Recent Transgender Articles

I Tell Ya It’s Monday! Yer Not Listenin’!

| Aug 30, 2010 | Reply

Good morning my gentle flowers of TG femmedom. It’s that time of the week once again. We present for your edification and enlightenment our highly acclaimed TGForum Monday Edition. We begin with that bastion of the Monday Edition, The Week In Transgenderism, assembled by our trustworthy News Editor Ronnie Rho. From Turkish T girls hooking […]

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Perpetual Change –Too Much Information

| Aug 30, 2010 | Reply

Too Much Information, or just TMI, is a band from the Tucson, Arizona area that has been featured here before, in November 2006 and again in April, 2008. Primarily a cover band, they are always expanding their song list, and beginning to include original material in the live sets. TMI is also a mix of […]

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TG History — The Fountain Pen

| Aug 30, 2010 | Reply

“Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.” Casey Stengel Not to seem nitpicky or anything but often what we learn in History Class is not technically correct, particularly on the matter of inventions. For the sake of convenience we’re taught that so-and-so invented the zipper or the steamboat […]

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How I Lost the Miss Congeniality Contest, Part II

| Aug 30, 2010 | Reply

Friday evening was the chance for the girls to strut their stuff. The Princess Promenade saw JoAnn introduce each one of us as Cliff, the resident admirer, escorted each in turn on a brief walk across the stage in front of the group in front of the group. JoAnn would read from a card that […]

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Wait, did you just say it’s Monday?

| Aug 23, 2010 | Reply

So it is, and just like clockwork we present for your entertainment, edification and enjoyment, another TGForum Monday Edition. Today we start, as we most often do, with The Week In Transgenderism, the handiwork of or News Editor Ronnie Rho. Ronnie is back from vacation and has once again assembled a plethora of news links […]

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RealBreast Product Evaluation: RealBreasts in a bathing suit

| Aug 23, 2010 | Reply

By now most of you have noticed the banner ad for the RealBreast breastforms. If you’ve clicked on the banner and gone to the Real Doll Breast page you have, no doubt, noted the price of $750 a pair. I asked myself can they be worth that much money? To answer that question I acquired […]

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TransActive: The Porno Proposition

| Aug 23, 2010 | Reply

Back in March of this year I wrote a TransActive column entitled The Prostitution Proposition in which I explored the pros and cons of “full contact” sexwork. I covered the risks both obvious — arrest, violence, disease — and not so obvious — the possible psychological and social impact — all of this drawn from […]

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We Humbly Present Our Monday Edition

| Aug 16, 2010 | Reply

Good Monday gentle readers. Today we present, as is our wont, a pleasing potation of transgender entertainment and information. We begin with our distillation of all the trangender news in the entire world, The Week In Transgenderism. This feature is normally developed by the efforts of our most able News Editor Miss Ronnie Rho but, […]

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TRANSVOCALIZERS — Hedda Lettuce

| Aug 16, 2010 | Reply

I first heard about Hedda Lettuce last year when this column featured a review of the Abba covers CD Abbalicious. Hedda was one of nine queens featured on this very rare album, which first came out in 2004. Hedda has become a force in drag in the New York area, has traveled extensively as well, […]

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Great Googly Moogly! It’s Monday!

| Aug 9, 2010 | Reply

“It’s Monday” means that once again we have typed our manicures into shambles, stayed up late, and gotten out another TGForum Monday Edition. This Monday we do the safe, and sane, thing and start off with The Week In Transgenderism by our News Editor Ronnie Rho. Miss Rho has scoured the universe for any story […]

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Theresa – Chapter 53 & 54!

| Aug 9, 2010 | Reply

Our second night of marriage was celebrated in a somewhat glitzy but still comfortable Los Angeles hotel. This was followed by seven glorious days and nights in a marvelous hotel on the beautiful island of Maui. I became fluent in the Hawaiian language there. Well, I learned to say Maui no ka oi (Maui is […]

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TGF Monday Edition is On The Air!

| Aug 2, 2010 | Reply

Not really. It’s on the Internet but when you’re attempting to do an impression of an old time radio announcer introducing a radio program you have to say on the air. On the Internet just doesn’t sound as good. But, that’s where we are as we are every Monday with some scintillating new content to […]

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Perpetual Change — Lipstick Conspiracy

| Aug 2, 2010 | Reply

Back in April, 2004, we introduced San Francisco area band Lipstick Conspiracy to TGForum readers. At that time, the band had one EP release, Don’t Tell A Soul to its credit. In 2006, when we featured them again, they had just come out with their first full length project, A Perfect Alibi. Since then, the […]

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TG History: Climbing Mount Everest — Jan Morris Part IV

| Aug 2, 2010 | Reply

“When you reach the top, keep climbing,” Zen proverb Morris had been able to call upon her friends in the media to keep her upcoming transition a secret. However, once her surgery was done, Jan Morris’ gender change made worldwide news and it’s important to remember how controversial it was at the time. Unless someone […]

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It’s Quite Simple — It’s The TGF Monday Edition!

| Jul 26, 2010 | Reply

Hello my sweltering sweeties. It has been hot, hot, hot here in the northeast USA. Today the humidity has decreased so we are at last able to breath without respirators. And the constant sweat that mats our wigs down on our steaming heads and melts the makeup right off of upper lips has abated, a […]

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How I Lost the Miss Congeniality Contest, Part I

| Jul 26, 2010 | Reply

“My God! Has it been twenty years already?” I exclaimed as my friend Rachel reminded me of the years we attended several of JoAnn Roberts Paradise in the Poconos events. “It’s been twenty years and more. Those were the days, my friend.” In the 1980s and 1990s JoAnn promoted and hosted twice yearly gatherings for […]

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Sam, Play That Old Monday Edition One More Time

| Jul 19, 2010 | Reply

High ho happy readers! It’s time again for our Monday morning staple, The TGForum Monday Edition. Today we begin with the hard work of our stalwart News Editor, Miss Ronnie Rho as she brings us The Week In Transgenderism. Ronnie has searched and searched the tubes of the Interweb for all the stories that relate […]

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Gender Bending in Beijing

| Jul 19, 2010 | Reply

There is a television show produced in China that goes by the name of Sexy Beijing. The show airs on the Internet via a website of the same name. (With a .tv at the end.) Hosted by a nice Jewish girl named Anna Sophie Loewenberg, the show’s open parodies the beginning of Sex and The […]

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TRANSVOCALIZERS — Meghan Chavalier

| Jul 19, 2010 | Reply

When you first encounter Meghan Chavalier on the Internet, a very bold lettered WARNING ADULTS ONLY page comes up right away. A real in-your-face introduction if ever there was one. So, let’s get the obvious out of the way immediately-Meghan Chavalier is a former adult film star with something like 175 films under her-uh, garter […]

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It’s The Monday Edition

| Jul 12, 2010 | Reply

Good Monday TGFers! Once more we bring you a full edition of TG stuff to fill your idle hours. Today we jump into the fray with the ever popular The Week In Transgenderism by our talented News Editor Ronnie Rho. Ronnie has gathered all the stories posted on the Web that feature TG elements and […]

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Dina’s Diner July 11 2010

| Jul 12, 2010 | Reply

In consideration of others seated near you as well as our international broadcast audience, please refrain from blowing your vuvuzelas during this month’s issue of Dina’s Diner. GLEN OR GLENDA, IN OR OUTTA THE OFFICE The syndicated Dear Abby advice column is still appearing in newspapers around the country. On June 6, 2010, Abby (now […]

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Theresa — Chapter 52

| Jul 12, 2010 | Reply

The Story So Far (TGF subscribers can read earlier installments): Terri (Theresa) is a post-op transsexual and aspiring actress in her twenties. Her early teen years are related in Juliet (the first volume of this trilogy) and her late teen years are presented in the second volume, Barbara. She has a boyfriend (Eddie Roberts) and […]

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Happy 5th Of July!

| Jul 5, 2010 | Reply

And it’s Monday again! Time for, of course, the TGForum Monday Edition. And it’s packed full of tasty TG stuff for your entertainment and education. Not to mention edification. First up is the always informative and painstakingly put together The Week In Transgenderism by our sterling News Editor Miss Ronnie Rho. Ronnie’s got links to […]

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PERPETUAL CHANGE — Ryka Aoki de la Cruz

| Jul 5, 2010 | Reply

The diversity that the transgender community keeps presenting never ceases to amaze. I know I’ve said it before in this column (…to the point where it sounds like the proverbial old broken record…), but I’m always intrigued by artists who are hard to categorize. Ryka Aoki de la Cruz is not only a musician, but […]

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From Hannah Montana to…

| Jul 5, 2010 | Reply

The New York Times had an article last week about Miley Cyrus growing up and trying on new identities in her performances. The pop star who was first famous as Billy Ray Cyrus’ daughter and then as Hannah Montana is actively seeking a new persona that’s more mature and sexy. Although some of her onstage […]

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TG History: Climbing Mount Everest — Jan Morris

| Jul 5, 2010 | Reply

“You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take” – Wayne Gretzky Continuing from last month: For James Morris the conquest of Mount Everest was the journalistic triumph of a lifetime and launched his career as one of Britain’s most distinguished foreign correspondents. James went on to cover Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann’s trial […]

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