This month, Kalina describes her adventure at the Pennsylvania Department of TRANSportation Photo Center as she gets her new driver’s license photo ID card. Just to show you that I practice what I preach, consider my advice from last month’s column: “I tell the natural look trannies to focus on their eyes more than anything […]
I’d seen it at least a dozen times already, most recently around Halloween, but something put me in the mood to watch Zach Snyder’s remake of Dawn of the Dead again last night. (It could be all those previews for Zach Snyder’s Watchmen I’ve been seeing.) For whatever reason, one scene really stuck out, and […]
A book review by Renee Knipe A few months back, Angela asked if I wanted to do a book review. “Sure, what’s the book,†I asked. “Femmes of Power,†she replied. Four months later, you finally get to see that review.
I’ve been quite the busy little tranny for the last couple of weekends. And I’ve been stepping out of my comfort zone as well. But there is method to my madness. (Or so the mad always seem to claim.)
In a recent post at my personal blog, I came up with a list of questions to illustrate the nagging doubts, worries, and fears that plagued me — and most transsexual women, as far as I can tell — prior to beginning my Real Life Experience. They are the sort of the thing my therapist […]
Or a transsexual. Or even a drag queen. And it’s definitely not something you’d want to use on an FtM. Chances are, you’ve already said it to a friend. And what’s ironic is that it’s meant in the most complimentary way.
There has long been discussion of what to call our kind. Magnus Hirschfeld described what we do as transvestism which is simply Latin for the practice of crossdressing. That fell out of vogue for the English noun version of the practitioner (i.e. crossdresser) which in turn has been superseded by transgendered. There are of course […]
I realize the convention ended two weeks ago, but I’m still digesting all the observations, thoughts, tangents and whatnot from the biggest TG convention in the US. There are at least two more blogs brewing inside my cranium, simply because there is so much to see and experience at a big convention.
(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 […]
I’ll admit that wanting to understand the origins of being trans/ambigendered is one of my personal obsessions. I’ll also admit that I have no professional qualifications (e.g. in psychology or psychiatry or neurochemistry, etc.) that allow me to make scientific judgments on this issue. I’m merely applying logic to what I observe and suggesting hypotheses. […]
I believe it is time to take a stance on the upcoming election. My personal support goes to Senator Barack Obama. The two Obama positions cited here are just for starters: Combat Employment Discrimination Obama will work to overturn the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that curtails racial minorities’ and women’s ability to challenge pay discrimination. […]
It is a well-established tendency that men expect their wives to be physical loyal to them while wives expect emotional fidelity of their husbands. Obviously, the degree of demand imposed by individual wives varies immensely and there are husbands who jealously demand the unwavering attention of their spouse. But on the whole, again as a […]
An item in last week’s TWIT Notes caught my eye. Ronnie had it billed as MSNBC having a video on a “bombshell who happens also to be FtM.” As TWIT Notes blurbs are supposed to do the item piqued my interest. A “bombshell” who’s “FtM”? I had to know more. I visited the link and […]
I guess the Olympics put me in a sporting frame of mind because all of the items have to do with “women in sport.†Which is not far down the list after “women in bed,†“women in low-cut blouses,†and “women in garter belts, stockings and high heels.â€
A friend posted some pictures she took at our last outing. And I was nearly shattered by them. I know I’m not the prettiest t-girl on the planet, but these were worse than I could have possibly imagined. (Warning: one of the photos is included. Don’t read on if you have a weak stomach.)
Over the weekend, I wrote a piece for a different website, before realizing I didn’t want to share my writing with them. The nominal topic was something other than trans, but truth is, I was using it as an excuse to talk community politics. So I offer it up here instead, where it might be […]
I know this is popular blog topic, but it is — I think — an important question to ask. When did you first realize that you wanted to dress in feminine clothing? Or when did you first realize that you’d really, really like to know what it would have been like to have been born […]
You read about the kerfluffle over the word “tranny” in TWIT Notes a couple of weeks ago. And it’s high time we had a raucous debate, complete with name-calling, charges, counter-charges, hair-pulling, lawsuits and online flaming. Because the question has largely gone unanswered: Is that word offensive?
Hi everyone! It’s nice to be back from hiatus. Life is strange and I have a few stories to share, but I think I’ll start with why my name probably seems unfamiliar. And it has nothing to do with whether you’ve read my earlier essays or not. You’ve probably grokked by now, this is going […]
Believe it or not, I don’t go out to parties every weekend. Sometimes, I stay home. And generally, when I stay home, I don’t dress up. It’s a lot of work to get pretty, and my thought is: if I’m going to go through all that effort, I want to show it off. If a […]
The Sunday before Cincinnati’s Pride festival sees a sort of warm-up to the main event. There’s a much smaller street fair dubbed the “Drag Races”. And it’s much like it sounds. Gay men must compete in a foot race en femme. There’s also an event for lesbians as well: Dykes on Trikes. In that competition, […]
June is the time of year for GLBT Pride Day rallies and as regularly as the heat and humidity return so do cries for better “T†representation at these—and other public—events. The logic is that we’ll never be accepted by the public if we just hide ourselves; we need to raise the visibility of the […]
Esquire magazine had an article last month about all the skills every man should master. I’m sure Cosmo has some equivelant, and since TGForum is the authority for the trans world, it seemed only fitting that we come up with a list.
Many CDs will work very hard on achieving “The Look” that they want to represent their femme selves. They will buy expensive dresses, invest in the necessary foundation garments to make their figures “just right” (some will even go so far as to exercise!) and they will do or spend what ever they have to […]
It seems that in everything there is a balance. For every point, there is a counterpoint: every thesis has an antithesis; for every yin there is a yang. This holds true with the human condition as well, including that of gender. There are gays and lesbians. There are M2F and F2M transsexuals. There are transgendered […]
My wife and I separated recently, with the divorce to be finalized early next month. And one might accuse me of moving too quickly, but I’m already thinking of dating. Okay, I’m not exactly thinking of finding someone to date, but I am thinking about some of the technical aspects of dating.
