Recent Transgender Articles
An Interview with Sabrina “Bria” Symington
Sabrina “Bria” Symington is a transgender artist from Gabriola Island in British Columbia, Canada. She is best known for her ongoing web comic series, Life of Bria, as well as her graphic novels, First Year Out, and its sequel, Coming Out Again. Today she is the subject of Tell Shelley Anne.
A Sabrina Symington Cartoon
Sabrina Symington presents a holiday cartoon featuring Kay and Natalie, the couple who survived She Never Came Out. We see the ladies living their best lives and being happy, not terrorized by malignant beings from another dimension.
Trans in Film & Video 12/6/21
Angela Gardner covers show biz stories that feature transgender actors or themes. Today she looks at Adele’s makeover from Nikkie de Jager, Hunter Schafer on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar, The missing trans character in The Matrix, and Indian award winner and more!
60 Years of Changing Times, Decade by Decade, Part 1
Linda and a friend named Linda get together to talk about how things have changed for the crossdressing population over the last 60 some years. Told mostly by telling the life story of the ‘other Linda’.
The Corset
Pauline Estelle recently indulged in a new corset for more than just slimming her waist. She wanted one that could be a fashion statement. She shares the experience of shopping for it online and gives tips to those interested in getting into corseting fashion.
The Week In Trans 11/29/21
Time for the news! Former transgender mayor of Silverton, Oregon, Stu Rasmussen, has passed away at 73. Children’s Medical Center in Dallas will end its program that provided gender care to kids. Iowa’s law against Medicaid payment for gender confirmation surgery has been declared illegal. The American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics filed a brief urging a court to rule against a ban on trans athletes. There’s an all-transgender hockey team called Team Trans. Dave Chappelle keeps joking around about transgender people. Eddie Redmayne says he wouldn’t take the Lili Elbe role today. Caitlyn Jenner thinks she’s unpopular because Ellen DeGeneres turned the LGBTQ community against her. The new German chancellor vows to let trans people declare their gender. There’s all that and, you guessed it, much more in this edition of TWIT!
Trans Kids: The Mental Health Empire Strikes Back
Recently, there have been indications that some in the Trans Mental Health Empire are pushing back on affirmative treatment for transgender kids as it is now practiced. In this post Dana Bevan reports on several of the things she feels bear out this concern over trans kids treatment.
Being
Kandi Robbins looks back on her early days of dressing up. Back in the time when she was paranoid that she might be found out, when she would use business trips as an excuse to go to other cities, buy women’s clothing, wear it once and then throw it away. Or when she went ventured out of her hotel room dressed as a female but completely male from the neck up. See if any of her stories sound familiar.
The Stained Glass Dream, Chapter 5
After a fun date featuring go karts and Italian food Amy and Jennifer go to Jennifer’s place where they made love for the first time. After their passion Amy suddenly jumped out of bed and locked herself in the bathroom. In the last chapter Jennifer learned that her new lover had sexual trauma related to her father. Chapter 5 moves forward two weeks and we find the women in bed. What happens next? Read on.
Trans Dating Tips
Guest contributor Anastassiia Newlin has tips on how to meet people through the internet who share your interests for dating and more.
The Week In Trans 11/22/21
Did you know a transgender woman is now the Jeopardy! champion? The names of 45 trans people who were killed were read into the Congressional Record. President Biden signed an executive order meant to protect Native Americans, especially two-spirit, from violence. An editorial in The Hill tells lawmakers to stop picking on trans people. The Department of Health and Human Services rolls back the language on religious exemptions to pre-Trump wording. Dr. Sarah Pickle is a leader in providing healthcare to trans individuals. The International Olympic Committee has withdrawn any restrictions it had on transgender and intersex athletes participating in the games. Dwayne Wade tells The Today Show how he felt when his daughter came out. RuPaul takes Drag Race to France. The major French dictionary, Le Robert, has added third-person singular and plural nonbinary pronouns. That’s not all! There’s a lot more news waiting for you in TWIT!
The Occasional Woman, Winter Coats
Time for cold weather in the northern climes! Lorraine Anderson, the proprietor of The Occasional Woman custom clothing service, has some tips on how to stay toasty warm while remaining chic and stylish.
Early TDOR 2021
Sophie Lynne participated in Penn State University’s Transgender Day of Remembrance. While she read the names of trans people who were killed for being trans she began to think about the many trans people she knows. Either in person or online. And she recalls how she felt when she was not living her true life/
TransTainment 11/22/21
Ready for the transgender entertainment news? How about Laverne Cox dancing in her Gucci lingerie? The newest Jeopardy! champion is a trans woman from Oakland. Alaska Thunderf**k 5000 has written a book. Will her full name be on the cover? Pornhub has a trans woman adult actress as a brand ambassador. A management company for transgender actors is going strong, and there’s new music from Trace Lysette and Chanel Jole. Be sure you get all your transgender entertainment needs met.
The Comfort Zone
Christy Lewis writes about finding your comfort zone. While feminine fashions, at least for dress up occasions, aren’t the most physically comfortable attire, in Christy’s case, and that of many other trans people, those clothes put her in her comfort zone.
My life as Savannah, Chapter 17, Gwen’s Wedding
With the strain of helping to prepare for her sister Gwen’s wedding, and all the emotions that were stirred up Savannah began to think about how she would never have a wonderful wedding because she had secrets. No one who knew her as Ken knew about Savannah, and people who knew and accepted her as Savannah were not aware of Ken. At the end of the last chapter she broke down and cried. What will happen in chapter 17?
The Week In Trans 11/15/21
So what’s in the news? A trans woman runs for lieutenant governor of Nevada. Activists can’t wait and put up their own statue of Marsha P. Johnson in New York City. School boards in some districts of Virginia are defying the order to adopt the state’s trans student policy. The Biden administration is rolling back expansion of the religious exemptions to hiring for federal contracts. Violence against trans women continues. 91% LGBTQ people have had their COVID vaccination. Mj (Michaela Jae) Rodriguez is The Advocate’s Person of the Year. Intersex people make up 2% of the population. A trans man is on People magazine’s list of Sexiest Men Alive. The BBC is seeing protests and resignations following their publication of a pro-TERF article. Alaska Thunderf**k5000 has written a book. There’s all that and a bunch more waiting for your eyes in The Week In Trans!
Dina’s Diner 11/15/21
Are you ready for another gourmet experience? Dina’s Diner has specials sure to please. From down home comfort food for the mind, like the existence of indestructible pantyhose, to Sunday lunch with Robert Fripp and his wife, who wears various sexy costumes while Robert plays his guitar, to a recipe for creating fashion forward tops out of tights, and Nigeria’s James Brown, there’s something to please everyone at Dina’s Diner!
Femme Voice Training #17
Sabrina Symington continues her series of voice training videos that give you the vocal tools to sound in a way that matches your look. Whether you crossdress now and then or live fulltime in your preferred gender speaking as a woman can boost your confidence when you interact with members of the general public. Sabrina has a lot to say on the subject of sounding like you look. Today Sabrina shows how to clench and constrict the throat to strengthen the muscles there in order to achieve creaky vocal fry and squeaky high notes.
Represent!
Claire Hall is happy for the attention trans people are getting for stepping up to run for public offices around the country. Transgender representation is important. Especially if it leads to a world where LGBTQ+ people serving in public offices is not something extraordinary but commonplace.
Retro Rerun: Advice From 1996
Today we mine the TGForum Archives for a post from 1996. At that time we had a peer advice column called Dear Rachael. TGF members would send their questions to the editor and she would pass them along to Rachael. In this post from August of ’96 Rachael offers advice to a crossdresser who wants to grow breasts. Then a trans woman who desperately wants to get out of the closet. Followed by a trans woman in the U.K. who wants to begin transition, and then she has an answer for a crossdresser who wants correspond with other girls. Keep in mind that the questions and Rachael’s replies were written in 1996.
TWIT 11/8/21
What’s happening in the news? Danica Roem wins a third term in the Virginia House of Delegates. The Supreme Court refuses to hear an appeal from a hospital that would not give a trans man a hysterectomy. More trans people win elections. The GOP is winning elections by being anti-trans. Michigan will issue ID with an X for gender. More violence against trans women occurs. The Keystone Conference is accepting proposals for seminars and workshops. Transgender cops have problems with the cisgender members of the force. I Am Jazz is back for a 7th season with one big change. Trixie Mattel and Nikki De Jager win American Influencer Awards. Valentina Sampaio has signed as a spokesperson for Armani Beauty. Elliot Page is removed from a Wonder Woman Bingo game. China opens its first gender clinic in Shanghai. There’s all that and more, plus a number of well deserved TWIT Awards waiting for you right now on TGForum!
Give Yourself Permission To Be Both
Like many part time ladies Julie Slowinski balances her responsibilities as a father and bread winner with her need to dress up and be a party girl. Today’s report from Julie is not the usual rundown of what she wore and where she went while wearing it. It’s a look at that balancing act and why she is content being dad and being Julie. And don’t worry, she manages to get some photos into the post.
A Sabrina Symington Cartoon
Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists (TERFs) often claim they don’t hate trans women and are just trying to protect those they see as Real Womyn. But that message often gets overshadowed by another agenda. See if you can spot it in this cartoon from Sabrina Symington.
Being An Admirer: It is Not as Easy as It Looks
Is it an easy life being an admirer? Not according to a friend of Linda’s whose inadvertent wardrobe mistake moved her from one side of the ‘trans dating game’ to the other.
