Comments on: Why Don’t Crossdressers Post Pictures?

By: Jessica De Leon

Jessica De Leon — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:12:23 +0000

Excellent comment, thanks for your insight. You have experienced quite a lot

By: Kristen Kelly

Kristen Kelly — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:03:07 +0000

I started out as a CD, I’ve been out in the public eye for almost 5 years now, and over the years have had my picture taken and posted at many TG parties and events, my picture has been in a local newspaper article on a local gay club, and even in a CNN documentary on Susan Stanton but all that made the air was the back of my head. I am TS, out mainstream now, but not full time. I have my own shoulder length blonde highlighted hair; shaped eyebrows, wear women’s jeans, and small hoop earrings even at work. I am missed and maamed out in “drab”, confident and comfortable with who I am. I post few pictures of myself, I have nothing to prove to other people about who I am, or afraid that others will connect to my male ID. I am very happy with who I am, just want to be see in the same light as any average woman and nothing “special” and that is my choice.

By: Ellen

Ellen — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:00:11 +0000

I live near Binghamton, NY I don’t know anywhere to get photos taken as Ellen. I will persevere in overcoming this obstacle. All of my photographs of Ellen are securely tucked away in an obscure operating system file in my computer. I don’t think a computer geek could find them without a roadmap! No more oops.

I did meet a local CD earlier this week, she needs more photographic training. I need more modeling training.

Ellen

By: Jessica De Leon

Jessica De Leon — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:21:20 +0000

Hi Ellen,

Depending on where you are, there are photographers who are professional and willing to hold sessions for TGs. You may already know this, but just in case, I wanted to let ya know.

I had a similar experience…. I had been looking at a photo of Jessica on my smartphone and then put it to sleep. I was in an Electronics store with two of my friends and I unlocked my phone while he was looking at it (he likes the phone)… As soon as the phone resumed there was the picture of me!! I instantly put it back to sleep but I highly doubt that he recognized me…

- Jessica

By: Ellen

Ellen — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:20:21 +0000

OK, I have very few pictures posted. Why? I have no one to help me take them. I imagine that is a real obstacle for a lot of girls.

And Jessica, I had a few pictures in my laptop and I was careless with labeling them and I was showing some photos of my classic sports car ro a co-worker and inadvertently opened to wrong file! I was instantly mortified! He never recognized me. Whew!

Life is an adventure.

Ellen PS: I sent Petra Beljames a picture earlier this week. It isn’t widely out there, but I think if I had someone to help me photograph myself, I would post a lot more.

By: Jessica De Leon

Jessica De Leon — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:15:52 +0000

When I first took some pictures, I too thought I looked ridiculous. The ones that survive (I purged some of them) show me in way too tight and short clothing, body and facial hair galore, and an odd and creepy look on my face. Even though the pictures from my first full dress-up look great, I never considered posting them until this year.

Do you have any way of contacting that person who emailed you ?

Yea, I agree, sometimes being out just makes things much easier

By: Brit

Brit — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:14:50 +0000

The first few pictures I took I looked ridiculous I’m sure. It was just me in a dress, no makeup, no wig, nothing. That’s why I didn’t post any at first. Eventually when took pictures that didn’t show my head (I had no wig for a while). Then I got a wig but knew nothing about makeup, so I did what I could, got foundation and caked it on, used some eye liner, but knew nothing about eyeshadow, but still got a couple pictures that weren’t too clear, mainly far away shots that I would resize to be a little smaller so it was harder to see deatils.
Then one day I got an E-mail from someone saying they think they know me, asked if I went to college at the college I went to. I was terrified, even though they said it was cool that we had that in common, so I knew they dressed to. Still I always thought even if someone I know sees my picture they wouldn’t recognize that it was actually me. I never responded to the E-mail, but now I don’t really care. If I get outted, I’m out, no more hiding it. That would make things so much easier.

By: Jessica De Leon

Jessica De Leon — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:36:50 +0000

@ Savanna > Yea, the admins work hard to keep certain photos safe. Have you ever thought of testing your theory? I mean, showing a person your photo and seeing if they recognize you.

By: Savanna

Savanna — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:35:13 +0000

As much as I love posting pictures I can understand the need for NOT posting them as well. I’ve taken some measures to make sure that the place(s) I’ve posted pics are not easily accessible, mostly thanks to the admins at those places.

I don’t even have a flickr or separate facebook account because of this. I ventured out onto twitter but even then, I worry about accidentally mixing them up with my other account, hah.

As much as I’d like to think I look like a girl dressed up, if anyone I knew saw pictures of me, they’d most likely instantly recognize me.

By: Jessica De Leon

Jessica De Leon — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:19:23 +0000

@ Karren > What movies did you make? Are they online? I’ve only seen your pictures, I found them even before I started blogging, I really like them.

By: Karren

Karren — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:18:47 +0000

Well its like the first time i posted a photo of myself andafter a few days the world didn’t end.. So I posted another.. And so on so after 5 years and thousands of photos and movies… I’m still here.. Kind of pavlovian really.. Conditioned response. Lol.