Sharon Needles is a cannibal zombie. StormMiguel Florez is a Manhattan drinking zombie. The Thai airline with TG flight attendants is no longer aloft. The East Aurora school district teased TGs with rights. A drag queen running for City Council in Maine. Xelle has a new video. It’s in TWIT!
Chaz Bono fund raises for a GOP candidate. “RuPaul’s Drag Race” features all stars. Ron Perlman talks about playing a TS. A Chinese “Idol group” features 200 sexy CDs. Walton Goggins plays a TG call girl on “Sons of Anarchy.” Black Madam goes on trial. Susan Stanton gets a new job. All in TWIT!
From around the world and up your street! The finasteride TG is still in the news. The McDonald’s attacker is caught. Young TGs in England get a visit from the police. Lea T in Milan. Kinky Boots opens in Chicago. “trAnnie” creates conflict down under. Dr. Who in a dress. Drag in Vegas. And more!
Dina Amberle brings us a steaming potpourri of tidbits and delicacies she has found in the news. From pop stars embracing weight gain to men growing breasts when they don’t want them, to androgynous male models who model women’s clothing on the runway, Dina cooks it, stirs it and serves it in Dina’s Diner.
We have news of transgender South American teachers. There’s another big flap brewing over Michelle Kosilek. It’s ladyboys on pachyderms in Thailand. A Peacock is a queen in Missouri. A drag queen says she was forced to serve time in the women’s jail. All that and much more is waiting in TWIT.
A drag performer makes it on to The X Factor. A transwoman in Philadelphia is murdered. Anderson Cooper interviews the person who said an anti=baldness drug made her transgendered. Honey Boo Boo Child may be dueting with RuPaul. An influential critic of poetry is a crossdresser. And more!
This week we’ve got the first official in Vietnam. A former male comic is now a female comic. A convicted murderer wins the right to GRS in jail. There were 13 TG delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Buck Angel starts a FtM dating site. Lana Wachowski speaks about transition. And more!
RuPaul is getting her own comic book. Janet Mock is speaking to a LGBTQ youth conference. The TG delegate to the Democratic National Convention delivers a sermon. One of us has been elected to the Democratic National Committee. Jennifer Leitham is in a movie. Toyota crosses more gender lines. More!
The TGF staffers spend the week scouring the World Wide Web for anything that remotely resembles TG related news. This week they’ve done it again! There’s news of pageant winning in Canada, TG students getting a break in Philly, and much much more.
In 2005 a Congress passed and President George W. Bush signed into law the Real ID Act of 2005. It is a draconian law that forces everyone with a driver’s license to bring their proof of birth to the DMV to turn that license into a national ID card. It’s a nightmare for all but definitely for TGs.
Liza was onstage with drag queens. The Affordable Care Act will protect TGs needing healthcare. What’s so bad about a boy in a dress? Sean Bean looks sexy in his dress. Ron Pealman, not so good. Half and half photography from NYC. A host of TWIT Awards and a lot more. It’s what we call TWIT!
From across the pond and down the road we gather all the transgender related news we can find and we call it The Week In Transgenderism. This week: a play about Lindsay Lohan, Wardrobe freedom at Oxford. The Drag Race All Stars. Chinese crossdressing. Dr. Sherman Leis, and a whole lot more!
A young TG from Ohio has paid over $70,000 to look like Britney Spears. A TG student in England was told to go home and put on a boy’s school uniform. Willam is riled up at a certain chicken chain. There’s a new foreign center for SRS. It’s all in TWIT!
Harisu has a video for her new single release. A movie about hijra is pulling big crowds in India. The Episcopal Church authorizes TG priests. There are more documentaries about TGs. A transwoman wants to be Korea’s next Top Model. How is Doc Severinson connected to the TG world? Find out all about it in TWIT!
Pejic was back on the runway. The Thai TS elected to local government has to wear a male uniform. Argentina has handed out its first ID cards for TGs. A transwoman alleges the D.C. police mistreated her. Harisu makes a comeback, and a lot more in TWIT.
It’s all the TG news you ever need every week in TWIT. This week there are drag races in New Zealand, a Best Dressed Contest infiltrated by a drag queen, a teen TG prom queen, discrimination by the police in Toronto, Chaz Bono on Degrassi and a whole lot more.
Is that a little old lady or a TV? What’s this about Justin Vivian Bond being a minister? Dr. Christine McGinn is in a movie? Laura Jane Grace speaks. There’s a photo exhibit of Parisian TV prostitutes coming soon. A would-be TV prostitute learns her fate. Conan uses the T word. And more!
It’s The Week In Transgenderism with all the news you need to keep up with the happenings in our transgender world. Sharon Needles gets a day in Pittsburgh. Carmen Carerra gets punked. Foxxjazell raps. April Ashley gets the MBE. And more!
A professor tries transvestite prostitution — he’s caught. Miss Pennsylvania quits the pageant to protest TG contestants. Miss USA is cool with TG contestants. TV Grayson Perry has a TV show about taste. Trans United for Obama is formed. CeCe McDonald is sentenced, and more.
From the Queen of the Whole Universe contest to queens in The Queen City, we’ve got all the TG news that’s fit to put on a monitor. Sit back, relax and read about Drink & Drag, Jessie J dissing TVs, Rugby drag cheerleaders, Christine Jorgensen’s birthday and more!
A Texas teen crossdresser will get to graduate in drag. Justice has failed in two cases involving TGs. Chile will provide SRS to all who want it. The Transgender Hall of Fame seeks nominees. A TG themed movie at Cannes. And a whole lot more!
A ruling has been made in the TG demeaning bookie advert. Chrissy Polis is still traumatized. A TG prison guard is flourishing. A former firefighter/stripper is now a drag queen. Jenna loses! Black Madam strikes again. Lea T. has surgery. All that and more in TWIT!
A punk rocker has announced he’s going to be a woman. Argentina is a leader in TG rights. More beauty pageant news. Do crossdressers make safer drivers? Lady Bunny’s early survival job. A fire kills The Puerto Rican Beyonce. Hired and fired all in one day. It’s all in TWIT!
A Spice Girl and a drag queen are making beautiful music together. Drag sells Tupperware. A Puerto Rican queen is cooking healthy. A FtM student teacher is tossed out and the school may pay. CeCe pleads guilty. A transwoman is killed in Oakland. It’s all in TWIT.
From far Thailand and Singapore to San Francisco, Memphis, and the high seas — we’ve gathered the transgender news from around the world and present it for you in the column we call The Week In Transgenderism. TG porn stars on campus, ladyboy knife fights, drag on The Mentalist, and lots more!
A-Rod stepping from the baseball diamond into a gown and diamond earrings? Competing in beauty pageants — a win for TGs? Kate Bornstein is content with ambiguity. An Angolan TS does techno rap. Osbourne and Pejic share award. RuPaul seeks queens for next season. All that and more in TWIT.
