Recent Transgender Articles

Miss Vera’s Scruffy Cinderfella’s Premiere Thursday

| Feb 23, 2009 | Reply

Miss Veronica Vera, the headmistress of Miss Vera’s Finishing School For Boys Who Want To Be Girls, tells TGF that Pritch and Panch Do…The Cinderfella Experience has been accepted for screening at Cinekink Festival 2009. Screening date is Thursday, February 26, 9 p.m. at Anthology Film Archives as part of the Lipstick and Crinolines gender […]

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Is The Monday Edition Fresh? Who wants ta know?

| Feb 16, 2009 | Reply

Hi TGF fans! It’s Monday morning again and here we are, like clockwork, with another Monday Morning Edition. This week we’ve got a report from Pamela DeGroff on Kim Petras’ recent SRS. Then Pamela gives us a Perpetual Change on musician/composer Olivia Margaret. Very classical but in a modern, computerized sense. Michelle Moore is here […]

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TG History — TG Legends: NAZIS!

| Feb 16, 2009 | Reply

“A discovery has lately been made on this continent that will astonish the whole world. Our great and excellent General Washington is actually discovered to be of the female sex.” – London Daily Advertiser, January 25, 1783 DID THE NAZIS CONDUCT SEX CHANGE OPERATIONS? “Later on Janice Raymond says breathlessly, ‘We know that at least […]

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Perpetual Change — Olivia Margaret

| Feb 16, 2009 | Reply

This month’s installment of Perpetual Change introduces Olivia Margaret, who is not only a classically trained musician and composer, but an accomplished technician as well. “Being a composer is both an avocation and an extension of my primary career,” she said. “I have been a designer, builder, restorer, and voicer of pipe organs, and lately […]

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Sweet 16 Kim Petras Has SRS

| Feb 16, 2009 | Reply

“I was asked if I feel like a woman now, but the truth is I have always I was asked if I feel like a woman now, but the truth is I have always felt like a woman — I just ended up in the wrong body. “I can enjoy swimming, and bikinis, go in […]

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Here it comes…The Monday Edition

| Feb 9, 2009 | Reply

Hi everyone! It’s another Monday and while fires have raged in Australia here in the USA Congress has been using giant blow ups of Bill Murray in the hit movie Groundhog Day (talk about wasting taxpayer money) to oppose the stimulus spending bill and President Obama is set to go on television tonight, plus, RuPaul’s […]

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This Week in Transgenderism 2/9/09

| Feb 9, 2009 | Reply

Ronnie Rho has all the news from all over creation that features TGs in anyway. From “mantyhose” to drag queen Don Mclean, you’ll find it all in TWIT Notes.

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Transvolcalizers/Kim Petras

| Feb 9, 2009 | Reply

This month Transvocalizers brings you a profile of a young singer who is Germany’s answer to Miley Cyrus, and she happens to also be the “world’s youngest transsexual.” This month’s Transvocalizer — Kim Petras.

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Diana and Her Mom by Linda Jensen

| Feb 9, 2009 | Reply

Linda Jensen shares the story of one of her online pals whose mother helped her to have feminine experiences during her teen years.

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The Monday Morning Lineup

| Feb 2, 2009 | Reply

Happy Monday Steelers fans! It’s time for the TGF Monday Edition. I hope everyone has gotten all of their old mail and contacts off of the old TGF mail server. If you haven’t — too late. It’s gone, just like the Cardinals hopes for a Super Bowl win. In this Monday’s TGF we bring you, […]

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Dr. Osbo — Who Needs Therapy Part 2: Tips for finding a therapist

| Feb 2, 2009 | Reply

For those of you who keep track of such things, I did say a couple months ago that I would talk about the DSM-IV diagnosis controversy. I have decided to postpone that conversation for awhile, as there are some upcoming forums I will be attending that will help me speak about this topic in a […]

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Ninja Beauty Secrets — Stochastic Musings

| Feb 2, 2009 | Reply

This month we’ll look at some random thoughts that fill my head from time to time. An ode to my old scholar geek days, the title is nothing more than an impressive way of saying “random thoughts.” We’ll tackle a few tgirl issues and learn some cool tips, too.

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Theresa Chapter 34 by Hebe Dotson

| Feb 2, 2009 | Reply

The Story So Far (TGF subscribers can read earlier installments): Terri’s path to sexual reassignment surgery appears to be open. More good luck: she’s found a new friend – Christine Riordan, a trainee sales associate at the department store. Terri and Chris go to a party in the Village. One of the hosts is a […]

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Old Mail System Coming Down Thursday

| Jan 27, 2009 | Reply

If you have not fininshed exporting your mail and contacts from the old TGF mail server, now is the time to do it. We will be be shutting down the old server at 2:00 PM Eastern time this Thursday, the 29th. The link to the old serve is http://oldwebmail.tgforum.com/. Regards JoAnn Roberts Publisher

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Monday! TGF right here for ya!

| Jan 26, 2009 | Reply

Good day everyone. It’s Monday in America and time for the TGForum Monday Edition. First off we bring you This Week In Transgenderism. Miss Ronnie Rho has scoured the Web and brings us news from around the world that features transgendered people. Don’t miss your TWIT! Next on the agenda we bring you the artistic […]

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DVD Review: Catalina — CD Superhero

| Jan 26, 2009 | Reply

Several months ago we learned of a movie called Catalina — A New Kind of Superhero and promptly reported the news to TGF readers. At that time the film’s producer was looking for distribution but you could watch the trailer on the film’s website. Now we can report that the film is available on DVD. […]

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Monday, Monday, ba da ba da da da… it’s TGF!

| Jan 19, 2009 | Reply

Good morning my little muffins! Or whatever time of day and baked item you want. The time is always right for the Monday Morning Edition of TGF! We lead off with Ronnie Rho’s TWIT Notes. This week we learn that ENDA may have a leg to stand on with the new administration.  A TS model […]

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TG History — TG Legends Part 1: J. Edgar Hoover, CD?

| Jan 19, 2009 | Reply

Our TG historian Michelle Moore digs into the legends that revolve around the TG community. One of them is the classic, J. Edgar Hoover was a crossdresser. (For you youngsters, Hoover was the head of the FBI from the beginning of that bureau until 1972. Was he a CD? TG History will give you his dossier.

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PERPETUAL CHANGE — Radio, the Internet and The TG Community

| Jan 19, 2009 | Reply

It used to just be in the air – radio. Now it’s on the World Wide Web and you can listen to everything, even TG programming. Pamela DeGroff brings us a two part report on Internet radio and some news about Israeli TS singer Aderet in this edition of Perpetual Change.

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Recession? Bring on the bargains!

| Jan 19, 2009 | Reply

It may be a recession but there’s no need to get depressed. The bargains on lady’s attire will only get better as the stores get more desperate. And when the going out of business sales begin look for the pickin’s to be great.

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New Mail & Old Mail Contacts

| Jan 15, 2009 | Reply

Dear Subscribers, We have added a utility to help you transfer your Contact lists from the Old Mail system to the New Mail system. If you login to your old mail at http://oldwebmail.tgforum.com/ then go to the Address Book tab you will see at the bottom of the page the ability to export your address […]

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Another Monday With TGF

| Jan 12, 2009 | Reply

Hi All! The launch of the new mail system has not been without a few bugs. We’re spraying now and hope to get them exterminated in short order. If you have problems let us know. Our goal is to make it all run smoothly. I did find that I had to send my TGF mail […]

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Tranvocalizers — Diane Michelle

| Jan 12, 2009 | Reply

So far in this new column, we have featured some well known drag entertainers. The term “drag queen” isn’t applicable to most of them, although a few wear it with pride. What we are focusing on are transgender vocalists/entertainers whose main tool of presentation is through singing. This month we feature TG vocalist Diane Michelle. […]

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Breakfast on Pluto — Wild Cards, Busted Flush

| Jan 12, 2009 | Reply

Our science fiction commentator, Misty Carpenter, has been sidelined for most of the year. We’d like to say she is on an extended trip off world to renew trade negotiations with the Grreeb from the dark sector, but, it’s been health problems that have really slowed her up. We wish her all the best and […]

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Dawn of the Dead: Transphobic?

| Jan 12, 2009 | Reply

I’d seen it at least a dozen times already, most recently around Halloween, but something put me in the mood to watch Zach Snyder’s remake of Dawn of the Dead again last night. (It could be all those previews for Zach Snyder’s Watchmen I’ve been seeing.) For whatever reason, one scene really stuck out, and […]

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Good Morning TGFers!

| Jan 5, 2009 | Reply

All this holiday stuff is finally over for a bit and we can get back down to important stuff. Stuff like reading the brand new, hot off the word processor and html editing unit, TGForum Monday Edition. First up today is This Week In Transgenderism, artfully fashioned by the one and only Ronnie Rho. From […]

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