Recent Transgender Articles
This Week In Transgenderism 5/11/09
Remembering Virginia Prince. Trying to forget about Allen Andrade. Trans-folk find competition at job fairs. A porn star/activist talks with a man who helped make trans-porn readily available. One FtM wins the right to surgery, while another changes her mind and goes after the therapist. A familiar trans-band hits the stage in Minneapolis. Are they […]
Finocchio’s — 10 Years Gone
The world renowned female impersonation club Finocchio’s was a San Francisco landmark for decades. Whenever glamorus drag with high production values was mentioned Finocchio’s was the first place that came to mind. It was possibly the only nightclub dedicated full time to female impersonation and in its heyday Finocchio’s was the place to see and […]
Memories…
Ronnie is probably the only person you know who can drive with one eye firmly on the road ahead, and the other locked on the rear-view mirror. And it’s not because she has Marty Feldman eyes either. It’s a metaphor. (What’s a metaphor? You keep your cows in one, silly.) A quick jaunt down memory […]
Trans pioneer Virginia Prince dies
Virginia Prince, trans pioneer who lead the way in the 1960s has passed away. We present an obiturary written by Lynda Frank. On Saturday May 2nd, 2009 Virginia Prince passed away at the age of 97. For many years the primo leader of the transgender community, her passing is a loss for us all. The […]
Here’s Your Monday TG Bailout
Just as the government bails out Wall Street firms and failing banks, TGForum is here to bail you out … of the doldrums, with all the TG related content you can read. And we do it every Monday. This week we start off our Monday Edition with This Week In Transgenderism. Silly really when most […]
This Week in Transgenderism 5/04/09
Police in the U.K. getting first hand experience working with transgendered individuals. A brutal double murder in the Caribbean. The case against keeping job discrimination legal. Cash money for the TS who sued the Library of Congress, and won. A hospital director puts roadblocks around SRS at his facility. A review of the first 100 […]
PERPETUAL CHANGE — Ten Years of Tunes
With the posting of this installment of Perpetual Change, the column is officially ten years old. And quite honestly, that’s a sentence I never thought I’d write. I never believed I could do this for ten years. Long time readers of Perpetual Change (both of you) will probably note some of the changes that have […]
A Day at Transgender 2009 — The Liberty Conference
Our newest TGF contributor Gina Vizavi heard about the Liberty Conference in Philadelphia and decided that she should go to check it out. Since it was her first time at a big event we asked her to do a report on the Conference. Here are her impressions from A Day at Transgender 2009 — The […]
Theresa — Chapter 37 by Hebe Dotson
The Story So Far (TGF subscribers can read earlier installments): Eddie has taken an unanticipated business trip to New York City, and Terri invites him to enjoy the fine spring Saturday with her and Jessie at the Bronx Zoo. They are having a wonderful time until Mr. & Mrs. Norris arrive on the scene. Mrs. […]
A Day at Transgender 2009 — The Liberty Conference
Our newest TGF contributor Gina Vizavi heard about the Liberty Conference in Philadelphia and decided that she should go to check it out. Since it was her first time at a big event we asked her to do a report on the Conference. Here are her impressions from A Day at Transgender 2009 — The […]
Submitted for your approval — TGF Monday Edition
Good morning TGFers! Those of you who had no problem viewing the Lexy toon last Monday may not be aware of the kerfuffle that’s taken place in the comment box this week. For some people the last panel of the toon, the one with the punch line, was cut off. JoAnn thought that it was […]
Lexy Toon Anti Climax
Since so many people complained about not being able to see the last panel of the Lexy Tranner cartoon last week, and our efforts to make it visible came to naught, we’re running it again. Just click on the Lexy Toon thumbnail to see the whole strip. (If this doesn’t work…)
Stochastic Musings — Fitting rooms, hats, and inspiration
Stochastic Musings Kalina talks about getting “ma’am”‘ed, wigs and hats, inspirational messages, rays of sunshine, and using women’s fitting rooms. There are plenty of lessons to be learned here.
The Transgender Spectrum: Where do I fit? Part two
In last month’s column, I presented the first part of a workshop I gave at the Keystone Conference on the transgender spectum. This month’s column completes my talk with a few more therapy vignettes of people along the transgender spectrum. In closing, I return to Julia Serano’s book, Whipping Girl wherein she gives a compelling […]
All Dressed Up And No Place to Go?
When I was a teenage boy my friends and I used to say that to each other quite a bit. If one of us would show up with a new outfit or even just a clean shirt we would chide him, “Look at him. All dressed up and no place to go!” That phrase stuck […]
It’s Monday! In this hemisphere at least.
Good morning campers! What a lovely day. Well it’s raining outside TGF World Headquarters in suburban Philadelphia but we’ve got our warm, Juicy velour track suits and a pot of hot coffee so we’re snug inside while the rain falls. Today we start the Monday Edition with the handiwork of or News Editor Miss Ronnie […]
Lexy Tranner — Weekend CD
As the gender map changes and many with male biology adopt feminine lifestyles confusion abounds among not just the straight world but here in genderland as well. How do we continue to put people in categories, as we’re programmed to do, when the differences between a trans lady and born lady become less and less? […]
Transvocalizers — Miss Guy
“I don’t like being referred to as ‘she’ necessarily,” said Miss Guy, well known DJ and former lead vocalist for the band Toilet Boys. “I’m happy being a pretty boy. I get mistaken for a girl sometimes. More on the street during the day with no make-up on than I do when I’m painted and […]
The 2009 Easter/Spring Pictorial
It’s here! The Easter Bunny has visited and left us the 2009 Easter/Spring Pictorial. But somewhere along his hoppity hop route he must have had a few photos fall out of his basket. Only three lovely ladies submitted their photos for the Pictorial, and they are Andee, Candy and Ronnie. Fortunately even though only three […]
Theresa, Chapter 36 by Hebe Dotson
The Story So Far (TGF subscribers can read earlier installments): Terri learns that her friend Chris had already figured out on her own that Terri had once been Alan and wasn’t fazed in the least by having her theory verified. Two days later, Brad, the man she met at a party hosted by a former […]
TG History — TG Myths: IS JAMIE LEE CURTIS INTERSEXED?
“No. Are you?” — Reputedly Marlene Dietrich’s response to a reporter asking if she was really a man. For those of you not immediately familiar with this, go ahead and Google it. We’ll wait. Welcome back. My, but this is one persistent little rumor, so let’s get straight to the facts. First we’ll examine the […]
L. O. L. A.
Last week our Miss Isato wrote about the need for T girls to mature and stop hanging around in the same old venues, wearing the same hair, makeup and clothes and telling the same old stories. Do we really do that? Some of us do. Many of us hang in the same old places because […]
Monday’s just another day — with new stuff on TGF!
Hello, hello loyal readers. It’s time for another edition of Transgender Forum! Today we start off with the fruits of News Editor Ronnie Rho’s labors — This Week In Transgenderism. She’s got a wholesome variety of stories featuring TGs, from the shocking allegations that TGs in India are kidnapping boys and making them work the […]
Transgender Heaven by Cerise Richards
Nestled in the Delaware River Valley, there are two idyllic towns, which have an unusual history of tolerance and diversity. On La Rive Gauche (The Left Bank) there is New Hope, PA, which for the past hundred years has attracted artists to paint its magical scenery. On La Rive Droite, (The Right Bank) there is […]
Perpetual Change
This month, Perpetual Change features two different aspects of the transgender music community. Philadelphia will hosting the first of its kind GLBT Arts Festival in May; and in Chicago, trans musician Jami Bantry has turned open-mic nights into a great opportunity for up-and-coming artists of all kinds.
