Recent Transgender Articles
We got yer Monday Edition right here!
Well my little dim sum, it’s another Monday and here, just like always, is the Monday Edition of TGForum. This week we wrap up the adventures of 14th century transman bad boy Catalina de Erauso. You’ll never guess how it ends. Another stabbing? Go ahead, read TG History and find out. This Week in Transgenderism […]
Change is Coming
I’ve been quite the busy little tranny for the last couple of weekends. And I’ve been stepping out of my comfort zone as well. But there is method to my madness. (Or so the mad always seem to claim.)
Monday Edition — hot off your monitor!
Welcome to the November 17, 2008 edition of TGForum! Today we bring you This Week In Transgenderism, as always, featuring news from down the block, up the street and around the world that features transgendered people. This week Ronnie Rho has given herself writer’s cramp, monitor eyeball and Google wrist while compiling a vast array […]
Perpetual Change — Vicki D’Salle
Vicki D’Salle is the type of artist who can expand her musical horizon without going too far afield from her chosen genre’. As a musician, she’s developed a repertoire based around a jazzy piano style, which also includes healthy doses of boogie and more melodic playing. Her set contains everything from standards to original material. […]
Making The Grade
In a recent post at my personal blog, I came up with a list of questions to illustrate the nagging doubts, worries, and fears that plagued me — and most transsexual women, as far as I can tell — prior to beginning my Real Life Experience. They are the sort of the thing my therapist […]
What’s the worst thing you can say to a crossdresser?
Or a transsexual. Or even a drag queen. And it’s definitely not something you’d want to use on an FtM. Chances are, you’ve already said it to a friend. And what’s ironic is that it’s meant in the most complimentary way.
Monday Means New Content! And a new day.
It’s the first post election Monday and Barack Obama has been our President Elect since November 4th. I can feel the change in the air. Or is that just humidity? While some believe that now the Federal government will take away our guns (they’ll never find my Derringer!) and that the national anthem will be […]
Checking in With Osbo’s Bridge Club: Who Needs Therapy?
Speaking from the perspective of a therapy client as well as a practitioner with almost 30 years of experience, my knee jerk response is to say that everybody needs therapy – that an unexamined life is, well, hardly worth living. However, I have come to see over time that not everybody shares my biases (duh!). […]
The Halloween Queen
Halloween night was a special event for our own Kalina Isato — she went out as her favorite female role model, and she has plenty of photo to share from her time spent at the Henry David Halloween Ball. Ever since I was a youth, I was always obsessed with the character of Wonder Woman […]
The Sarah Palin Costume Challenge Results
Back in October I issued the Sarah Palin Halloween Costume Challenge and the response in the weeks since then has been… underwhelming. Perhaps, despite her apparent popularity with certain elements of the populace and the massive amount of media attention she received, people just weren’t that into her. At the Halloween events I attended there […]
Theresa Part 31 by Hebe Dotson
ï¾ ï¾ The Story So Far: The insurance company has offered a settlement for Sandy’s death, enough for Jessica’s education…and Terri’s sexual reassignment surgery! More good luck: Terri has found a new friend — Christine Riordan, a trainee sales associate at the department store. Their friendship deepens as they learn more about each other. Chris is invited […]
Hello TGF! Monday Edition Ready
What a week! It’s been enough to wear a crossdresser down. First off there was Halloween and The Henry David Halloween Ball. It was Henry’s 40th so I had to go. For the first time in my history of attending the Ball I wore a commercially available costume and went as a fairy. (Fairy photo […]
What’s in a Name?
There has long been discussion of what to call our kind. Magnus Hirschfeld described what we do as transvestism which is simply Latin for the practice of crossdressing. That fell out of vogue for the English noun version of the practitioner (i.e. crossdresser) which in turn has been superseded by transgendered. There are of course […]
Transvocalizers by Pamela DeGroff: Calpernia Addams
Calpernia Addams is someone I’ve known since my time in Nashville, a few years back. She was one of the better known local drag entertainers, but I also discovered that she is a musician as well. She played violin in a Celtic/Irish music band called The Secret Commonwealth. Before becoming a professional entertainer, she was […]
TGForum For Monday, October 27, 2008
Hi everyone! Today we bring you, as always, Ronnie Rho’s TWIT Notes. It was a slow TG news week but Ronnie raked up a passel o’ stories for you. Everything from evidence that transexuality is genetic, to what’s happened to the “Leave Britney alone” kid, to the story of Cindy the Vietnamese TS (she’s hot) […]
This Week in Transgenderism 10/27/08
They seem to have found the TS gene! How long before we start hearing about a “cure” for transsexuality? Leo gets pelted by a wet condom at a drag show. DQ’s in NYC have a rummage sale ahead of Halloween. Advice columnists are pelted with questions about transgender relationships. Forced SRS in South Africa? A […]
TGF Rerun — Shopology
Years ago, in an earlier century, I wrote a regular column for TGF as The Diva of Dish. I was looking through some of my old stuff and found this column on bargain shopping. Although some of the stores mentioned are no longer in business and the prices of the bargains may be a bit […]
TG History — Catalina de Erauso Part 2
This month TG History brings you part two of the tale of Catalina de Erauso, a hard living, tough, brawling, FtM from Spain in the 1500s. Not feeling suited for life as a nun Erauso went on the lam and adopted a male life style filled with the kind of bad choices often made by […]
A New Edition of Who’s That Lady?
Back in June we did a feature called Who’s That Lady? which consisted of photos of male actors and celebrities in drag. The fun was in trying to figure out who was behind the makeup and under the wig before you clicked on the photo to read the answer. We’re bringing it back with a […]
More Discombobulated Thoughts on SCC
I realize the convention ended two weeks ago, but I’m still digesting all the observations, thoughts, tangents and whatnot from the biggest TG convention in the US. There are at least two more blogs brewing inside my cranium, simply because there is so much to see and experience at a big convention.
Monday, Monday!
Hi Everyone! Welcome to the Monday Edition of TGForum. We’re one story short today and it’s all my fault. Ronnie Rho had a piece on her Southern Comfort experience and I managed to scramble its electrons and lose it in cyberspace. If Ronnie will forgive me, and if she feels like reconstructing it, I’ll add […]
TWIT Notes! 10/20/08
We’re in! In vogue, anyway, according to one magazine, which also points out, someday soon, we’ll be cliche’. A TS has dropped sexual assault charges. A Cleveland TV reporter says some very rude things. The transgender population in one Texas town may be larger than anyone could have imagined. And phantom pain plagues a post-op. […]
PERPETUAL CHANGE/The Blakk Dollz
There was a time, and not too long ago actually, when if the words “transgender” and “music” were found in the same sentence, it had something to do with heavy metal, goth, or glam rock. In other words, stuff that was heavy and a bit on the dark side. (…sort of like a refreshing pint […]
Ah, Chicago
Last weekend was my friend Angela’s bachelorette party. Despite some misgivings, I attended because 1) I didn’t want to hurt my friend’s feelings, and 2) I had never been invited to one before. Sadly, though, my concerns largely proved well-founded when, halfway through the night, I found myself sitting alone at a table in a […]
Another Monday, Another New Edition of TGF
Hi Everyone! I hope we are all doing well and have not lost all of our money in the erratic stock market? Since I have no savings or investments, being a dedicated “starving artist” it’s not bothering me too much. No doubt they’ll get it all sorted out soon and we can go back to […]
Southern Comfort!
(The following was found scrawled on a cocktail napkin in the lobby of the Crowne Plaza Ravinia, three days after the end of Southern Comfort Convention. It’s author, believed to be Transgender Forum columnist Ronnie Rho, is still missing. We are grateful to the unidentified person who found the napkin and passed it along to […]
