At Dina’s Diner Dina Amberle takes ingredients from mainstream culture and mixes them in with some crossdressing spice. Today she has one special on the menu that’s based on the evolution of pockets. Next is a work of art inspired by the persecution of drag performers. The return of big hair and the exposure of nipples in fashion shows is sure to satisfy. Try these specials and more today at Dina’s Diner.
Our contributor Shelley Anne Baker normally does interviews for TGF. This week she departs from the interview format and covers a topic that she wants to personally explore. Shelly wants to date a transgender woman. In this post she talks about the urge and explains why she finds trans women attractive.
RuPaul wins another Emmy! Doctor Who features more transgender characters and actors. They’re making a movie out of Shucked. Priscilla the Party! tells the story a unique way. Trace Lysette takes a behind the scenes role in a documentary series about 4 people fighting for trans rights and equality during the Trump presidency. Don’t miss the trans entertainment news!
Jennell Jaquays passed away early on Wednesday, January 10. She was 67. She was recovering from Guillain-Barré syndrome. Sophie recalls how she got to know Jennell through the gaming world and how they bonded over common gaming interests.
Trace Lysette is a rising transgender star getting great reviews for her work in the film Monica. She plays the title character, a trans woman who reunites, and cautiously makes peace with the family she fled, as they take care of their ailing mother (played by Patricia Clarkson), who at first doesn’t recognize her daughter. […]
TransTainment is here! What’s going on with transgender people in entertainment? The Tennessee anti-drag legislation could affect legit stage shows like Kinky Boots or Some Like It Hot. Country stars gather to give a concert supporting trans people in Tennessee. Drew Barrymore and Dylan Mulvaney exchange tips on how to deal with online haters. An eight-year-old Spanish actress wins an award for playing a trans girl. Panti Bliss is on Ireland’s Dancing With the Stars. And more!
What do we know at the end of the year? The trans woman elected to a city council in New Jersey faces a recount. The TSA is rolling out gender-neutral scanners. The Medical University of South Carolina told the state legislature that it is no longer providing hormone treatments to transgender minors. The New Hampshire legislature is working on a bill banning gender affirming care for minors. Another study finds LGBTQ+ people get the dirty end of the stick. Arizona has acted to take away rights of transgender minors. The International Olympic Committee releases guidelines for the inclusion of transgender athletes. J.K. Rowlings won’t shut up and go away. drag performer Eureka O’Hara comes out as trans. Meanwhile Monet X Change has a role in an opera. Spain passes a gender recognition reform bill. The BBC names two trans women in their list of 100 Women in the news. TERFs complain. There’s all that and more waiting for you in Trans News Now!
it’s the festive time of year when glitter, faux snow flakes, and quaffing eggnog occurs. It’s a time of parties and fine dining. In other words, it’s time to dress to impress. Today Lorraine Anderson, the top seamstress at The Occasional Woman has one suggestion to make you the bell of the ball – Velvet!
if there’s one thing you can say about Kandi Robbins it’s that she is busy, busy, busy. October saw her modeling bridal gowns in two bridal shows. She was selected to be Miss December in a calendar, and she had an online conversation with Tom Hanks. Kandi is so busy that she had no time to write a blog post for TGF so she sent us photos and videos from the bridal shows
Dana Bevan gives you the latest numbers relating to the transgender community. Her stats were collected in June and cover a lot of ground. From the percentage of young people declaring a trans identity to the number of genes in the DNA of trans people that are different from those in members of the general public, Dana breaks it down for you.
Rabbah Rona Matlow connects Pride with Juneteenth and demonstrates how God created us in God’s image and we were created with infinite possibility of sex and gender. And an infinite possibility of sexuality. Therefore, gay, straight, bi, pan, poly – it’s all kosher.
What’s that latest transgender news? A transgender woman is running for the office of Pennsylvania state representative. A trans man is running in Oregon. News about the Catholic Church’s position on trans people. A woman in Oklahoma starts her own church when her former church refuses to accept her trans son. More news about state legislatures’ attacks on trans rights. A surgeon in New Delhi is planning to transplant a uterus into a trans woman. Actress L Morgan Lee is the first trans woman nominated for a Tony award. Marvel Comics announces two new transgender superheroes. Calvin Klein runs an ad featuring a pregnant man. RuPaul has become three of the Little People. The teach who refused to use preferred pronouns with his students has resigned. This Pride Target will be selling chest binders and packers for gender nonconforming customers. Beto O’Rourke is running to defeat Texas Governor Greg Abbott. Beto is the total opposite of Abbott. There’s all that and a bit more waiting for you in Trans News Now.
While states are passing laws to limit or remove the rights of transgender people more and more transgender representation is happening. Trans actors are being cast in television and film projects and not just in primarily transgender roles. As these actors build their fan base they are using their status to advocate for transgender rights. Today Hunter Schafer and Laverne Cox have things to say about the anti trans laws. We also meet a trans woman actor in India who is the star of an award winning film, and meet Yasmin Finney of Heartstopper. And more!
Eden Carlsen moderates a teen girls discussion group. They talk at length about LGBTQ+ categories and issues. Eden writes today about the way her discussion group really digs in and looks at what it’s like for other people who are not comfortable being pushed toward societal expectations. Something as simple as the group members learning to respect other people’s pronouns gives Eden hope for a more accepting future.
Sophie Lynne writes about loss and how secrecy over gender identity can mean that people we know in their true gender often just disappear when they pass away. When family and friends are not aware of of their loved one’s real self obituaries and tombstones only display the legal name of the deceased. Meanwhile their “found family” never gets to say goodbye.
Today’s Sabrina Symington cartoon is more about herself than any comment on the community. But, how many of our readers tend to be like Sabrina?
Sophie Lynne has written about how Halloween is the holiday that pushed her toward coming out as her true self. She has also written about how to have a fun femme time at various Halloween parties. Today she writes about what not to do on Halloween, particularly if you are not out to your friends and neighbors.
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It’s 1956 and Ramona is a transgender girl from Texas trying to make her way in the big city. To get by she has to utilize what she has at her disposal. Jack meets for breakfast with the fashion buyer Suzie. Meanwhile Ramona is having a different kind of breakfast with Nikki.
David de Alba was born and raised in Cuba until his family moved to Chicago in the mid 1960s. A hairdresser who noticed de Alba’s similarity in facial structure to the star Judy Garland made him up to look just like her. Soon David was doing shows at female impersonation clubs singing Garland’s songs, not lip syncing to a record. Read this interview with The Cuban Legend conducted by Shelley Anne Baker.
It’s 1956 and Ramona is a transgender girl from Texas trying to make her way in the big city. To get by she has to utilize what she has at her disposal. This evening Ramona has gotten mixed up with some fashion buyers and one of them, a cat named Box, wanted her to act nice to another buyer to his benefit. Looking to avoid a confrontation she retreats to the ladies room but Box is waiting for her. Jack steps in to defend her by punching Box in the face but Box retaliates and makes Jack’s nose bleed. Who will protect Ramona? What happens next?
Sophie Lynne lost a friend a few days ago, someone who was very active in her local support organization and was very comfortable relating to the world from a feminine place. But she was not out to her family, meaning a friend from the trans community had to go to her home and clean out all hints that a woman was living there. Sophie’s friend will be laid to rest as a male and her friends from the community won’t even know that name. Sophie writes about how that feels.
In the June 8, 2020 TWIT news post (The Week In Trans) our news compiler Cecilia Barzyk included a story from Pink News concerning a person known as Fred Sargeant. The Pink News story alleged Mr. Sargeant had lied about his role in the 1968 Stonewall Riots. Based on the Pink News story, written by […]
The Covid-19 pandemic has affected our entire society but Dana Bevan focuses on the parts of the transgender community and how the pandemic has affected us. Things that provided relief to dysphoria, such as support group meetings, days long conferences, and simple things like hugs have all been suspended. Will those parts of our transgender culture come back after the pandemic?
Today Rabba Rona, a disabled queer trans rabbi who served in the U.S. Navy writes that she was appalled and outraged when federal agents beat a Navy veteran on the street in Portland, Oregon when he did nothing wrong except ask them a question about what they were there to do. Whether you are conservative or liberal you should read Rona’s post and view the video of the vet being beaten. It should be a warning to all of us.
