[beverley.rose]

Back in my 'going out' days, I had only one personal bad experience, of the "Hey you're a tranny" kind, and that was from a mixed group of male and female mid-teenagers in Edinburgh.

Teenagers enjoy the laugh of outing you, but they rarely seem malicious

Women do check out what other women are wearing, and most TG's of whatever flavour can't stand up under that level of scrutiny.

Ummm.. I both agree and disagree. Women do scrutinise you but they do not necessarily 'read' you. I have had many, many interactions with women I have never met before and few of them clock me for what I am, but then what I wear is probably not worth more than a casual glance unless I am going out somewhere special in which case I scrub up and put on a nice frock.

Beverley