Philadelphia Trans Wellness Conference Virtual Participation Registration has Launched! Having fear of missing out on this year’s Philadelphia Trans Wellness Conference? Perhaps you live far from Philadelphia and the timing and travel wouldn’t work for you. Maybe you missed the registration deadline or you might just feel more comfortable participating from home. We’re excited the announce the […]
If you live on the southern shore of Lake Huron and have been looking for a safe space that provides support and fellow LGBTQ+ people Blue Water Ally Center is now open. Learn more about who they are and what they do. What is the name of your organization? Where are you based? The Blue […]
Our friends at The Breast Form Store are often contacted by transgender support group seeking donation of gender-affirming products. The Store asks these organizations to fill out a questionnaire about their mission. The Breast Form Store shares that information with TGForum so transgender people needing support can find these groups. Today we feature I Support The Girls.
Today Shelley Anne steps out of the role on interviewer to report on a new book that the authors hope will help children, and adults, to welcome diversity. The book is titled “My Cat Fred Wears a Skirt”. Shelley tells us all about it, and what she wore at the book signing.
TGF has been contacted by a researcher at Harvard who is conducting a study on how feminizing hormones affect heart and metabolic health. They are looking for transgender women from around the U.S. to participate. Participants will be compensated. Read on for more information.
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.
Liberty Storer took an informal poll of women who were in or had been in relationships with crossdressers. Eighty nine women completed her survey and Liberty breaks down the resulting data in this blog post.
Patty Spencer is an older, gender nonconforming lesbian and mother of a trans son.She is also a romance novelist whose current project is a love story between a cisgender lesbian and a trans woman lesbian. Both characters are 50+ years old. Patty contacted TGForum looking for beta readers and an authenticity reader to help her […]
Recently we were contacted by Michael Edmonson, the CEO of Worthy Mentoring. Their website and phone app allow members of the LGBTQ+ community to make themselves available to mentor others, and connects people seeking help to mentors. At the moment they have enough LGBQ people to handle those parts of the community and they are […]
The following came to us from the folks at My Transgender Date. They conducted a survey of their membership base about their coming out experience. I’m Vince, Public Relations at My Transgender Date. October 11th was the annual National Coming Out Day, so I thought you’d be interested in a study we did with our […]
Los Angeles, CA: The all new and exciting one-hour Black LGBTQIA talk show, The House is now on Fox Television Network’s new streaming platform Fox Soul. The series premiered Friday, October 8, 2021 and is available for free on Foxsoul.tv, Roku, and other platforms. Featuring a panel of queer and transgender guests and hosts, The […]
If you register on TGForum to take advantage of the extras that come when you login–you must be sure to activate your account by verifying your email address. When you submit your registration form the site generates an email to the address you put in the email field of the form. You must respond to […]
Chrissy Gann uses her post today to provide a comprehensive list of words used when talking about transgender issues, gender identity and gender expression. This is the culmination of an effort to compile as many different words spread over many sources and to define those words. Some of the definitions may be off base and you may not agree with Chrissy’s interpretation of the word’s meaning. TGForum may not agree with some. The compilation and interpretation is all Chrissy’s.
There are around 70 people who at some point in the last few months signed up for a TGForum account but they languish in isolation, unable to login and create a profile because they have not followed up and activated their accounts. When you register for TGForum you should receive an activation email. That’s so […]
For the past six years, California-based journalist Shelley Anne Baker has engaged with the transgender community and loves it! She came out big time when she decided to reveal her feminine side to her wife and family and has never looked back. She’s not shy about telling trusted people, who will listen, about her life’s […]
Our friends at TransgenderDate sent us the following press release about a new service they are offering. Las Vegas, Feb 21, 2019 – TransgenderDate, one of the worlds leading trans dating websites, is delighted to announce their new Quick Match feature. Members are now able to let other members now they are interested in them […]
Post a question or comment in the Discussion Forum (accessible from the menu bar labeled Transgender Forum). Pick one of the current topics in the Forum or create a new topic. When you’ve typed your comment, before you click the Submit button, make sure the box that sends you an email when someone responds to […]
Jan Brown, like many in the trans community who don’t have legal recognition of their femme persona, has a credit card in her name attached to the account registered in her legal name. But recently a problem cropped up when the credit card company felt they needed to know more about Jan Brown. They requested more information than was formerly required. For one thing they wanted her Social Security number. How did Jan respond to their request?
[youtube]zlTjKBg0GfU[/youtube] You’ll want to be a part of this special show, My Golden Years at Finocchio’s, on August 14 as David’s documentarian will be filming his performance for use in the documentary film about David and Finocchio’s. Speaking of which, here is a rare photo of David at Finocchio’s with Paul Ryner, David’s partner, and […]
A research study on sexual preferences is looking for input from the trans community. I you would like to participate your contribution will remain completely anonymous. Here is the call for participants: My name is Bogdan Kostic and I’m an assistant professor of psychology at Missouri State University. I’m doing research on people’s sexual preferences […]
To everyone all around the world, Merry Christmas, a smashing Boxing Day and a very Happy New Year! From all of us at TGForum! May 2016 be a year of progress in understanding of trans issues and peace and joy to everyone.
Dawn is a mom of two boys and two girls. Both the boys exhibit gender fluid tendencies and one of them seems to be more than slightly interested in being a girl. But that’s not the whole story. While in the hospital for treatment of a collapsed lung Dawn met a guy she knew she had to know better. Now his name is Hannah and Hannah is a girl and Dawn is okay with that.
It’s mid-year and we just celebrated perhaps the most important holiday in US history. Let’s do something special. Dr. Harold M. Reed’s office is offering the next 5 vaginoplasty patients a surgical fee of $5,000 each. Some additional expenses will be incurred such as anesthesia, travel, supplies, and hotel stay. To qualify as a surgical […]
