A professor tries transvestite prostitution — he’s caught. Miss Pennsylvania quits the pageant to protest TG contestants. Miss USA is cool with TG contestants. TV Grayson Perry has a TV show about taste. Trans United for Obama is formed. CeCe McDonald is sentenced, and more.
From the Queen of the Whole Universe contest to queens in The Queen City, we’ve got all the TG news that’s fit to put on a monitor. Sit back, relax and read about Drink & Drag, Jessie J dissing TVs, Rugby drag cheerleaders, Christine Jorgensen’s birthday and more!
A Texas teen crossdresser will get to graduate in drag. Justice has failed in two cases involving TGs. Chile will provide SRS to all who want it. The Transgender Hall of Fame seeks nominees. A TG themed movie at Cannes. And a whole lot more!
A ruling has been made in the TG demeaning bookie advert. Chrissy Polis is still traumatized. A TG prison guard is flourishing. A former firefighter/stripper is now a drag queen. Jenna loses! Black Madam strikes again. Lea T. has surgery. All that and more in TWIT!
A punk rocker has announced he’s going to be a woman. Argentina is a leader in TG rights. More beauty pageant news. Do crossdressers make safer drivers? Lady Bunny’s early survival job. A fire kills The Puerto Rican Beyonce. Hired and fired all in one day. It’s all in TWIT!
A Spice Girl and a drag queen are making beautiful music together. Drag sells Tupperware. A Puerto Rican queen is cooking healthy. A FtM student teacher is tossed out and the school may pay. CeCe pleads guilty. A transwoman is killed in Oakland. It’s all in TWIT.
From far Thailand and Singapore to San Francisco, Memphis, and the high seas — we’ve gathered the transgender news from around the world and present it for you in the column we call The Week In Transgenderism. TG porn stars on campus, ladyboy knife fights, drag on The Mentalist, and lots more!
Has Jenna Talachov unleashed a flood of TGs who want to compete in Miss Universe? What does Bill O’Reilly have against a little drag on “Glee”? Will a new bar in Las Vegas really be the first all drag staffed watering hole? Will Matt Lucas make a good Divine? And what’s all this about Chevalier D’Eon? Check your TWIT!
A-Rod stepping from the baseball diamond into a gown and diamond earrings? Competing in beauty pageants — a win for TGs? Kate Bornstein is content with ambiguity. An Angolan TS does techno rap. Osbourne and Pejic share award. RuPaul seeks queens for next season. All that and more in TWIT.
New flash! From around the world and down your street we bring you The Week In Transgenderism. Malaysia bans TS characters from the airwaves. The Canadian TG may participate in the pageant. A married couple in Minnesota beat their insurance fund. Iceland is not that safe for TGs, and a lot more in TWIT!
Charles Barkley has done a new ad for Weight Watchers — in drag. New York City has been instructed to make new birth certificates easier to get for TS people. There’s a list of the top 10 TG models. Music teacher by day — performer by night loses the teaching job. Alexia Rivera passes away. And a lot more in TWIT!
Sophie Lynne attended the 4th Annual Keystone Conference in Harrisburg. Pennsylvania last week and she has filed a report about the conference and all the fun she had. Lucky girl!
Rick Santorum makes no bones about the fact that he is for good old fashioned family values. Those of a family of Catholics from the 13th century. In Santorum’s world view there is no room for diversity. Dallas Denny points out one instance that reveals Santorum’s attitude about gender roles.
Dame Edma Everage has made a big announcement! The Canadian Miss Universe pageant has booted a TG contestant. Right wing conservatives fear a TG Darth Vader. A TG woman runs for the legislature in Nevada. A transman runs for Council in NYC. Firemen spray their hoses on a fire while in drag.
Barack Obama had a nanny who was transgendered? Yes but she was a “manny” when she was at work. Ron Perlman stars in a film as a TG woman. Huh? RuPaul throws a diva fit downunder. A high school student is suspended for wearing beige pumps to class. Didn’t they match his bag? It’s all in TWIT!
Susan Stanton is back at work, but not as City Manager. A TG student in Canada “spooks” the Governor General. ICE is chilling on treatment of TG detainees. Whatever happened to The Lady Chablis? Ebony Magazine features black TGs in their March issue. And more!
From Rio to Exeter, we cross the planet and back to bring you all the TG news. Drag pageants in Iowa, anti-discrimination bills in Maryland. Kinky Boots in Chicago, TG scam artists in England. It’s all grist for the TWIT mill.
It’s TWIT — The Week In Transgenderism. We bring you links to all the news, well most of the news, about TGs from around the world. Raquel Welch thinks Mae West was a drag queen. A FtM murderer in 1920s Australia. And more!
Another TG murder victim in our nation’s capital. Police have a suspect in custody. Conservatives fight a TG rights bill in Maryland. Andrej Pejic talks about his/her love life. Scotland — hotbed of drag performers. RuPaul makes ratings history. All that and more is in TWIT.
The tampon ad controversy from down under drags on. There’s a new transvestite comic in town. If you’re a TG in Canada maybe you should forget about flying if your presentation doesn’t match your documentation. A TG girl is Germany may be locked up cause her dad can’t accept her. More in TWIT!
Sweden, thought of as one of the most liberal countries on the planet is far from liberal in its treatment of transsexuals. Hoops must be jumped through and conditions must be met. One of the conditions is forced sterilization. Dallas Denny comments.
The Week In Transgenderism has it all this week. We cover the TG beat with stories on Drag Dance Classes in the U.K., the winner of the Miss’d America Pageant, inmates suing over body hair, Snooki with out her war paint, the rise of drag in the Holy Land, and more. Don’t miss your TWIT!
We scour the world for all the TG news we can find and present it in TWIT. This week we cover the ladyboy flight attendants first trip, fill you in on the hoopla surrounding the Massachusetts TG rights bill signing, reveal a CD in the Kardasian house, and a lot more.
Nikki Araquz is in more legal trouble. Chris Crocker — the “Leave Britney Alone!” YouTube star causes a stir by getting butch. What do Girl Scout Cookies have to do with Bobby Montoya? Tennessee has gender police? RuPaul is cool with the T word. More in TWIT!
It’s all the transgender news we could find ! We’ve got the story about the film director who felt up his TG niece at the gym. There’s news of RuPaul throwing her wig into the Presidential race. Aussie queen Courtney Act is making it in Hollywood. Atlantic City is marketing to GLBT people — and more!
Israel has it’s own pregnant man. No, wait. He gave birth. Meet TS roller derby star Kayley Whalen. A TG supermodel takes to the jungle. Manila Luzon or Drag Race fame does a makeover video for New Year’s Eve. Eddie Izzard learns to say aarggh. And more in TWIT.
