Recent Transgender Articles
Linda Jensen in The Shark Tank
Linda Jensen’s surrogate shopper idea has really taken off. Turns out the story we ran on it last month sparked enough interest for Linda to approach investors. Not just any investors — the millionaires from Shark Tank.
And Now, New Content
Welcome to TGForum for the week of August 15, 2011. For new people who don’t know how we do it, every Monday we bring you new content from our writing staff. While you can certainly navigate around and read any of the posts from any point in time it’s Monday that brings the freshest stuff. […]
Cuban Gay Marriage?
Wedding bells where ringing in Cuba this past weekend on Fidel Castro’s 85th birthday. A Cuban transsexual and her gay activist boyfriend got married in what the media are calling a “gay wedding.” Really? Seems like a man woman wedding to us. View the video coverage!
TransVocalizers — CD Review: “Introducing Foxjazell”
TransVocalizers focuses on Foxxjazell’s debut album, “Introducing Foxxjazell” as Pamela DeGroff brings us a review. Pamela also has info on TVocalists Beth Isbell, Coco Peru, Chaos and Lace and more. Plus some tips for hot new dance tracks.
Take Better Pictures!
Crossdressers are often fascinated by photos of their femme selves. In the days of film cameras we would take rolls and rolls of shots. Remember those hotels curtains? That hallway door? Now it’s a digital world and you can really look your best with some hints from Ronnie Rho.
Good Morning Campers!
It’s time for new content on your old buddy TGForum! We begin with The Week In Transgenderism. I’ve dug up stories about the transgender actress whose career is taking off after her debut film gets many good reviews. There’s links to news on Hedda Lettuce’s diet, slut walks gaining momentum, a TG couples “impossible” pregnancy, […]
Drag Legends Perform In Vegas
The world famous female impersonation venue Finocchio’s in San Francisco closed in 1999. Now two of the performers who helped make it the premier spot for high quality drag performance, Lavern Cummings and David de Alba, are appearing live in Las Vegas.
Our Content Du Jour
Hi loyal readers! Today is the first of August already and we’re sweltering here on the east coast. Not as bad as last week but still way too warm for pantyhose and a hot wig. Of course that won’t stop me. That’s why they make cars with air conditioning. Today we begin with our long […]
A Frock Made of Corrugated Iron
Curves. Women have them and female minded TGs want them. The most obvious solution? A corset. But there’s more to corsets than you might think, and that’s where our fashion blogger The Artist D comes in. This month she shares her vast store of corset knowledge. Breath in while she pulls those laces tight.
Perpetual Change — Catrina Daimon Lee
This month Pamela DeGroff introduces us to a transgendered musician in Singapore who has never had a paying gig. Catrina Daimon Lee is a multi instrumentalist who mixes jazz, rock, minimalism and other musical influences to create an exciting sound that is about as far from mainstream pop as one can get.
It’s TGForum Time
Once again it’s a new content addition to TGForum. Today we bring you The Week In Transgenderism featuring the stories about transgender people that you want and need. The stories! Not the TGs. This week we learn that Nikki Araguz, who should probably just have a cot at the courthouse, is back again appealing the […]
Xenophobia: “Us” and “Them”
Where ever you have humans there’s a tendency for those humans to ignore the common things they share and instead focus on the minor differences. Dallas Denny wrote an essay on the subject back in 1994 and it was never published. It’s still relevant today.
Surrogate Shopper Available For Hire
Linda takes a look at a new career possibility using the principle that she should find something she enjoys doing and get herself paid for doing it.
TSA Body Imaging Still Puts TGs at Risk
The TSA has changed their body imaging software. They say it’s less intrusive. While it may be less intrusive is it still a danger to transgender people? The National Center for Transgender Equality weighs in on the issue.
My We Offer You Fresh Content?
Good day everyone! Here on the east coast another heat wave has moved in. The only thing to do is slip into something skimpy and romp in the sprinkler on your lawn, or, if that will get you in trouble with the neighbors, turn up the air conditioning (which oddly results in a colder house […]
TVocalizers — La La McCallan/Tia Anna
TVocalizers covers transgender people who sing. From the finest sopranos to the roughest baritones as long as they are TG vocalists they’re covered here. This week Pamela DeGroff features Lala McCallan, a flawless performer from Italy and Miss Tia Anna, a.k.a. Mary Harness from the U.K.
Second Class?
Sophie Lynne has learned that the next big struggle will be for transgender rights. And she’s learned that until we win the struggle we’re viewed as second class citizens. Inspired by the revelation she has posted her first class opinions on second class status and what it means for TGs.
Adam Sandler — Insulting to TGs?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So, it seems, is intent. A blogger at Queerty.com has made it known that in his opinion the forthcoming Adam Sandler film Jack and Jill is insulting to TGs since Sandler plays the sister role in drag. Watch the trailer for the film and see what you think.
Prepare to download content…
It’s another Monday and as we do every Monday, rain or shine, holiday or normal day, we bring you new content on TGForum. We start with our weekly distillation of all the TG news from all over the world, a little thing we call The Week In Transgenderism. In this TWIT we bring you stories […]
Merry Independence Day!
It was only a few hundred years ago that we cast off the yoke of oppression and declared our independence from the British Empire. Well, when I say “we” I don’t mean me personally. My ancestors were still hanging around The Old Country back then (and not the Old Country Buffet, either). But “we” the […]
Thomas Jefferson’s Wig
For many TGs it’s hair here, there and everywhere. And while we worry that someone might see an unsightly patch of fur on a shoulder or back sometimes we don’t worry enough about the hair on our heads. In this post The Artist D gives you her philosophy of wigs!
Perpetual Change — Diana Stone
In this Perpetual Change Pamela DeGroff interviews a hard working British TG musician named Diana Stone. Ms. Stone performs with two bands and works on solo recorded music. She’s the featured performer in this month’s Perpetual Change. Other music news, too!
The New Girl, Chapter 3
In the last chapter of The New Girl people were longing for something new, a different experience, and in one case a different gender. In this chapter The Spirit decides to give people what they want, and may what they deserve. It’s Chapter 3 of The New Girl.
Congratulations to New York on it’s Gay Nuptials
Now the LGBT citizens of New York state can get married! It’s a big breakthrough for LGB people but what’s it do for us Ts? I’m guessing that it will have benefits that I just can’t think of at the moment. After wrestling the TGF new content into shape all night my brain can only […]
Disaster, Deceit, and Betrayal at the International Foundation for Gender Education
Since they no longer have a convention, publish a magazine or have a bookstore is IFGE, The International Foundation for Gender Education, still fulfilling its mission? Dallas Denny says no, it isn’t. And things may be worse than that.
