Barbra Casbar Siperstein will be posting columns about the fight for transgender rights across the United States. Today she writes about the importance of the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women act with the inclusion of “gender identity.”
Fascination with shiny, latex clothing lead Rachel on a path that earned her a place in a community with status and respect. Her latex fetish introduced her to the NYC fetish scene and she’s found a home as RachelX. Read her story of Fetish, Latex, Submission, Service.
Our crossdresser’s wife expert Dee Levy thinks that crossdressers who lie to their spouse by not disclosing that they are crossdressers before the nuptials may be exposing themselves to a lawsuit after the truth comes out and the wife throws him out. Why? Because the trauma may require years of expensive therapy.
Massachusetts schools are letting TG students use the bathroom and people are up in arms. Students in Mississippi are upset about a TG girl’s “special” rights. A frat held a fundraiser for their FtM brother’s top surgery. Buffalo is bursting with drag theater. What’s it like married to a drag queen? All that and more is in TWIT!
Dallas Denny wrote a paper 20 years ago. Forty years had passed since Christine Jorgensen’s return to the U.S. after SRS in Denmark, so Dallas called the piece Transsexualism at Forty. Now her paper is 20-years-old and transsexualism is 60. Here’s part II of her update.
Linda is recalling her experiences at the Queen Mary nightclub in Los Angeles. In its day the Queen Mary was the destination of choice for crossdressers. This month Linda recalls meeting a person named Sandi Hart, someone who had been a great influence on Linda’s early development. Videos from “The Queen” also!
The Web offers a place to explore other roles and connect in ways you can’t in real life.. One TG lady from Thailand made a Web connection and then he said he was coming to meet her in Thailand. He had no idea she wasn’t born a female. Learn what happened when she told him the truth.
Miss Gay and Miss Transsexual have been crowned in Australia. Irish TGs may be getting some respect from health care providers. London police abused a sick TG in the street. There are controversies about TGs competing on “Drag Race” and in The Imperial Court. All that and more in TWIT!
Our music reporter Pamela DeGroff has snagged an interview with Willam Belli and that’s the main feature of today’s TransVocalizers column. Pam also has music news, video clips and mini-reviews of new music. Check it out!
Sophie Lynne loves art and literature, and movies with a message. She’s a big fan of Shakespeare. What’s that got to do with being transgendered? Sophie finds that it has everything to do with being transgendered. And today she explains the connection in What’s a Meta For?
The Co-Chairs of First Event 2013 have sent us a report on how that event unfolded in January 23-27 in Peabody, Massachusetts. With a keynote address from Amanda Simpson, a wedding, fashion show, cabaret and dance party — and more — the convention was a great success.
Our correspondent from Costa Rica, Georgia Tg, has sent us an Out & About report from her trip to the first LGBT night at a local nightspot. Learn how the night went when the Brasilia Bar and Disco opened the doors and the dance floor to the LGBT crowd for the first time.
The legendary Christine-Jane, whose cartoons have appeared in transgender community publications for many years, is now a contributor to TGForum with her funny and insightful cartoons about the crossdressing life.
It’s all the TG news in the world! It’s The Week In Transgenderism with stories about Marisa Richmond; Mike & Molly in trouble with GLAAD; the rising star of Laverne Cox; Aged TGs in Jakarta will get a home; Aunt Barbara is the Tupperware queen; Isis King is in fashion. And more!
We’ve all seen them when we’re out and about. Those women who think that the bigger, shinier, and louder is fashionable. They’re the women from Jersey Shore. They never heard the phrase “less is more.” They’re what those in the know call “fashion victims.” Are you one of them?
Today our correspondent in Thailand discusses how many transgendered people are so dominated by their gender issues that they rush to start hormones or get surgery when they haven’t taken time to make a rational plan on how to proceed. Rational? What’s that?
We welcome a new contributor, Graham Holmes. Graham lives in England and is not at all concerned with “passing” or projecting a femme side. He is happy wearing dresses (and other feminine attire) and is a content man in a dress. Read about what it’s like just doing what you want.
Lou Reed had a TG girlfriend. A Boston TG harassed by police wins a court battle. Monica Beverly Hillz is not a drag queen, she’s a TG. There’s a new line of lingerie for TGs. Anna Grodzka is not elected deputy speaker in Poland. Bear drag. The latest trend? It’s all in TWIT!
Yolanda was introduced to readers of Perpetual Change back in 2001 when she fronted a band called The Plastic Family. Since then Pamela DeGroff has featured Rev. Roger Anthony Yolanda Mapes several times. Today she talks with Yolanda about her new CD. And more!
The Artist D! is feeling as if she is ripping in two. Her femme side is an outgoing, artistic woman who loves glamor and all that falls under that label. Her male persona is a drab fella who plods thorough the work day. What’s The Artist D! to do?
I was asked by “Angela”, if I’d be interested in writing a few blogs about my “latex fetish,” my interest in the SMBD community or something about my music. I will get into all of those activities after I get some of my other thoughts out first, as to give some insight into who I am.
Our Out & About report this week is from Camille Brandon down in Florida. Camille and her Meetup Group went to Hamburger Mary’s Orlando and a splendid time was had by one and all. Take a look at her report and see the fun you could be having.
We received an email from Oren the president of a well regarded breast form company called Divine Collection about their new product, Aphrodite. Here is what he wanted to share about this new approach to achieving a realistic bust line.
We reported that San Francisco may honor Vicki Marlane, a performer from the old school of drag who was a female impersonator from the early ’50s ’til her GRS in the early ’80 when she became a TG performer. Vicki passes away in 2011. David de Alba wrote to share some memories of Vicki.
The Week In Transgenderism is the weekly wrap up of the past week’s TG news. From all around the world we gather the stories that you want to see. Today the crossdressing in the Jenner divorce rumor. Another TG inmate sues for reassignment. IKEA apologizes. And a lot more!
Last month Dallas Denny’s column was a reprint of her original 1993 Chrysalis article, Transsexualism at Forty. This month Dallas look at the first three of her twelve observations from the original paper to see how they hold up two decades later.
