Recent Transgender Articles
What Your Perfume Says About You
Have you flirted with perfume? Wanted to get the scent of a woman? One of the top feminine arts is the utilization of scents to enhance your femme image. Too many leap into the vast pool of perfumes and come up smelling as if they had actually dived into a pool of perfume. Tasi Zuriack is your guide to finding your scent.
Keystone Conference 2013 in Two Stories
Sophie Lynne attended the 5th Annual Keystone Conference this past weekend in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She has filed a report on the event and on two people she met there.
Thailand Dispatch — What a job!
Thailand’s exotic ladyboys are easily romanticized, as is the profession of prostitution. For some being paid for sexual favors seems like a dream. For the majority of the sex workers in Thailand it’s more of a nightmare. Needing the cash to pay for GRS they have no choice but to be a “hostess.”
Telling Our Story — A Crossdresser does Outreach
At times it is not an easy thing to be a crossdresser anywhere. And right or wrong, my perception from living here, is that the upper Midwest is one of the tougher places for a guy to embrace his feminine side. Faced with that perception I had two options. One would be to try to repress […]
Dr. Sherman Leis Receives Award
(Bala Cynwyd, PA) Dr. Sherman Leis, transgender surgeon of international renown and founder of The Philadelphia Center for Transgender Surgery, was recognized by the Caroline Grace Foundation for his extraordinary efforts on behalf of the transgender community. In remarks given by Caroline Temmermand, Chair of the Caroline Grace Foundation, at an awards ceremony in the […]
The Week In Transgenderism 3/11/13
Eddie Izzard gets an award from atheists. Sean Bean is nominated for his drag role. A Turkish actress is now an actor. A female mixed martial arts fighter used to me a man. More about the notorious Boulton & Park. Photo exhibits featuring TGs. A TG golfer. A new documentary about Divine. And more!
Perpetual Change — Rev. Yolanda CD Review
The Rev. Yolanda Roger Anthony Mapes not only has one of the longest names in the music business, she has a new CD with a long name. It’s called “Rev. Yolanda’s Country Gospel Kirtan Vol. 1: God Is” and our TG music columnist Pamela DeGroff has a review for you. Also some mini-reviews of new music.
Baby Ugly
Don’t ask The Artist D what’s the “in” look is for this season. She doesn’t give a damn. She has her own style and it just comes naturally without any adherence to fashion rules or attention to fashion does and don’ts. How about freakish looking surgical enhancements? She has an opinion on that too. Find out in “Baby Ugly.”
Violence Against Women Act — VAWA is Trans Inclusive
Barbra Casbar Siperstein will be posting columns about the fight for transgender rights across the United States. Today she writes about the importance of the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women act with the inclusion of “gender identity.”
Fetish, Latex, Submission, Service
Fascination with shiny, latex clothing lead Rachel on a path that earned her a place in a community with status and respect. Her latex fetish introduced her to the NYC fetish scene and she’s found a home as RachelX. Read her story of Fetish, Latex, Submission, Service.
Compensation
Our crossdresser’s wife expert Dee Levy thinks that crossdressers who lie to their spouse by not disclosing that they are crossdressers before the nuptials may be exposing themselves to a lawsuit after the truth comes out and the wife throws him out. Why? Because the trauma may require years of expensive therapy.
The Week In Transgenderism 3/4/13
Massachusetts schools are letting TG students use the bathroom and people are up in arms. Students in Mississippi are upset about a TG girl’s “special” rights. A frat held a fundraiser for their FtM brother’s top surgery. Buffalo is bursting with drag theater. What’s it like married to a drag queen? All that and more is in TWIT!
Transsexualism at Sixty: Part II
Dallas Denny wrote a paper 20 years ago. Forty years had passed since Christine Jorgensen’s return to the U.S. after SRS in Denmark, so Dallas called the piece Transsexualism at Forty. Now her paper is 20-years-old and transsexualism is 60. Here’s part II of her update.
The Queen and I — Part IV
Linda is recalling her experiences at the Queen Mary nightclub in Los Angeles. In its day the Queen Mary was the destination of choice for crossdressers. This month Linda recalls meeting a person named Sandi Hart, someone who had been a great influence on Linda’s early development. Videos from “The Queen” also!
All That Glitters is Not Gold
The Web offers a place to explore other roles and connect in ways you can’t in real life.. One TG lady from Thailand made a Web connection and then he said he was coming to meet her in Thailand. He had no idea she wasn’t born a female. Learn what happened when she told him the truth.
5th Annual Texas Transgender Nondiscrimination Summit
Texas Universities face new challenges in regard to pluralism and the respect of diversity in its many forms among faculty, student, staff, and the communities wherein they reside. Oftentimes a strategic approach that utilizes the grassroots power of the members of these institutions in collaboration with leaders at high administrative levels yields the most positive […]
Drag Race Video Highlights from Episode 5
Watch video highlights from Episode 5 of the latest season of RuPaul’s Drag Race.
The Week In Transgenderism 2/25/13
Miss Gay and Miss Transsexual have been crowned in Australia. Irish TGs may be getting some respect from health care providers. London police abused a sick TG in the street. There are controversies about TGs competing on “Drag Race” and in The Imperial Court. All that and more in TWIT!
TransVocalizers — Willam Belli Interview
Our music reporter Pamela DeGroff has snagged an interview with Willam Belli and that’s the main feature of today’s TransVocalizers column. Pam also has music news, video clips and mini-reviews of new music. Check it out!
What’s a Meta For?
Sophie Lynne loves art and literature, and movies with a message. She’s a big fan of Shakespeare. What’s that got to do with being transgendered? Sophie finds that it has everything to do with being transgendered. And today she explains the connection in What’s a Meta For?
First Event 2013
The Co-Chairs of First Event 2013 have sent us a report on how that event unfolded in January 23-27 in Peabody, Massachusetts. With a keynote address from Amanda Simpson, a wedding, fashion show, cabaret and dance party — and more — the convention was a great success.
Out & About — Costa Rica
Our correspondent from Costa Rica, Georgia Tg, has sent us an Out & About report from her trip to the first LGBT night at a local nightspot. Learn how the night went when the Brasilia Bar and Disco opened the doors and the dance floor to the LGBT crowd for the first time.
A Christine-Jane Cartoon 2/13
The legendary Christine-Jane, whose cartoons have appeared in transgender community publications for many years, is now a contributor to TGForum with her funny and insightful cartoons about the crossdressing life.
The Week In Transgenderism 2/18/13
It’s all the TG news in the world! It’s The Week In Transgenderism with stories about Marisa Richmond; Mike & Molly in trouble with GLAAD; the rising star of Laverne Cox; Aged TGs in Jakarta will get a home; Aunt Barbara is the Tupperware queen; Isis King is in fashion. And more!
Are you a Fashion Victim?
We’ve all seen them when we’re out and about. Those women who think that the bigger, shinier, and louder is fashionable. They’re the women from Jersey Shore. They never heard the phrase “less is more.” They’re what those in the know call “fashion victims.” Are you one of them?
