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University of Victoria Chair in Transgender Studies Newsletter
Dr. Aaron Devor is the current Chair in Transgender Studies and he is the first Chair in Transgender Studies at the University of Victoria. Dr. Devor has been studying and teaching about transgender topics for more than thirty years. He is the author of numerous well-cited scholarly articles, and the widely-acclaimed books. Every week the […]
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Introducing the TGF User Photo Gallery
TGForum brings back user photos! Not like we did in the ’90s. Now you can upload a photo and after its approved (no nudity or other naughtiness) it will be added to our new TGForum User Gallery. (300MB maximum size.)
Trans News Now 10/17/22
A trans politician is asked impertinent questions. WHO declares gender affirming care is essential. A federal judge won’t block Florida’s ban on using Medicaid to pay for trans health care. Homicides of trans people has doubled in the past four years. The Ohio Board of Education heard testimony on a bill to ban trans women from sports but did not take a vote. In Virginia a new bill makes it a felony for parents to not support their transgender children. The Selective Service points out transgender women are eligible for the draft. Will the number of transgender people showing up to vote be contingent on having been able to change their I.D. legally? Trans women get cancer at almost the same rate among cisgender women. England’s NHS has drafted new guidelines for the treatment of trans youth. Their Justice Secretary has announced new guidelines for housing transgender prisoners. A conference brings together Two-Spirit people. There’s that and more waiting for you in Trans News Now.
Dina’s Diner 10/17/22
Dina Amberle has been hard at work in the Dina’s Diner kitchen and she’s put together a deliciously informative and entertaining menu. First she dishes up a palette clearing treat of trans visibility for people in the know. Then she serves a course of Buddhist monks who give up their robes for designer dresses. That is followed by a course of a 22-year-old online gamer who dolls up to compete. Then comes the main course, an ample serving of staged photographs that count as art. A tasty dessert of game show beaties tops it all off.
Trans in Film and Video 10/17/22
Drag Race stars star in a Hocus Pocus-inspired Halloween parody show. Ava Grey’s work on Atlanta received acclaim for her performance as Lorraine. Timothée Chalamet is being lauded as a style icon. Joyland is chosen to represent Pakistan for the 95th Academy Awards in the ‘International Feature Film’ category. And that’s just a bit of the news about transgender people in film and video.
Review: Divine Collection Hera Breast Forms
Angela Gardner takes The Breast Form Store’s Divine Collection Hera breast forms for a test ride. She outlines the experience from placing the order to unpacking the forms after they arrived, and wearing them with and without a bra. With her Hera forms attached Angela reports they boost a girl’s crossdressing fun.
Trans Spirituality, Sukkot
Rabbah Rona Matlow writes about the Fall Festival of Sukkot. A celebration that requires Jews to make a temporary structure outside their homes. The structure is meant to remind the faithful of the image of God spreading a Sukkah or covering of Peace over them as they lay down to sleep.
Twit Awards for the Week 10/17/22
While assembling the stories for the new Cecilia Barzyk comes across silly fools who don’t understand transgender issues and just don’t care to. They bash us and introduce legislation against us. We call these people twits and in this post Cecilia tells you who they are and what they’ve said and done that makes them a twit.
Trans News Now 10/10/22
Today we learn that a 15-year-old trans girl is the homecoming princess of her school. Various professional medical organizations have asked the Department of Justice to investigate the people behind threats to hospitals providing gender affirmative care to minors. Oregon is not good about issuing death certificates in the deceased’s true gender. A federal judge rules against the Biden administration’s protecting LGBTQ people in education and employment. While gender-affirming care is still legal for adults is all 50 states lawmakers across the country are starting to consider attacking adult rights. A local TV reporter comes out on the air. Arizona students walk out of class to protest their governor’s anti-trans policies. A transgender officer in the U.S. Army is charged with giving private health records to Russia. Jamie Clayton is Pinhead on Hulu. Reviewers weigh-in on the all-femme version of 1776. Drag Race star Gigi Goode has legally transitioned to female. That’s just a bit of news. Don’t miss out on any of it! Read Trans News Now right now!
An Interview with Jennifer Finney Boylan
Shelley Anne interviews author, columnist and transgender activist Jennifer Finney Boylan. Ms. Boylan talks about her life, her writing, various other activities, and her new book, Mad Honey.
A Sabrina Symington Cartoon: Archaeology
Archaeologists study the past by examining the burial places of people who lived long ago. Skeletal differences are a part if what allows identification of the deceased’s gender. Taken with other factors the archeologist can make a good guess regarding gender presentation. But some people, mostly haters, don’t understand the science. Today one of them makes a firm pronouncement to Bria on how future archaeologists will learn what he believes about her is true.
A Failure to Communicate: What Just Happened?
Linda was attending a meeting of transgender individuals interested in forming a support group in their area. All was going well until the spirit of cooperation that had prevailed in the organizational meeting was suddenly broken and ‘all heck broke loose’.
Living with a Crossdresser
Liberty Storer got divorced after fifteen years of marriage and met a new man a short time later. He was exciting, sensual, and unknown to her he was a crossdresser. That soon came out and she tried to educate herself about crossdressing in otherwise macho men. While she was attempting to cope with his dressing in private she didn’t know he was not telling her about a lot of his activities while dressed.
Twit Awards for the Week 10/10/22
While assembling the stories for the new Cecilia Barzyk comes across silly fools who don’t understand transgender issues and just don’t care to. They bash us and introduce legislation against us. We call these people twits and in this post Cecilia tells you who they are and what they’ve said and done that makes them a twit.
Trans News Now 10/3/22
Hannah Gadsby will host a Netflix special with genderqueer comics from all over the world. Amy Schneider gets married. California is now a sanctuary state for trans youth and their families. Cubans vote to legalize marriage for LGBTQ+ citizens. Florida’s attempt to deny Medicaid coverage of gender-affirming care for trans youth gets major blowback from medical professional organizations. Thousands of students in Virginia walkout to protest the governor’s treatment of trans students. Cornbread Jeté of Drag Race fame announces she has cancer. Oklahoma’s senate votes to deny state funds to hospitals that treat minors with confirming gender care. Some are just noticing that the WPATH guidelines have dropped an age requirement for treatment letting providers judge whether a patient is mature enough. While more young trans males are getting mastectomies, breast augmentation surgery for young transgender females is more common. And that’s just a taste of all the transgender news
Counterbalancing These Feelings
Kandi Robbins’s post tells us how she learned how to stop hating what she was and came to accept it. And she regrets that the years of self loathing kept her miserable and not much fun to be around. Learn how she came to not just accept Kandi but loves her whole heartedly.
TransTainment 10/3/22
Angela Gardner covers the entertainment scene and finds trans performers working on projects in TV, film and other media. Today TransTainment has news about a new music video from Sam Smith and Kim Petras, a new version of Spiderman, Web Weaver, who is out and proud, what Jamie Clayton looks like as Pinhead, and more!
Answers to Old Questions
In this post Sophie answers the questions she posted last week, ones she asked herself in 2010. Take a look and see if you find yourself asking similar questions in your alone time. Some of Sophie’s answers may be applicable to your situation.
Schools Are Pathologizing Children
Dr. Dana Bevan reports that schools across the country are using mass amounts of personal information that they collect in order to pathologize children. They are using unproven methods, to diagnose mental illness in students. The information they collect and retain could ruin prospects for high school, college, and jobs for students. In today’s post Dr. Bevan tells you what methods are used and why we should be concerned.
Getting Old Isn’t Fun
Pauline Estelle ponders the many, many changes she has seen through the decades of her life. Of course there are personal changes related to aging but she also writes about the changes in the world, like the creation of computers, smartphones and the World Wide Web.
Chapter Nine – Life Is The Dream
Today we have Chapter 9 of Chrissy Gann’s story, The Stained Glass Dream. Amy and Jen are happily married and have settled in to a comfortable routine. What could possibly happen in Chapter 9? Read on.
Twit Awards for the Week 10/3/22
While assembling the stories for the new Cecilia Barzyk comes across silly fools who don’t understand transgender issues and just don’t care to. They bash us and introduce legislation against us. We call these people twits and in this post Cecilia tells you who they are and what they’ve said and done that makes them a twit.
Trans News Now 9/26/22
A drag star who appeared on Drag Race U.K. passes away at the age of 28. A judge blocks the Texas Department of Child Protective Services from investigating parents who support their trans kids. Virginia replaces school policies that protected trans students with new policies that harm trans students. The city of Denver tests a program that gives money to homeless trans, nonbinary, and other vulnerable groups. The Keystone Conference is March 22-26 in Harrisburg, Pa. A group called Gays Against Groomers is banned from Google, PayPal and Venmo. The Montana Department of Health accepts affidavits as proof for gender change. An anti trans book in England was approved by the National Education Union until they looked at it more closely and it was quickly unapproved. A protest against Children’s Hospital in Boston drew a small group of people angry over the hospital’s trans youth program but counter protestors showed up in much greater numbers. There’s all that and much more happening around the world. Get all the stories from Trans News Now!
Finding the Color That Works for You
Finding the colors that go best with you isn’t always so easy when you’re just beginning to explore your femme side. You can find all sorts of methods for determining which colors of attire work best with your skin tone and it can all be pretty confusing. Lorraine Anderson has a sure fire way to quickly determine your best color match. Read on the find out what she recommends.
Hair, Today
Today Christy writes about the influence of ’60s girl groups on her choice of hairstyles. Not so much the styles the girl groups sported but the image they projected, which was one of poise, confidence and beauty. Their hair was the finishing touch. But read on! Things are about to get hairy. In a good way, as Christy reveals her influences and her own changing coiffure.
Blast from the Past
Grad school seems to be demanding Sophie Lynne’s full attention so she steps back to 2010 and looks at the questions she had for herself back then. Give them a read and see if you are asking yourself the same question in 2022.
Chapter 28 – Disaster at Work
Savannah has risen to a position of authority as the DJ Harris company. It helped that the CEO is a trans woman. But having that advantage would not have been much help if Savannah did not deliver insightful, suggestions that increased the bottom line. Chapter 28 begns with the ladies of DJ Harris having dinner at Savannah’s new apartment. Little do the ladies know that disaster is preparing to befall the company.
Twit Awards for the Week 9/26/22
While assembling the stories for the new Cecilia Barzyk comes across silly fools who don’t understand transgender issues and just don’t care to. They bash us and introduce legislation against us. We call these people twits and in this post Cecilia tells you who they are and what they’ve said and done that makes them a twit.
