Canadian writer Linda Jensen is a long time contributor to TGForum. Before the days of the Internet Linda started her writing with the Transvestian newspaper. Her writing ranges from factual accounts of her adventures to fiction although frankly sometimes her real life adventures are stranger than the fiction. Linda is married to a loving partner who upon learning about Linda said, "she was part of you before I met you. Although I didn't know it she was part of the package I fell in love with. I don't want to mess up that package." "Does it get any better than that?" asks Linda.
In her last post Linda wrote about how a group of her friends told her stories about the times they were nearly caught crossdressing by friends, colleagues, or family member. Today Linda continues telling their stories about how members of this group came close to having their ‘closets’ nearly blown to pieces.
Linda tells us about meeting up with a group of crossdressers as they each in turn reveal their closest encounter with being ‘outed’ to friends, family and colleagues. Then she invites us to add our closest call.
Linda Jensen has known her fair share of admirers and some of them have pointed out a few things they don’t admire about some crossdressers. Linda sums it up in this post and shares the wisdom she gained while dating all those guys.
Linda goes back through her memory and emails to find and lay out what she has learned about those men commonly called admirers and how they are drawn to admiring t-girls/ crossdressers/trannies.
Linda’s friend Lin, once new to the crossdressing scene, had made great strides in improving her feminine appearance and deportment. However, she still felt an uncertainty about how attractive she would be to men. She had to find out. Linda tells us what happened.
Linda Jensen reviewed the Athena Self-Adhering Breastplate that she got from The Breast Form Store in a previous post. After wearing her new “girls” more she has other observations to share. Overall she is loving it and has tested what it’s like to sleep in the breastplate, what types bras enhance the cleavage effect, and how she hides the edges.
Linda ‘takes the plunge’. Is she talking about creating for herself the best cleavage look ever? Yes, she is. Read on and find out how it came to be. But you’ve already guessed, Linda took a breastplate out for a test ride.
Mary, a lifelong crossdressing snowbird, lives six months of the year full time en femme in a 55+ deed restricted fun loving community in Florida. When family are coming to visit she rents a place in the Orlando area, ‘goes butch’ for a while and everyone has a good time. About 5 years ago a grandson came to visit and Mary learned he was interested in crossdressing. Now the grandson is visiting again and spending the time as Jazzy. Seems like Mary will have to come out to Jazzy.
A few years ago Linda told the story of a friend who after being widowed moved to Florida to live as a woman full time. Mary only wore male attire if any of her relatives came to visit. One such visitor was a grandson who told Mary he had an attraction to wearing women’s clothes. That tale ended satisfactorily but after a long period Mary has contacted Linda to tell a new story and seek some advice. The story starts now. The advice can wait.
Linda Jensen reminisces about the early days when she bought her girl clothes from the Sears Catalog. Now in 2021 with dressing rooms in most stores closed over COVID concerns she’s had to adjust how she shops. The still visits Ross Dress For Less regularly but now she has to take things home to decide if she will keep them.
Linda’s friend Mary had questions about how safe it is to have sexual relations with people she had met online during the Covid pandemic. The best advice Linda could find all said no sex with anyone outside your own household is safe. Meeting a part time lover in a hotel room for an evening of erotic pleasure could also introduce the virus into another human body. But some of the advice from a prestigious institution seems to say crossdressing might be one way to avoid infection.
A friend asks Linda about safe-sex in a world where even passing close to someone apparently can lead to serious illness and maybe death. Is it even anywhere near possible to engage in intimate activity, or to just find someone willing to get it on during the pandemic? Linda discusses the issue with her pal Mary in Crossdressing, Sex and Covid-19 , part 1.
Back in the last century Linda loved Halloween. In those days it was the crossdressers’ national holiday. Linda loved to go out en femme and she loved to get dressed up in costumes. That was until 2001 when Linda came up with a costume that turned out to be A Really Bad Idea!
Linda continues her story of Susan, a 50-something long-time crossdresser who has just spent the last several weeks in Florida winding up the estate of her recently deceased estranged birth father. Among other discoveries Susan learned that her father had also been a crossdresser. She also got to wear some of her father’s old dresses and to get to know Nora, her father’s partner who was a post-op TS. But now it’s time to head home. With some planned stops for crossdressed fun along the way. But Susan doesn’t get to enjoy a slow trip home. After thinking some things over she decides getting there early is a better idea.
Linda continues her story of Susan, a 50-something long-time crossdresser who has just spent the last several weeks in Florida winding up the estate of her recently deceased birth father. Among other discoveries Susan learned that her father had also been a crossdresser. She also got to wear some of her father’s old dresses and to get to know Nora, her father’s partner who was a post-op TS. It had turned out to be a fabulous visit.
When last we read about Joe, aka Joseph Thomas, junior, he was sitting in a compartment on the Amtrak Autotrain heading north out of Florida. He had just spent two weeks in Florida attending his birth father’s funeral and helping Nora, his new-found stepmother, wrap up his father’s estate. Let’s back up a bit. Let’s back up to the days after the funeral service when Joe and Nora, his dad’s second wife, got busy winding up the estate and learning about each other.
Linda tells the story of a person who discovers too late about one of his birth father’s lifetime interests. This story qualifies as fiction but it is somewhat based on a friend’s true life situation.
With so much self-isolation time on her hands Linda is putting her mind to some of the deeper questions facing society. Why do people kill? How can we keep our plastic out of the oceans? Why is there such a drive to get an Earth colony on Mars? Why do crossdressers crossdress?
Linda Jensen has found an unexpected benefit to being isolated at home. She is getting in touch with people she met earlier in her life. They are reaching out to her to comment on her posts here on TGF. One lady she hadn’t heard from in years wrote to comment on one of Linda’s posts and also to wonder how some of the people they both know were able to put their femme side away while quarantining with family that had no knowledge of their femme side. And, Linda’s friend is benefitting from isolation as now her wife is not worried that anyone will be stopping by their house so Linda’s friend is able to dress everyday.
Linda Jensen’s beat for TGForum is covering the social scene. That’s gotten plenty hard to do in the new world of Coronavirus isolation. However that’s not going to stop Linda from turning in her post on time for publication. The world may hit the off switch but TGForum and Linda Jensen keep on keeping on. For your amusement and edification we present Linda’s new blog, Don’t Get Around Much Anymore.
Many part time ladies who are not “out” to everyone have found themselves in situations in which they run into someone who knows them from their male life. You’re en femme, walking on the street, and up ahead you see your neighbor, co-worker or your child’s teacher. OMG! Linda recalls attending a support group meeting for “closeted crossdressers” where members took turns revealing the close calls they had that could have left them outed to the world.
A common truth in all people’s lives is that eventually they get older. Today Linda Jensen blogs about aging and takes a moment to look at her memories of the good times she’s had while being Linda. She offers a sort of memory test that will let you situate yourself on the transgender timeline by bringing up places, publications and online addresses which either mean something to you or don’t spark a memory. For example, how many remember Paradise in the Poconos? Take a sashay down memory lane with Linda Jensen.
Linda met a couple dressed for a B&D party at a party for trans women, crossdressers and their admirers. The couple thought they would be the hits of the party but their matching S&M outfits were off putting to the crowd. Linda introduced herself and when the male expressed a desire to know what it felt like to be the bottom partner during sex Linda offered to help him transform into a lovely lady who could take her pick of the admirers. Today Linda concludes her story about meeting the adventurous young couple and helping the husband with his curiosity about the art of crossdressing –- and cross-loving, if there is such a thing.
Linda was at an ‘adult play’ club for the regular first Sunday of the month ‘tranny and friends’ party. She happened to meet a husband and wife who were frequent visitors at the club’s regular evenings but this time they had come dressed in matching femme fetish outfits. “Oh, do they look out of place,’ Linda thought as she looked around at her sisters in their best LBDs. Being a kind-hearted soul Linda soon took the two under her wing and started to share some of her encyclopedic knowledge about the fine arts of crossdressing. The lessons were to continue the next day when Rick/Ricki would meet Linda for breakfast.
Our Linda Jensen showed up at an ‘adult lifestyle’ club the same Sunday afternoon as a young couple. The guy was crossdressed in a leather mini and his girlfriend echoed the look. At first Linda didn’t feel any attraction to the couple but their first interaction led to a friendship that changed the couple’s lives. The story is so big it will take several months to tell. Here is part one.
Last month Sophie Lynne wrote about the demise of a gay club/hotel in New Hope, Pa. that had been an important part of her growth. She had only been there a few times but every other month there was a gathering of trans people and Sophie had attended some of those. Places you go when you’re finally finding your true self can be important. Today Linda Jensen laments the closing of yet another t-friendly gay resort. This one is in Florida, near her usual stomping grounds.
