Recent Transgender Articles

It’s TGForum Time, It’s TGForum Time

| Nov 29, 2010 | Reply

And, it’s the Monday Edition of TGForum, which certainly works out well as we’re publishing it on Monday. Today we have slightly slimmer pickin’s than normal. Our stalwart and always on time columnist, Miss Dina Amberle, has had to put the “closed” sign on the diner door this week. Her holiday and work schedule conflicted […]

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TGForum’s Monday Edition is Here

| Nov 22, 2010 | Reply

We begin the TGForum Monday Edition for November 22, 2010 with The Week In Transgenderism, the exhaustively researched and assembled look at all the TG news from the past week, produced by our News Editor Ronnie Rho. Ronnie has chased down all the stories with a hint of TGness, from the article about men who […]

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PERPETUAL CHANGE — Christine Beatty Interview, Part 2

| Nov 22, 2010 | Reply

Last month, we presented the first part of our interview with Christine Beatty. She was one half of the band Glamazon and has since embarked on a career as a journalist and author. We’re fortunate that Ms. Beatty took the time to do this interview in the first place, and it’s because of her thoughtful, […]

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TG History — Pay It Forward, Reed Erickson

| Nov 22, 2010 | Reply

“Make the world a bit better or more beautiful because you have lived in it.”– Edward Bok Who was the most influential transgendered person in history? Now there’s a question that’s certainly subject to lively debate. But a strong case could be made for a man you most likely never even heard of. His name […]

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Monday, November 15, 2010

| Nov 15, 2010 | Reply

Good beginning of the week, everyone! We begin the TGForum Monday Edition with that compelling compilation of news concerning matter TG that we call The Week In Transgenderism. News Editor Ronnie Rho has quartered the Internet and sniffed out every tidbit of TG flavored news. She’s got it all, from the new “femimen” male models […]

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Linda Jensen — Craig’s List Dating: Like Panning for Gold

| Nov 15, 2010 | Reply

Linda uses a 21st Century dating service to find her man in one of the world’s most historic cities. “I’m thinking or writing a series of articles about putting personal ads on Craig’s List. Have any of you ever done that?” “Craig’s List! Nothing but a bunch of phonies!” “”They just play games with you” […]

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Gender Bending Magazine Covers

| Nov 15, 2010 | Reply

Flavorwire has assembled ten gender bending magazine covers. The covers come from magazines from 1895 to the present and include various amounts of gender variance, from total drag to Gary Cooper being made up for a cowboy movie. Nice juxtaposition there. Click on the graphic to open a new window with the cover slide show. […]

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It’s The Monday Edition!

| Nov 8, 2010 | Reply

We’ve got a jam packed TGForum Monday Edition for you on this Monday, November 8, 2010. We begin with the assemblage of news from around the world with even a hint of TG content, assembled by our News Editor Ronnie Rho. We call it The Week In Transgenderism! Ronnie has all the links to stories […]

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TRANSVOCALIZERS — Shawna Virago “Objectified” CD review

| Nov 8, 2010 | Reply

Last month, we interviewed singer/songwriter/activist Shawna Virago in this column. As promised, this month we feature a review of her debut project, Objectified. Produced by Shawna Virago, she also plays guitar, bass, harmonica, and piano, as well as doing all vocals and writing all material. Other musicians include Jeffrey Alphonsus Mooney, drums; Tim Perdue, bass; […]

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Shaquille O’Neal Does Halloween Drag

| Nov 4, 2010 | Reply

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…and now, Live from Provincetown!

| Nov 1, 2010 | Reply

Hebe Dotson Our doyenne of TG fiction, Miss Hebe Dotson, has finally had the time to actually step away from her typewriter and get out of the house in a dress. For her first foray into the world of femme living Hebe took a trip to Fantasia Fair. My friend Jamie and I rolled into […]

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Pictorial: Henri David’s Halloween Ball 2010

| Nov 1, 2010 | Reply

Going above and beyond the call of duty I, Angela Gardner, got dolled up and went out on the night I have to stay in and work on TGForum’s Monday Edition. Why did I do it? Because the biggest Halloween party on the East Coast was happening in Philadelphia and I had to cover it […]

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Slideshow: Halloween at Angela’s Laptop Lounge

| Nov 1, 2010 | Reply

For over five years I’ve been hosting parties in the Philadelphia area that I call Angela’s Laptop Lounge. The parties are TG centric — they’re for us, and others can come but it’s first and foremost a TG party. I got tired of having to go to a gay club to have fun or go […]

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Your TGForum Monday Edition, Miss.

| Oct 25, 2010 | Reply

Good morning gentle readers. This week News Editor Ronnie Rho has taken some time off so it has been I who have cruised the deep waters of the Internet, poked into the shallows and skimmed along the shore’s of that sea of information to find and condense all of the stories into The Week In […]

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Perpetual Change — Christine Beatty

| Oct 25, 2010 | Reply

Christine Beatty is a familiar name to TGForum readers. Before she started writing her TransActive column, she was featured in this column as part of the rock duo Glamazon back in September, 2001. Along with her musical endeavors, she is also an author and poet. She has published one book of poetry entitled Misery Loves […]

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I hate transsexuals…

| Oct 25, 2010 | Reply

I hate transsexuals.  Well, that’s not exactly true.  Granted, I don’t care for the phenomenon where if you get two TSs together, within minutes the topic goes to hormones, what they’re taking, and at what dosage.  No, I don’t hate transsexuals.  I hate how they make me feel.  And when I say that, I mean […]

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TG History — MURDER MOST FOUL!

| Oct 25, 2010 | Reply

PRINCE FELIX YUSSUPOV : Part II: Dead Again: Rasputin “Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped.” — Groucho Marx Rasputin, The Mad Monk, is an almost surreal cult figure in his both time and our own. Revered by some as a psychic and faith healer, rumored by others to be a German spy, this […]

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Your Attention Please! Will The Real Monday Please Stand Up?

| Oct 18, 2010 | Reply

Good day gentle readers. It’s time once again for The TGForum Monday Edition. Did you notice, we do this every week? Today we offer, as always (cause it’s so darn good) The Week In Transgenderism to start your day. This week News Editor Ronnie Rho has gathered all of the stories containing “T” centric themes […]

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The Week in Transgenderism 10/18/10

| Oct 18, 2010 | Reply

Stacey Lee: Murdered History is written by the winners, so does it mean we’re finally winning because our stories are being documented?  A Cinderella-story TS takes on the LPGA so she can get her 18 holes in before the heavy stuff starts coming down.  The DVD release of “Ticked Off Trannies with Knives” sure to […]

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Whatever Happened to Carolyn?

| Oct 18, 2010 | Reply

It has happened to many of us. We make a friend in the transgender community and then suddenly she disappears from our ‘radar screen’. Because of privacy walls we create we have no way of reconnecting or of finding out what happened to our friend. Here is one such story. I was rummaging through some […]

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How To Move Your TGForum Email To Gmail

| Oct 18, 2010 | Reply

You won’t be able to use your TGForum email account after December 15 so it may be time to start thinking about moving to another email provider.  Jamie Roberts contacted us with the procedure for the move to Gmail and we present it to you here. Step 1: Establish a new gmail account on Google’s […]

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It’s The TGForum Monday Edition

| Oct 11, 2010 | Reply

With no fannying about, lollygagging or shilly shallying we jump right out of the box with our most popular, and always exhaustively prepared, The Week In Transgenderism by News Editor Ronnie Rho. Ronnie covers the TG news beat and she’s got stories about a queen in South Africa who died of an overdose while touring […]

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Lexy Tranner — Weekend CD

| Oct 11, 2010 | Reply

It’s that time of year, a day of holy obligation for crossdressers — Halloween — draws near. And how many of us have used a Halloween party as an excuse to crossdress around our friends? How many have thought about how cool it would be to go to a costume party at a friend’s home […]

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TRANSVOCALIZERS — Shawna Virago

| Oct 11, 2010 | Reply

This month, Transvocalizers and TGForum would like to introduce Shawna Virago to our readers. She’s new to us, but is something of a one-woman force of nature in San Francisco’s underground transgender music scene. Her debut project, Objectified, is a collection of 12 original tunes, ranging from folk-punk to acoustic glam. We plan to bring […]

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Good Monday!

| Oct 4, 2010 | Reply

Or, in modern English — instead of Old English — good Monday! Bet you didn’t know that Monday is the moon’s day? Well, if you did keep quiet about it. I’m trying to impress the readers with my arcane knowledge. Happy Monday pagans! In any event, it’s Monday here in 2010 and that means it’s […]

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We Proudly Present, The TGF Monday Edition!

| Sep 27, 2010 | Reply

September 27, 2010: It’s the TGForum Monday Edition! We begin our journey today with the ever popular and often entertaining feature we call The Week In Transgenderism by our News Editor Ronnie Rho. Ronnie has found everything that was reported in the world’s news media last week that featured even a hint of TG content […]

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