Last week our Miss Isato wrote about the need for T girls to mature and stop hanging around in the same old venues, wearing the same hair, makeup and clothes and telling the same old stories. Do we really do that? Some of us do. Many of us hang in the same old places because […]
It’s time to get trans-visible this week. HRC says again: No ENDA without the T. Gainesville voters do the right thing, as New Hampshire lawmakers chicken out. Cancer claims a bright star in Australia. Isis is post-op and is sporting a big rock. Another Hollywood macho man picks up his dress from the cleaners, as […]
Dina’s Diner serves up a healthy selection of organic vegatables, free range chicken and “green” grown coffee — along with interesting items from the news spiced up with Dina Amberle’s cutting commentary. This month she’s got several items on the menu and they’re all sure to please. Take a booth, order a cup of java […]
Ronnie Rho has all the news from all over creation that features TGs in anyway. From “mantyhose” to drag queen Don Mclean, you’ll find it all in TWIT Notes.
Those who keep track of the numbers have already warned this would be a record year for GLBT murders. And as if you underline that point, five more people, two possibly trans have been killed in the last few days.
Welcome to the November 17, 2008 edition of TGForum! Today we bring you This Week In Transgenderism, as always, featuring news from down the block, up the street and around the world that features transgendered people. This week Ronnie Rho has given herself writer’s cramp, monitor eyeball and Google wrist while compiling a vast array […]
They seem to have found the TS gene! How long before we start hearing about a “cure” for transsexuality? Leo gets pelted by a wet condom at a drag show. DQ’s in NYC have a rummage sale ahead of Halloween. Advice columnists are pelted with questions about transgender relationships. Forced SRS in South Africa? A […]
We’re in! In vogue, anyway, according to one magazine, which also points out, someday soon, we’ll be cliche’. A TS has dropped sexual assault charges. A Cleveland TV reporter says some very rude things. The transgender population in one Texas town may be larger than anyone could have imagined. And phantom pain plagues a post-op. […]
(The following was found scrawled on a cocktail napkin in the lobby of the Crowne Plaza Ravinia, three days after the end of Southern Comfort Convention. It’s author, believed to be Transgender Forum columnist Ronnie Rho, is still missing. We are grateful to the unidentified person who found the napkin and passed it along to […]
A few weeks ago, TWIT Notes mentioned a new online job search site for the transgender community. This week, we talk with the woman behind TJobBank: Jillian Barfield.
A huge victory for TG employment rights in Federal Court. Civil rights for some, but not all in one Georgia town. “Transgender panic” in Colorado. Voluntary segregation in Chicago. A village built specifically for the TG in India. Charges of discrimination on a bus in Philly. And no more Cox on Diddy’s show. All around […]
David Schroer was a decorated member of an elite Special Forces unit. He rose through the ranks to become a colonel, trusted enough to brief the Vice-President on anti-terrorism efforts. Schroer was offered a job with the Library of Congress, as an analyist on terrorism. But before starting that position, Schroer told the supervisor about […]
In the past decade or two those seeking gender reassignment surgery most often had to travel to strange, remote, or exotic places for their procedures. Tales of trips to Montreal, Vancouver, Trinidad (Colorado, not the island nation that brought us the steel drum and Calypso) and Thailand abound. Now there is a new exotic sounding […]
Comprehensive National Survey on Transgender Discrimination Launched by National Center for Transgender Equality and National Gay and Lesbian Task Force WASHINGTON, DC September 11, 2008 — In the wake of one of the most violent years on record of assaults on transgender people, the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) and the National Gay and […]
Nina Flowers is the one A press release from the Logo cable channel has announced that Nina Flowers is the winner of the web competition component of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Ms. Flowers will go on to compete with other contestants in the Logo television show to air in the spring. Our Drag Race Blogger Luna […]
Reality TV is thick with transgendered cast members and mentions this summer! Not to mention several new movies with gender-themes are out or are coming soon. Gender identity isn’t swept under the rug at the Democratic National Convention. And the fight for rights continues at the local level in Florida and Maryland. A famous TG […]
Tyra invites a TG onto her reality TV show. Colin Farrell allegedly steals a copy of Tootsie from a video store. Civil rights battles continue in Maryland, Florida, and in a Dallas bar. Clarification from Democrats on their party platform. Another rising star is turning heads in the NYC music scene. And gender outlaws in […]
The TWIT never sleeps! In this special update, we have another drag queen appearing on national TV, another battle over bathroom rights, and a special TWIT of the Mid-Week!
We here at TGF’s TWIT Notes believe the phrase “breaking news” is overused. So, we’re not going to contribute to the clutter. However, from time to time, we do come across information too hot to wait until our weekly update, and so now, we break into our regularly scheduled programming to bring you these:
The Democratic Party has released their 2008 PRIDE Proclamation. Read the text of the Proclamation in their news release. And yes, they included “transgender Americans” in the wording.
On the first of May the American Psychiatric Association (APA) announced the members of the work groups who will review scientific advances and research based information to develop the fifth edition of APA’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V). The work group members are composed of more than 120 world renowned scientific researchers […]
TiVo Alert: Tuesday on Dr. Phil, Dr. Phil talks with Kayla, who used to be Michael, and the rift in the family caused by the transition. Check your local listings for details.
After our TWIT column went to press we found these other pieces of useful information laying amidst the scattered press releases, store fliers and sale coupons that we call a desk. We’ve scrapped them together and present them here. Info on Lobby Days, and how to participate in a creative photography project make up this […]
A Gary, Indiana teen sues over her prom dress. Another murder of a transgendered teen. New England T’s plan to march on their own. And GLBT leaders continue to shout for an inclusive vote in Congress. It’s a special, double-issue of TWIT Notes! Why? Because it’s cold outside, and there’s no end in sight to […]
Three more high-profile murders rock the TG community. An Algerian TS won’t get kicked out of Europe. And another county enacts transgendered protection laws. All this and more inside this edition of This Week in Transgenderism!
Miss Lynda Frank, who is 78 herself, is currently conducting a study on what happens to us “gender variant†people when we start getting old. (And we’re all going in that direction, ladies.) “By soliciting a large number of stories from as many people as possible we may be able to figure out what’s in […]
