The Dating Game — Part 8 — by Mollie Blake

From the minute we are born we encounter key moments in our lives — opening our eyes, the first smile, the spoken word, and those first steps. Before we know it we give our first kiss, lose our virginity, get our hearts broken. Yet all the time most of us are living the life that was prescribed in the most basic of forms even before that very first day we entered the world — as a man or as a woman.

Professor David Forbes does not fall into this basic category of ‘most of us’. For him, and many others, life isn’t that simple. He is a man who accepts that he is a man, but who is happier wearing make-up and a dress. In short, ‘David’ is occassionally ‘Diana’.

And now one of his student’s has discovered he is a crossdresser and is asking for his help.

David handed Hector the cup of tea and sat opposite him at the small table in his office. “Have you spoken to anyone else?”

“N — no. Just you. And, and it’s good of you to listen to me. It — it’s been a help to get it off my chest.” The stammer was beginning to creep back into Hector’s speech.

“Mmm.” David glanced around the room as he wondered who was the most nervous.

A quietness hung between them and David began to doodle on his notepad, biding his time and pondering what to say, conscious that if…