next. Pull each leg up by gradually unfolding the hose over each shin, then knee, up to your thighs. Alternate between legs so that your hose are not uneven, this also keeps them from running. 

Spray your freshly applied pantyhose with cheap hair spray, they'll be a lot more run proof. Avoid placing sharp objects, purses, jewelry, etc. against your hose as these things can easily snag and run them. Clear nail polish can save a minor snag from becoming a horrendous run. Carry it in your bag, just a little dab will do you! Nothing is worse than being all ready to go out and having your pantyhose run. Running your nylons makes you look like a cheap street tramp. If you're feeling particularly whorish, then by all means, wear runny nylons. 

Used nylons make great sexy bondage ropes. Tying your man's hands behind his back with nylons, or tying him spread-eagle to your bed posts with nylons can be very exciting. Nylons are flimsy and not that strong, they just give the illusion of restraint and this is very hot for most powerful stud muffins who need to shed some of that daily control. 

Bras, Corsets And Waste Clinchers

To get proper cleavage one must either tape, or wear a bra that's two sizes too small. The cup size should always be the same size as the boob you want. Your boobs can never be too big. Big boobs are powerful assets, especially when attracting men. 

Taping can be irritating and can prove a nightmare if your allergic to adhesive.  Tape will burn your flesh if you have allergies to plastic products. Taping is done by most beauty queens at pageants. When taping, one must bend forward and push everything up and to the center. If you have a lot of body fat, or if you're weight challenged, you can achieve great looking cleavage. Try the double bra trick. Use the smaller bra on the inside and stuff the larger, outer bra. 

Corsets are great, but tricky. Most women have wider hips, so most drag queen corsets must be tailored tighter at the waist. It helps if you have the breast forms sewed inside the cup of the corset. The foam mastectomy replacement pads are the best for such a corset. The expensive silicone forms are more useful as bra fill. One can use heavy duty water balloons in bras for a more bouncy feel, but your taking a chance that one might explode and leave you not only feeling flat, but quite wet and embarrassed! 

Waste cinchers do give you a wasp waist and can really pull a svelte look together. Remember drag is illusion, just as sexiness is illusion. If it weren't for peroxide, silicone, collagen, enamel and synthetic hair, we wouldn't have a Hollywood ! 

The Secret To Great Make Up

Are you a Goddess, Slut, or a Lady? Well this is how you gauge your make up application. A Lady is tasteful and never overdone. She coordinates her colours properly and always appears classy. She usually knows if she's a spring, summer, autumn, or winter. These are the main colour groups based on skin, hair and eye colour tones, no matter how fair, or dark and lovely you are. Cool colours lean towards blues, blue violets and greens. Warm colours lean towards reds, yellows, peaches, pinks and red violets. 

Always blend, blend, blend to have really great make-up. Never use too many colours of eye shadow, unless your going for the wanton slut look. Never share any make-up as bacteria and infections can be spread easily, especially to the eyes. Share your eyeliner and mascara with the wrong queen and you'll get a wicked case of conjunctivitis, better known as pink eye! Try dermablend base make up for craggy bits and 5 o'clock shadow and/or Estee Lauder Double Wear or Clarins base foundation guaranteed to last 24 hrs.

and for peats sake.....

The recommended exercises are of two kinds: physical and vocal. The following physical exercises will improve flexibility of the thorax and improve deportment generally. They should be performed morning and evening each day for about 10 minutes.

1. Place hands on the lower ribs at each side with the fingers forward. Keeping the rest of the body rigid, force the rib cage alternately to the right and the left to loosen it.

2. Stretch up from the waist several times, contracting the waist muscles. Follow this by stretching sideways from the waist, sliding arms down legs.

3. Keeping the rest of the body rigid, bend the pelvis forwards, backwards and sideways. Repeat several times.

4. Standing loosely, flex the shoulders back several times.

5. Standing with the feet slightly apart, raise the heels alternately, bending the knees, in imitation of walking.

6. With each arm alternately, snatch at the air above the head. Then with arms alone, mime the action of hauling on a rope.

7. Stand with hands on hips and roll the head around, first one way, then the other.

Repeat 1 and 2.

The following vocal exercises should also be done twice a day.

1. Drop jaw loosely.

2. Turn upper lip up a number of times.

3. With mouth open, point tongue up and down and then sideways. Then in a circular motion, first one way, then the other.

4. Using the muscles of the throat only, make the sound "-ng"; using the soft palate (at the back of the mouth), say "a" (as in part); using the back of the nose, say "a". Repeat several times to gain muscular control over these three resonators.

Exercises 1, 2 and 3, as well as 4, should be vocalized, using the middle note of existing speech. Preferably exercise 4 should be done with a mouth prop held between the front teeth to ensure that the sounds are made solely by the respective muscles being contracted, unaided by teeth and lips.

At a later stage, an exercise to practice the resonator scale should be added. Using the mouth prop, say the following words on the middle note in the order shown - HARD, HAY, HEED, HAY, HARD, HAWK, HOOT, HAWK, HARD - breathing steadily with each sound.

The foregoing exercises have been designed to give the flexibility and muscular control which are necessary in order to develop the new way of speaking. The practice of this new way of speaking requires attention to the following elements:

Pitch - This may be satisfactory and require no change. If it needs to be raised, the following technique will help. Start at the middle note of existing speech. Carry the voice up to the highest note obtainable without falsetto. This will establish the new range of pitch and the new middle note will be half way up it. Repetition of the vocal exercises at the new middle note will train the vocal organs to produce the new range naturally and easily.

Resonance - In voice production, there are three main resonators: pharynx (or neck), which is the first through which the breath passes; the mouth, through which most of the breath passes out; and the nose, through which a small proportion of the breath passes out. The essential quality of a resonator is that it is a hollow space. Each hollow space has its resonant pitch, which depends on the shape and size of the resonator and the size and number of its openings. The smaller the resonator, the higher the pitch. The smaller the opening, the lower the pitch. The sequence of the resonator scale, rising through an octave and a half, is as follows: HOOT, HOOK, HOE, HAWK, HOCK, HARD, HUT, HEARD, HAD, HEAD, HAY, HID, HEED. As far as HARD the resonant pitches of the neck and mouth are separate but identical. After HARD the resonant pitch of the mouth continues to rise, but the resonant pitch of the neck has a descending scale. Thus vocal pitch can be lightened by reducing neck resonance, a practice (commonly known as throwing the voice) which may be helpful in the early stages of using the new way of speaking. But without sufficient neck resonance, the tone of the voice is thin and lacks body and the aim should be to graduate away from this device. (Complete elimination of neck resonance results in a falsetto-type tone, which is to be avoided, as it has an artificial sound.) Use of the nasal resonator also helps to lighten the voice, but is a minor element only. (It may still be valuable to American TVs, since common speech has more nasal tones than British speech.) The lips play an important part in lightening the voice, since through this opening most of the breath passes. The more open the lips can be in making a sound, the lighter will be the tone.

Intonation - This is an all-important element in changing the voice, but needs graphic explanation which can hardly be given in a written article. It must be studied by listening to the type of speaker one wishes to imitate. In general, a man's speech tends to vary less in pitch than a woman's. Moreover, where a man employs tonic stress to obtain emphasis, a woman uses kinetic stress. Tonic stress is increased volume either without change of pitch or with an abrupt change of pitch. Kinetic stress is a rise of pitch followed by a downward sliding of pitch and not necessarily accompanied by any change of volume. When a child is being addressed, and in certain other circumstances, the kinetic stress may be inverted (down, then sliding up). For example, in the sentence "Where are you going?", the stress can be either on "where" or on "going". Apart from the stress words, the notation of any sentence with a specific meaning will vary according to whether it is spoken by a man or a woman. In a complicated sentence, stress will probably be placed on different words according to the gender of the speaker. With a good ear, these differences will be easily identified, but many people will appreciate them instinctively.

Tone - A man's speech is, in general, more muscular and incisive than a woman's. It is also more explosive. A woman tends to enunciate more lightly and rapidly (twittering), but to linger more on final sounds, releasing final consonants more gently. When occurring in the middle of words, consonants such as "l", "m" and "n" tend to be lingered over and to serve as a platform for a kinetic change of pitch. Consonants such as "d" and "t" are sounded more gently by a woman. In particular, a woman markedly increases the sibilance of "s" with the lips. (This is more important for British than for American TVs.) There are other finer points, but these are the main ones.

Vocabulary - A woman will convey meaning in a less abstract, more visual form than a man, and will use vaguer words for unessential links. Differences in outlook and gender role underlie considerable differences in vocabulary, which must be studied (unless appreciated instinctively) if the right impression is to be created.

The foregoing points can only be mastered by careful and systematic practice. It is best not to try to work on all of them to begin with. Select one aspect, say intonation, and practice it by reading or conversing into a tape recorder. By far the best way of checking results is in the playback of the tape. Don't worry if, at first, the recording gives you a low pitch. The limited frequencies of the machine will favor the lower resonances in a voice. Pitch is a less important factor than intonation, tone and vocabulary. As the voice exercises steadily reinforce the chosen pitch and improve control of resonance, it will be found that even the tape recorder and the telephone cannot "get you down."