Recent Transgender Articles
An Interview with Tona Brown
Shelley Anne interviews Tona Brown and learns about her international performance career as a violinist and Mezzo-Soprano. Ms.Brown has performed throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe. She the first transgender woman of color to perform the National Anthem for a sitting President, Barack Obama, and she is an activist on transgender issues.
Linda Magazine, Issue #3
Not to be outdone by Oprah, Linda Jensen has created her own magazine titled Linda snd this is Issue #3. It contains several stories of her crossdressed adventures. The magazine is in PDF Format which can be read in your browser using Google Viewer. When you see Linda on the cover of her magazine look for the “pop out” icon in the upper right corner of her first page. Click to get an enlarged view of the magazine’s pages that is scrollable.
How Well Do I Pass?
Passing. At times the community can become focussed on passing. And most of us go through the obsession with passing phase. Admittedly, in some areas of the U.S. passing is more important than in other areas. Our Contributor Michelle Rogers lives in one of those not-so tolerant areas. In her blog today she takes a look at herself and grades her performance in the passing game.
Twit Awards for the Week 8/14/23
While assembling the stories for the news Cecilia Barzyk comes across silly fools who don’t understand transgender issues and just don’t care to. They bash us and introduce legislation against us. We call these people twits and in this post Cecilia tells you who they are and what they’ve said and done that makes them a twit.
Trans News Now 8/7/23
Trans News Now is on the air! A drag queen has the top spot on the iTunes Christian chart. The American Academy of Pediatrics expresses its continuing support for gender-affirming medicine for minors. The U.K. publishes new guidelines for reporting on sex and gender identity. Quakers in Britain sign a pledge to stand with transgender people. Suzy Eddie Izzard announces her candidacy for Labour MP from Brighton Pavilion. A three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals rules that transgender students in Indiana must be allowed to use the restroom matching their gender identity. Dwayne Wade and Gabrielle Union move out of Florida. A trans student in Missouri sues her former school district, for making her use the boys’ restroom or the school’s one single-person restroom. Florida law forbids the teaching of sexuality and gender theory at the K-12 level. There’s all that and more waiting for you in Trans News Now!
TransTainment 8/7/23
Trans in entertainment and the arts? We call that TransTainment! Today a drag queen has the number 1 album on iTunes Christian chart. Six queens will have shows in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Tony winner Alex Newell advises “be unabashedly yourself.” Former wrestler Gabbi Tuft visits the W.W.E. Smackdown. Another Drag Race alumni comes out as trans. News about trans projects from India, and a bit more can be found in this edition of TransTainment.
Deborah Nicole: My Story, Part 3
Deborah Nicole is a TGForum member who is sharing her life story with you. She starts the tale when she was a young lad in the U.K. and takes you along through the years to her current residence in the USA. Readers of a certain age will find aspects of her story to be familiar and younger folks will gain some understanding of our history.
Twit Awards for the Week 8/7/23
While assembling the stories for the news Cecilia Barzyk comes across silly fools who don’t understand transgender issues and just don’t care to. They bash us and introduce legislation against us. We call these people twits and in this post Cecilia tells you who they are and what they’ve said and done that makes them a twit.
Trans News Now 7/31/23
A drag queen in Key West runs for the Florida House of Representatives. Michigan bans conversion therapy on children. School administrators rebel against Virginia’s trans student guidelines. Two trans patients sue Vanderbilt University Medical Center for giving their records to the state attorney general. The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government held a hearing on “The Dangers and Due Process Violations of ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ for Minors.” No doctors spoke at the hearing. Democrats in the House introduce legislation that would rewrite many laws to make them gender-neutral. Dylan Mulvaney celebrates 500 days of girlhood. Two teachers in Texas go to a drag show and get fired after sharing photos on social media. Over 100 trans men sign up for the Miss Italy pageant when they learn it is only open to “born women.” In a state under conservative control one town declares itself a sanctuary city. Pope Francis told a young transgender person, “”God loves us as we are.” The Associated Press tries to learn just how many transgender people live in the USA. There’s all that and a bit more waiting for your attention in Trans News Now.
Memory?
We are the sum of our experiences and it’s memory that lets us hold on to all the experiences, good and bad, that we have in the course of a lifetime. When young humans get to be old humans the cliche is that memory fails us. That’s true for some while others remain sharp. Then there are some who can tell you what they had to eat on one day while they were 13-years-old, but can’t remember if they took their medications in the here and now. Sophie Lynne has always had a good memory. Today she writes about it after it fails her with a deadline looming.
Summer Survival at Bargain Prices
Lorraine Anderson, the seamstress behind The Occasional Woman custom clothing biz, has tips for surviving and thriving in the summer heat. Stay hydrated! And, avoid the heat of the day by shopping for pretty summer attire in the air conditioned comfort of your local thrift store.
Rerun: Taking Your Chances
Christy Lewis blogs about taking chances. Whether it’s leaving a relationship to go out on your own, trying something in life that you may not be totally suited for, or finally making a move to be who you really are, sometimes staying safe is not a good option and it can pay to take your chances.
The Final Chapter
We published the first chapter of My Life as Savannah on August 31, 2020. Today the story comes to a close with chapter 39, the final chapter of Ashli Kleier’s story about Kenny, his family and how he became Savannah.
Twit Awards for the Week 7/31/23
While assembling the stories for the news Cecilia Barzyk comes across silly fools who don’t understand transgender issues and just don’t care to. They bash us and introduce legislation against us. We call these people twits and in this post Cecilia tells you who they are and what they’ve said and done that makes them a twit.
Trans News Now 7/24/23
What’s happening the news? Former collegiate swimmer and transgender activist Lia Thomas is back in the news scaring conservatives. A U.S. district court judge grants an injunction barring Arizona from forbidding transgender females from women’s sports. Louisiana legislators override the governor’s veto in a special session. The Virginia Department of Education releases its guidance on how schools should deal with transgender students. There were three times as many hate crimes against LGBTQ people this year during Pride month compared to last year. Rachel Levine rattles conservatives by talking about the “wrong puberty.” Paramount studios creates a school for trans actors in Israel. More that 30,000 trans people and allies attend Trans Pride in Brighton. Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is 80 years old and a veteran of the Stonewall riots. She is calling on transgender people to get active, peacefully, in opposition to the anti-trans laws being passed. A young trans man creates a Build A Queer kit in response to Florida’s anti-trans laws. Charles Barkley uses strong language to rebuke the haters on the right. That’s just a sample of Trans News Now!
Dina’s Diner 7/24/23
Welcome to Dina’s Diner. Today’s menu starts with a large portion of being in the closet from family and friends. After that Chef Amberle serves a taste of Asian drag diversity and then plates a tasty portion of small town drag queens working in upstate Pennsylvania. Then she places the next course in the skillet and adds a crossdresser quiz dredged in breadcrumbs. Bon appetit!
Trans in Film and Video 7/24/23
It’s Transgender in Film and Video! Rebecca Romijn says she wouldn’t be cast as a trans character today like she was in Ugly Betty. A trans actress from Columbia is cast after just one audition in the Prime Video movie Los Iniciados. Inky Pinky Ponky is a queer Polynesian love story written and starring transgender actress/director Amanaki Prescott-Faletau. Evangelicals have a problem with Barbie. An Indian actor known for his tough guy roles slips into a sari and glamor makeup to portray a trans woman. It’s chaos on the set of Celebrity Family Feud as Willam Belli pulls a banana out of her wig and shocks host Steve Harvey. The original crew of queens on We’re Here aren’t there anymore. Don’t miss the trans entertainment news!
Mistranslations and Deliberate Inaccuracies
The Christian community in the U.S. reads their bibles in English, and they don’t care about the inaccuracies (many of them deliberate) that exist in those translations. They fiercely believe those translations come from God, so they must be right – no matter that there are many translations, and they often contradict each other. The danger to trans people comes from this evangelical right that believes the inaccurate translations and forget to love their neighbor.
Sue the S.O.B.s!
Michelle Rogers is scared. She lives in a red state that has passed several laws aimed at oppressing the transgender community. She worries that the laws will interfere with her getting hormones, and block her ability to have GRS. Maybe she will be forced to detransition. Michelle is a conservative but the GOP’s attacks on trans people have her worried. She has pondered what could be done and her suggestion is sue the SOBs.
Letter to the Editor: Anti-Trans Laws
A cisgender woman and LGBTQ ally writes to TGForum over her concerns that passage of anti-trans laws means anyone, no matter their political affiliation, sexuality or gender identity, could conceivably become targeted by the right over the slightest hint that they may have dressed up for a part in a play or skit. She tells the story of a Republican legislator in her state who voted against an anti-trans bill who is being attacked because he dressed in comedy drag for a TV commercial for his business.
Twit Awards for the Week 7/24/23
While assembling the stories for the news Cecilia Barzyk comes across silly fools who don’t understand transgender issues and just don’t care to. They bash us and introduce legislation against us. We call these people twits and in this post Cecilia tells you who they are and what they’ve said and done that makes them a twit.
Trans News Now 7/17/23
A woman from The Netherlands will become the first transgender woman to compete for the Miss Universe title. Trans + Pride was held in London, and thousands of people showed up. A lawsuit seeks to have the Texas ban on gender-affirming care for minors overturned. More legal maneuvers continue on both sides. A trans woman is running for a seat in the New York Assembly. The Union Cycliste Internationale announced this week that it will not allow transgender females to compete as females. Non-binary actor Bella Ramsey is nominated for an Emmy award in the Best Actress category. Wait times of five years to get a first appointment with a gender specialist are common in Britain. Portland, Oregon renames a downtown square for a local drag icon. Russia outlaws gender reassignment surgery. While many transgender people are leaving Florida others chose to stay and fight on. That’s just a taste of the news in the feature we call Trans News Now.
Gina Jet Ortiz’s Summer-Makeup Survival Guide
It’s summer and in some areas too much summer! How do you go about your business and be beautiful throughout the hot days and humid nights? Gina Jet Ortiz has a list of tips for keeping your cool, and your glamor, in place on your face.
Linda Jensen Magazine #2
Not to be outdone by Oprah, Linda Jensen has created her own magazine titled Linda snd this is Issue #2. It contains several stories of her crossdressed adventures. The magazine is in PDF Format which can be read in your browser using Google Viewer. When you see Linda on the cover of her magazine look for the “pop out” icon in the upper right corner of her first page. Click to get an enlarged view of the magazine’s pages that is scrollable.
An Interview with Candice Taylor
While enjoying herself at a transgender event Shelley Anne met a lady named Candice Taylor. Ms. Taylor began to tell her story of starting to crossdress privately, advancing to dressing in public and finally coming to the decision to go full time. Shelley was there to relax but her work ethic told her, “Here’s someone to interview for Tell Shelley Anne! This is that interview.
Twit Awards for the Week 7/17/23
While assembling the stories for the news Cecilia Barzyk comes across silly fools who don’t understand transgender issues and just don’t care to. They bash us and introduce legislation against us. We call these people twits and in this post Cecilia tells you who they are and what they’ve said and done that makes them a twit.
