Recent Transgender Articles
Ninja Beauty Secrets — Choosing the Right Size
This month we learn how to develop an eye for finding clothes that will fit you without even trying them on. We also learn that being a woman is a lot more than just thinking like one and looking like one.
Checking in With Osbo’s Bridge Club: Those Pesky Standards of Care
Okay, so please bear with me as this non tech-savvy therapist vents a bit on the fact that I just spent two hours writing only to have my column disappear while I tried to find The Penn State football game on Internet radio. Now I’m going to breathe…and try to start again. I’m assuming that […]
Hey! It’s Monday!
What a jam packed Monday Edition we have today. I thought that it was going to be a bit light since some of my writers were having writer’s block problems but everyone came through and we’ve even got Lexy Tranner. First up is TWIT Notes. It’s got TGs in the news from around the world. […]
Obsessesed by the Crossdressing Obsession — Failures as males?
I’ll admit that wanting to understand the origins of being trans/ambigendered is one of my personal obsessions. I’ll also admit that I have no professional qualifications (e.g. in psychology or psychiatry or neurochemistry, etc.) that allow me to make scientific judgments on this issue. I’m merely applying logic to what I observe and suggesting hypotheses. […]
The October Menu at Dina’s Diner
I was really at loose ends to deliver this edition of the Diner and asked Angela for some extra time. I was even thinking of just throwing in the towel on the whole thing. But then… I had a strange re-awakening after a dream. That sounds like a cliché literary device but it turns out […]
Transvocalizers — The Kinsey Sicks
The Kinsey Sicks are no strangers to TGForum. When the idea for a new column featuring drag entertainers who sing in their own voice was first brought up, The Kinsey Sicks were naturally on the short list of potential features. In fact, they were definitely in the top five when it came to “must have” […]
What’s Going On At TGForum
Some people have asked me what’s happening with the changes I promised for TGForum. Others are asking: “What the Hell’s wrong with the TGF mail?” Well, the two are related.Some of you may now that our mail system is messed up again. Some accounts work just fine while others cannot receive mail. The reason is […]
Monday Means A New Edition
Hey loyal readers, it’s time for the Monday Edition of TGForum. Today’s issue is jam packed! First off we bring you, as always, This Week In Transgenderism. Assembled by News Editor Ronnie Rho TWIT brings you hard hitting coverage of TGs in the news. This week she’s got links to everything from the TG cast […]
TJobBank — An Interview With Jillian Barfield
A few weeks ago, TWIT Notes mentioned a new online job search site for the transgender community. This week, we talk with the woman behind TJobBank: Jillian Barfield.
Transvertising — Transgender Television Ads
A few short years ago if someone produced a television commercial featuring a TG theme or TG characters most of us wouldn’t get to see it since it ran in Italy or England or on a channel we didn’t get. Now, thanks to the innovation of YouTube ads featuring transgender people and themes from all […]
A TGF Sarah Palin Challenge
Sarah Palin. Love her, hate her, not care one way or another about her, you have to love that she made her appearance on the national stage just in time for Halloween. Crossdressers everywhere have been yearning for another easily impersonated female icon and now we’ve got her. It seems inevitable that among many TGs […]
Did Someone Say It’s Monday? There’s A New TGF Edition
Hey ho my TGF chums! Now there’s a word you don’t hear that often. Not since the 1950s editions of the Hardy Boys, at least. But that’s all behind us now and it’s a Monday in the 21st century. I’ll let my household robot Rosie (she’s just a dream at getting all the chores done) […]
What in the World!?!? It’s TWIT Notes!
A huge victory for TG employment rights in Federal Court. Civil rights for some, but not all in one Georgia town. “Transgender panic” in Colorado. Voluntary segregation in Chicago. A village built specifically for the TG in India. Charges of discrimination on a bus in Philly. And no more Cox on Diddy’s show. All around […]
Diane Schroer Talks With TGF
David Schroer was a decorated member of an elite Special Forces unit. He rose through the ranks to become a colonel, trusted enough to brief the Vice-President on anti-terrorism efforts. Schroer was offered a job with the Library of Congress, as an analyist on terrorism. But before starting that position, Schroer told the supervisor about […]
Perpetual Change — by Pamela DeGroff
From time to time, Perpetual Change will take a slight deviation from the regular playlist. This month is just such a time. The first transgender blugrass musician to be featured in the column is this month’s artist, Julie Olivia Buse. Over the years, it seems like every conceivable style of music has been discussed, even […]
“It”
Hypothetical situation: You’re out to eat in a mixed group of people. Some of them know you’re trans, and some of them don’t. Some of them you’re closer to than others, and one is a complete stranger. In the course of conversation, the stranger tells a disparaging story about a transwoman, including using “it†instead […]
Bala Cynwyd — New Center for SRS?
In the past decade or two those seeking gender reassignment surgery most often had to travel to strange, remote, or exotic places for their procedures. Tales of trips to Montreal, Vancouver, Trinidad (Colorado, not the island nation that brought us the steel drum and Calypso) and Thailand abound. Now there is a new exotic sounding […]
BREAKING NEWS!
Diane Schroer, who challenged the Library of Congress in federal court, has won her suit. Details at the Miami Herald. And watch for an interview with Diane in the Monday edition of TGForum!
Monday Edition Now Online
It’s that time again! Monday morning-new-edition-of-TGF-time. First up is the news of the TG world column, TWIT Notes. Today we have short TWIT but Ronnie Rho will be adding some more stories early this week. Then we bring you a new column from a therapist named Dr. Maureen Osborne. Dr. Osborne introduces herself today and […]
Welcome Dr. Maureen Osborne
Checking in with Osbo’s Bridge Club Greetings to members and friends of the transgender community! I am pleased to introduce my monthly column written from the perspective of a therapist specializing in gender identity issues. My plan is to write on topics that are of interest to transgender folks and their loved ones, sharing my […]
Ninja Beauty Secrets: The Versatile Headband
This month we look at the very versatile headband, a hair accessory that is an absolute must for those of you growing out your hair and needing a way of managing it so it doesn’t get in your face. Caveat: Please skip this article if you have male pattern baldness as exhibited on the Hamilton-Norwood […]
Transgender Disrimination Survey Launched
Comprehensive National Survey on Transgender Discrimination Launched by National Center for Transgender Equality and National Gay and Lesbian Task Force WASHINGTON, DC September 11, 2008 — In the wake of one of the most violent years on record of assaults on transgender people, the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) and the National Gay and […]
News Flash — Drag Race Winner Announced
Nina Flowers is the one A press release from the Logo cable channel has announced that Nina Flowers is the winner of the web competition component of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Ms. Flowers will go on to compete with other contestants in the Logo television show to air in the spring. Our Drag Race Blogger Luna […]
And Now, The News
Monday again and all the news is right here on TGForum. We start off today with a word (right below this post) from our Editor/Publisher, Miss JoAnn Roberts concerning her choice in the coming presidential election. Now I wonder who it could be? Right after JoAnn’s political statement Ronnie Rho takes us on a whirlwind […]
TGF Publisher JoAnn Roberts Supports Obama
I believe it is time to take a stance on the upcoming election. My personal support goes to Senator Barack Obama. The two Obama positions cited here are just for starters: Combat Employment Discrimination Obama will work to overturn the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that curtails racial minorities’ and women’s ability to challenge pay discrimination. […]
Transvocalizers — Aderet
By Pamela DeGroff Every so often we bring you a Transvocalizer — a TG performer who sings in their own voice and often writes the music, too. Our music reporter Pamela DeGroff has already covered Jackie Beat and Lady Bunny. This week she brings us a profile on and interview the Israeli pop/dance sensation, TS […]
