Today Nikki Nicole asks if you think TGs are weak or strong. She asks because she’s noticed that some of the community seem to embrace the word “sissy.” Are you a sissy if you have male parts but dress up like a woman? Doesn’t it make you a strong person to face the trials that crossdressing can submit you to and isn’t it being a sissy to hide in your closet? See what Nikki thinks and read Weak or Strong?
As the transgender world is dug into like an Alaskan snow drift it’s revealing all sorts of things to the world. The community is opening up to a world of questions from the media. With every positive outing there is always a negative shadow lurking somewhere in some other article. I see so much negativity […]
Dr. Dana Bevan has a confession to make. For fifty years she identified as a non-transsexual transgendered person. And as such she kept her TG feelings and desires hidden. She concentrated on service to her country and things stayed that way until the end of the cold war. That’s when her identity had to change and she realized she was a transsexual person. That’s when she also came to feel that no TS should put down non-TS TGs.
Today we say farewell to someone we first got to know several years ago. But we are not sad because his departure has opened the door for the full time existence of Sophie Lynne. Today is the last day the departing male will be around. On Tuesday Sophie begins her new life, full time, with no net. How did she get to this point? She tells all in her post today.
Nikki Nicole makes a case today for members of the transgender community to not just talk the talk, but walk the walk. Or as she abbreviates it, “walk the talk.” What is her basic thesis? If you’re going to go out in public en femme then don’t dress like a hooker. Check out Nikki’s reasoning and let us know what you think of her thesis in the comment area.
RachelX has graduated from the “sub” category of the SMBD scene and has now achieved Dominatrix status. As a Dom she is often approached by subs seeking to participate in “scenes” under Rachel’s control. In this post she details the binding and flogging of a sub who sought her out.
Dee Levy feels that there are transgendered women who don’t tell their wives the “whole truth” when they start to open up about their true nature but opt to ease into it by identifying as a crossdresser. Then the wives are confused when their husband starts to look more and more feminine. Then Dee has to break the news when they visit The Cross Dressers’ Wives Forum.
Do prenatal testosterone levels cause transgender behavior? Is MTF transgenderism caused by low prenatal testosterone levels and FTM transgenderism caused by levels that are too high. The Prenatal Testosterone Theory of Transgenderism was developed by some East German scientists in an effort to please their socialist and Soviet masters during the 1960’s that recommended that […]
Many people in the transgender community view their lives as journeys on a road that leads to another life in a different gender. Others reach a mile marker that feels like home and there they stay. Some go so far but then head back to just a little farther along than where they started. Sophie Lynne is a long way down the road. In Metaphor Fair she tells you how she feels, in blank verse.
One characteristic of attractive women is a slim waistline. Often it’s hard for a crossdresser, particularly those over a certain age, to achieve that svelte feature without serious dieting and exercise. How many sit-ups did you say? Fear not! Tasi Zuriack instructs you on the less strenuous methods by which one may acquire the illusion of a smaller waist. In other words she lets you know how to fake it.
TG people have been around in Asia for more years than anyone can remember. From China to Thailand, from Indonesia to The Philippines, or from Japan to Korea, the “third gender” have been omnipresent for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Many Asian cultures have long accepted, or liberally tolerated, the presence of “new-halfs” or […]
Nikki Nicole joins us with a commentary on how we girls are always “izing.” As in moisturizing, accessorizing, and making attempts at minimizing. Does it make us slaves to the industries that have been built selling beauty products and fashion fripperies? Or does the care that we take succeed in maximizing our realness and legitimizing us as women? See what Nikki has to say.
Just when the mainstream media is getting used to the term “transgender” and we’re able to start issuing fewer TWIT Awards to newspapers and websites for their misuse or non-use of the word The Artist D let’s us know that there’s a new word they’ll need to become familiar with. It’s lurking in the shadows now. It can be heard on college campuses and other places where nuanced reasoning crops up. What’s the word? Genderqueer.
Dee Levy is the founder of CrossDressersWives.com, a website devoted to the the emotional support of the wives of crossdressers who have not been honest with their partners. The dishonesty causes a lot of pain and suffering and most of the CDWs end up at ex wives of crossdressers. Sometimes Dee’s advice can be a bit strident but her message may help you to no make the mistakes she and other CDWs find unforgivable.
It seems like that children today show more diseases than in past times, probably we adults are more exigent and want them to be already perfect even at a really young age. In particular, many parents tend to expect too much from their babies, probably because they have only one child and want to get […]
Since no one has any idea of why transgendered people exist, other than we are born that way, there are theories that circulate. One of them is that while in the womb a fetus is subjected to “baths” of hormones and too much of one or too little of another gives the child masculine or feminine gender mapping in their brain. The hormone theory is based on research that you may find shocking, and Dr. Dana Bevan says it is just plain wrong.
We welcome a new contributor to TGF. Terri Lee Ryan is a woman who was married to a crossdresser. Unlike some spouses of CDs when she discovered he was a crossdresser (after wondering where her pantyhose kept disappearing to) she took the time to get to know her husband’s femme side and they added “her” to their lives. Now Terri is producing television shows about crossdressing. Meet her and maybe you can be on TV.
Many moons ago, I wrote a column about Labels in the TG Community. Crossdresser, Full time, post op, all the different divisions that comprise the wide TG tapestry. Back then, I railed against these artificial divisions. Back then, I said we should all be one community and not undermine each other. Back then, I didn’t […]
Graham Holmes, our man in a dress, went on holiday in November. The spot he usually went to on the island of Grenada had closed so he was facing a trip to a new resort. His efforts before the holiday to inform the establishment of his sartorial habits caused confusion and initial rejection but thanks to a woman he knew from his previous Grenada vacations it was all sorted out and the vacation was a go. How did it turn out?
Nikki Nicole has been out and about in the transgender community for only a year. Now she takes some time to look back and see who she was a year ago and who she is today. Thinking about how she got to where she is she asked herself the question, “What would my life be without my feminine side?” Find out how she answered the question and read “Free to be Nikki.”
This month The Artist D kicks a bit at kick starter fundraising on the Internet. It seems that everyone in need of money for every imaginable reason is jumping on the Web to set up a crow funding campaign. Are they all just digital beggars? The Artist D is a proud cyber whore who gave her web cam viewers value for their largesse. Is it wrong that now people just ask for the cash? Find out what The Artist D thinks and read Transgender Telethon.
New years are seen as chances for new beginnings. We can stop the negative things we’ve been doing and make a change for the better. If you have been reading Dee Levy’s Crossdresser’s Wife posts you all ready know that what she counsels all CDs and TGs who are in relationships to do is come clean in the new year. Look your partner in the eye and give them the whole story. Read Truth and see if you can take that challenge.
Most crossdressers and many transgendered people remain in the closet for one reason — fear. They fear rejection by their family and friends so they keep quiet about their hidden nature. But the pressure to tell someone, sometime, becomes greater and greater every day. The hiding produces guilt and can lead to many negative physical and psychological problems. If a TG comes out to their spouse how should the spouse react? Find out in this post from T.R.U.S.T.
Did you know keeping secrets can have negative physical consequences? Sure, you’ve been keeping your crossdressing a secret because you fear negative physical consequences from your loved ones or associates. Fear of the negative reaction of friends, family and society in general is what makes a transgendered person keep their inclinations a secret. Dr. Dana Bevan tells us about the effects of keeping the real you a secret.
Our Doodle contributor from England, Catie Maye, is not only a cartoonist but she is an author. Her book, set to be released in the U.K. in early February, is title Men Can Wear Dresses Too. It tells the story of Catie’s life and incorporates information taken from the most influential and respected surveys of the past 40 years. By special arrangement with her publisher, Authorhouse, we’re happy to bring you an excerpt from the book.
Many of us live in fear. Everything from fear of missing a bus to fear of being mugged; fear of paying too much for something or fear of being outed as a crossdresser or TG. All of these fears exist and sometimes, like the one about being outed, the fears can repress us and dominate us. They can keep us from being who we really are. Sophie Lynne has been facing her fears. Today she tells us about them and tells us a secret about fighting fear.
