Hello everyone, thank you for visiting my photostream. Play nice and be nice. If you don't have profile photo of yourself and you post 'sexualised' comments, I will block you. I just like Flickr to be a friendly place where I can safely share my photos. Thank you.

2024: I am into my second year on HRT, continuing my transition into what I hope will be my best life as a woman.

2023: After a number of years socially transitioning, plus some changes in my work / home / life balance situation, I am now medically transitioning and am really looking forward to feeling, acting and being more in line with my feminine self over time! I will post some updates in due course.

2021 Update: Please send business enquiries / donations to my Google Mail account only. Due to various people contacting me via Flickr for a while, only for them to disappear (even if it is valid) I simply do not want to waste any more energy on this site, and the same applies to You Tube, IG and so on. I'm very happy if you feel you want to share things with me such as your life story but I am honestly not the best person to send such things to. If you take offence, then there is nothing I can do about that.

At the risk of repeating myself, I am not attracted to men or t-girls in the slightest. |Please don't take offence. I aim to present a feminine portrayal of a woman in my photos and videos. People can have a view as to whether I am successful at it or not. I do it for me. I do not want to be showered with compliments, loved bombed, propositioned or be sent endless fantasies. If there is someone out there for you, it is not me and never will be. Please respect that. If you cannot, please do not look at my pages or interact with them in any way. I do not need you to do so.

GROUPS: if you reject my photos this is of course your decision, but I will elect to leave the group and remove any photos of mine that were previously added.

I do tidy up my list every now and again. My 'follows' tend to be limited to a handful of people whose photostream I like the most, and friends are limited to people I have met in real life. It doesn't mean you cannot message me or even contact me outside of Flickr if you wish. If I get rude messages I won't be responding to those (although these tend to be from admirers rather than other t-girls). Some t-girls have started an in-depth conversation, commented on my stream, but then do not write again even though they make out we are friends.. If this is intended to keep me hanging, it does not. It merely irritates me in that moment, then I move on with my life. Finding genuine t-girl friends is a rareity. But if you are a t-girl who is genuine about striking up a real friendship, then you will have to put in the right amount of effort, as I feel I do more than enough to keep the connection going. Contacting me then disappearing for weeks or months, only to resurface and tell me that you've been busy, is frankly, rather rude. I would have more respect for such people if they just said that they do not want to further the connection with me. This has caused me to review how I spend my time online with such contacts.

Polite note: If you send me a message, please use my name. If you just write 'hello' or 'hi' I will dismiss it as a message you are copy / pasting to everyone. This applies to anyone...even contacts who list me as their 'friend.' I am pretty selective who I call a friend.

2020 Update: Some photos will be posted on Instagram.

www.instagram.com/rachellouise.swann/

Note: I rarely use Facebook now but keep a page there so that no-one else takes my photos and tries to pass themselves off as me. www.facebook.com/rachel.swann.37

I am investing in myself for the first time in a long time. I have just gotten a new shoulder length wig and a video camera is on the way! So I hope to take new video content and more photos of course. Thanks for stopping by.

With love

Rachel

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About me: In 2023, I took some major but necessary steps to transition. I've 'cross dressed' for years but always felt female and feminine, so this is a natural step for me. I also posted a few videos on You Tube. I hope if you get a chance you will have a look. Please comment, they are always welcome.

I don't want to meet anyone, I don't want to be added to groups and please don't ask me where I come from. It's annoying! I HAVE NO INTEREST IN MALE ADMIRERS. I AM NOT INTERESTED IN T-GIRLS. DO NOT ASK ME OUT OR PROPOSITION ME PLEASE. Thank you!

FANTASIES: Please, please keep yours to yourself! Thank you!

Videos:- This is my You Tube Channel

www.youtube.com/rachellouise33

These photos are mainly self-shot, so won't look so professional, or even that good. But it is for me to look at and hopefully see that I can and have improved my look over time - and with a lot of practise :)

If you leave nasty or vulgar comments you will be blocked.

Blocking also extends to people who add me as a contact but never comment. What's the point of you doing it then?

I am also not interested in meeting anyone, just not for me, sorry (!)

You can send a message, but I just don't want to be pulled into an internet sinkhole of skype, facebook etc. That type of constant communication would be way too much for me.

Please respect my photostream, it is not to be abused.

REALLY IMPORTANT, SO YOU DON'T TAKE OFFENCE

I'm not chained to the internet! I have a life outside Flickr, and while it is fun to post photos, some believe Flickr is not so much for photo sharing, but to be a friend collecting site instead. Maybe for some of you, it is, for me, it absolutely is not - it remains a photo sharing site, and I don't need it to become anything else. The original reason I used Flickr was because my hard drive had no place for the photos I wanted to keep. I never expected the photostream to be as popular as it is.

Be supportive, don't be a leech! Some people do take a shine to my photostream. Maybe they will comment, maybe they will write. If I ignore it, they move on, and find someone else to focus their attention on.

For others, if I write sometimes, or comment on their photostream, they are appreciative most of the time.

If you have issues like jealousy and / or a depressed state, this is largely irrelevant All of us get down sometimes. We might not be supported by our other half, so we get down. We might see other t-girls being supported by SO's or other friends, being successful and at first we’re all like, “Good for her!” but then ten minutes later we get the green envy and this poisonous, jealous feeling overwhelms us to the point that we say "Why not me? Why aren't I more popular? I'm better looking than she is!" (whether that is true or not doesn't matter) Those feelings don’t matter. They don’t help you or anyone else. They may be normal, rational, natural even, but they’re not useful and they’re certainly not interesting. Don't even think for a second that the fact you are having a down day should be inflicted on some poor other soul.

Respect that I might not just comment on your photostream, no matter how many times you might do on mine Some people, however, abuse this communication via Flickr - they think I can be 'on demand' when they want. This is not fair, nor a good way to treat people. They think only of themselves and their own validation. They do not attempt to consider the possibility that they, a Flickr contact, may not be the highest priority in my life. I might comment, I might not. It doesn't mean I hate you or love you. It just is, what it is!

I can't help you - only you can do that! Flickr is just one element of my life. I'm not in a position to make other t-girls feel better about themselves, praise the needy, or convince you that you are something are not. It's up to you to make what you can out of your life. Simply put, if you're not happy with something in your life, change it. Bleating to others about it won't change the fact that you need to do something.

I sometimes seem to be flypaper for freaks, though most of you genuine people on here are nice So. Happy to see you on here. Have fun with your photostream. Believe me, if I like yours, I will comment, but don't force the issue because I won't be manipulated. Many of you are decent on here, but for some others, My solution? *delete / block*.

My photostream exists first for *me* ! Don't like my photos? That's fine...move on, there's plenty more things to do with your life.

To the genuine flickr fans: Thank you for looking at the photos and commenting. If I don't get to thank you for your nice comments,I will say it again - I am very grateful. I'm sorry that I just don't have the time to reply to everyone, so please don't take offence to this.

Rachel