Do you have a gender question and don’t know where to turn? If so Ask Amanita! Amanita is a gender counselor who offers counseling to trans people around the world online. We’re happy to have her available here on TGForum. Today Amanita answers a question how to cope as an isolated trans person in a quarantined world.
Kristine Holt starts to recognize people throughout the ages who are seen as role models for transgender people. Along the way she gets caught up in not just the individuals who have helped transgender people win recognition but list many of the events that occurred because of trans people’s effort to be seen and accepted. She starts off in 204 BC and follows our progress up to 2015.
For the past eight months or so Dana Bevan has been intensely studying the literature on transgender personalities and pathological personality disorders because of experiences she described in a previous post on narcissism. Do pathological disorders of personality contribute to transgender causation and, if so, which ones?
Kay finds herself running through endless, dark corridors with the sound of pursuit behind her. Where can she find sanctuary? Where can she find Nat? How can she hide? Why bother? It all looks the same. She’s running through what could be a maze and there’s no escape. The demented surgeon will have her soon.
In TWIT Today we learn the story of the Orthodox rabbi who transitioned will be coming to the screen. Virginia has a non-binary driver’s license option. Joe Biden’s anti-violence plan for women includes federal funding for local efforts to help transgender communities. Arizona introduces a ban on trans women in high school sports. The Idaho governor seems to not be familiar with the anti-trans bills he signed into law. Former gubernatorial candidate in Vermont, Christine Halquist, tests positive for Coronavirus. A Navy lieutenant sues to stay in the service after transitioning. The president’s new press secretary believes trans women in the ladies’ room are a threat to children. A trans teen girl traveling with her mother is groped by the TSA after a false positive scanner reading. COVID-19 hits trans people hard. Tiger King’s Saff Saffrey speak out. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights awards monetary compensation to a trans woman raped by police in Peru. There’s that and much more, along with several TWIT Awards, waiting for you in TWIT!
It’s late and Sophie is trying to get to sleep. Through the thoughts buzzing around in her brain she hears a voice. The voice denies her reality and the conversation is not anywhere close to a delightful session of witty banter. The voice is downright nasty at times. Will Sophie silence that mean voice and get the rest she needs? Read “Insomnia” and find out.
If you’re all alone at home, and are all dressed up wishing you could go out and share your look with the world be aware that we are still posting Isolated Beauties photos. Since the large number of submissions has fallen off we are posting new photos in new posts. If more ladies send us […]
Kay ran for the door as the mad surgeon/torturer vowed to hunt her down and use his instruments on her body for a long, long time. Where can she hide? How can she escape the fate the maniac has planned for her? Today she finds herself running through endless, dark corridors with the sound of pursuit behind her. Where can she find sanctuary? Where can she find Nat?
It has been several weeks since our lives forcibly changed making us take the virtual path as the most relevant at the moment, and feel a slight reflection on what our lives were before. Before this, my artistic life ran from bar to bar or from cultural place to cultural place. Now, it goes from […]
Christine Burr is with us this week with a new post. She has been pondering questions about the nature of her transgender identity. Why write a book about the questions she is grappling with? For one thing getting it all down on paper helped her get some clarity. She defines what she sees as the three different varieties of male bodied people who crossdress. There’s the part time crossdresser who is content to wear some lingerie, or other femme attire, the ones who dress fully and form social relationships, spending more time every month as their femme self, and those who go full time. Christine wonders where she fits and, as the title of her book reads, “Am I Trans Enough?”
New Contributor Kristina Leigh is working on a series of essays about transgender issues. Today we present her first work, including copious footnotes, titled Transgenderality: A Critique of Patriarchal Institutions. Part of her thesis is “A reinterpretation of gender is not only necessary in the postmodern age; it is inevitable. Society and its institutions will catch up with transgenderality eventually. The fraudulence of sexism and phallocentricity has already been exposed; transgenderality has been one of the critiques.”
Today we learn that last Tuesday was Transgender Day of Visibility and even though we are isolating the day caught the attention of the press. Non-binary activist and consultant Rex Wilde opens a consulting firm for business on how to treat trans employees. The matriarch of the Latinx trans community has passed away. More violence against trans women has occurred. Danica Roem confronts a fellow legislator for defending an ignorant teacher. TLDEF issues a guide to your rights in the age of COVID-19. Pennsylvania’s transgender Physician General is guiding the fight against the virus in that state. The only likable character on Tiger King is misgendered. Drag queens Aja and Honey Davenport drop a new single. Fans of David de Alba will enjoy his new video blog. Lot’s of TWIT Awards wrap things up in TWIT!
We’re happy to inform you that while many eateries are shutdown during the Covid-19 outbreak there is one place that never closes. We call it Dina’s Diner and since it exists in the digital virtual world it’s always open, 24/7, 365! Today Dina cooks up another delicious menu of items including dating while trans, South Korea’s growing acceptance of transgender people, the first trans news anchor, the appeal of actress Valerie Perrine, and the greatness of big hair. Stop in at the Diner and eat your fill.
in Episode 24 we saw the bizarre vivisectionist fight off his caged victims as one of them freed Kay from her restraints. She ran for the door as the mad surgeon/torturer vowed to hunt her down and use his instruments on her body for a long, long time. Where can she hide? How can she escape the fate the maniac has planned for her? And, what did he mean an episode or so ago about “presenting the two of you to the masters”? Ready for Episode 25?
Many of us are impacted by the virus induced lockdown. While some of us whine and moan about how we can’t get out to our favorite watering hole for a few happy hour cocktails en femme, or are bummed out that we can’t wear a flirty dress at a nightclub there are many under the transgender umbrella who are facing real tribulations as the lockdown continues. Claire Hall uses her blog today to remind us of the far reaching consequences of the effort to shutdown the virus.
First let me introduce myself. I’m Rabbah Rona Matlow. I’m an AFAB NB trans woman, and I use ze/hir pronouns. Rabbah in the modern context means woman rabbi. I use ze/hir deliberately rather than they/them to engage people in discussions and learning because I believe that religion, science and sociology all clearly show that the […]
Today it’s a frothy mix of songs in honor of the Transgender Day of Visibility, the drag queen from the CW show “Katy Keene”, transgender comedians — and space art. That’s right. A transgender artist’s work is orbiting the Earth right now. It’s all the showbiz and arts news in the feature we call TransTainment! With trans artists, performers, and musicians and themes featuring trans people.
What’s been in the news? Legendary New York drag performer Mona Foot has passed away from COVID-19. The Transgender Day of Visibility will find many of us out of sight. A former RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant has landed a Pantene television commercial. The Justice Department chimes in on the side of the people who want to keep trans girls from competing in high school sports. The virus out break is causing people’s GCS to be delayed. Marvel Comics has revealed a transgender doctor in The Immortal Hulk #32. A cast member of Orange Is The New Black got closer to her trans sister after working with Laverne Cox. Drag queens are taking their shows online. A troll attacked model and activist Munroe Bergdorf on social media and she did not hit back but calmly gave him information. There’s all that and a load of TWIT Awards to be handed out in this edition of TWIT!
Today Jaelle Terrell tells the story of a trans woman, Victoria, who is nearing the end of her days. We look back on how she came to transition. Back then she was a father who hated himself so much that he tried, and botched a suicide attempt. Then someone somewhere near his hospital room had RuPaul’s Drag Race tuned in. He heard the words “If you can’t love yourself, how the hell are you going to love somebody else?” That was what reached him and made him realize he wasn’t a man, but a woman. Victoria isn’t done with RuPaul, though. Read on and find out how her story ends.
Our new blogger Robben Wendy Wainer debuts today with a post on the plight of trans youth. While many in the transgender community have safe, comfortable places to live transgender youths who are rejected by their parents for expressing their preferred gender are often kicked out of the house. If they have no other options they may end up trying to support themselves selling their bodies on the street. Robben writes about what needs to be done to stop this problem.
In the last episode Kay used the only move she could make and head butted the mad surgeon as he was about to operate on her. He fell back clutching his bleeding nose only to fall into the surgically altered hands of one of his caged victims. But Kay is still trapped, helpless in the operating chair. See what happens next in Episode 23 of “She.”
A trans woman heads toward a judgeship in Illinois. Idaho passes a bill to prevent changes of gender on birth certificates. Idaho also passes a bill banning trans females from competing in high school sports with cisgender girls. A trans woman in Ohio runs for a seat as a judge in family court. Another trans woman runs for a seat in Nevada’s assembly. As four lawsuits against the trans in the military ban work their way through the courts they are joined by a fifth. Alaska tries to deny state workers coverage for trans related health care. The virus epidemic is putting a hold on non-emergency medical procedures. A study finds that children know they are differently gendered by the age of seven. Marvel Comics creates a non-binary superhero, but controversy ensues. Victoria’s Secret’s new spring line promotion features a trans woman model. A trans woman co-anchors the nightly news in Argentina. There’s all that and much more waiting for you in TWIT!
Words. We use them everyday and generally we know what we mean. But too often people use words believing they mean one thing and others who hear those words interpret a completely different meaning. Words like gender identity, sexual identity, identity groups, identity disorders, gender identity development, social identity and more are examples of words that can mean one thing to one group of people and something else to another group. Today Dana Bevan takes you through the history and the different meanings of the word identity.
Today a reader asks Amanita how to handle coming out as transgender to a longtime friend. The friend has made transphobic statements from time to time and the reader is afraid that when they come out they will be rejected. See what Amanita counsels in this edition of Ask Amanita.
Since the virus pandemic has us all staying in our homes ladies are growing frustrated since they are not able to show off their best fashion looks in public. TGForum to the rescue with our new feature Isolated Beauties. Our users are sending their photos to be included in a photo gallery showing what they would be wearing if they could go out of the house. If you would like to be included among the Isolated Beauties send us a photo. No naughty photos, please!
Listen up! It’s The Week In Trans! Today we learn that Chelsea Manning is free after a suicide attempt. A serial killer who preyed on trans women is sentenced to death. Large numbers of primary voters identify as LGBTQ. Zaya Wade appears on the red carpet with her family. The film Breakfast on Pluto is becoming a musical but not without controversy. State legislatures are continuing their crusade to “protect” trans kids by introducing legislation that will harm them. Virginia has passed bills supporting transgender rights. Missouri wants to lock up librarians who hold a Drag Queen Story Time. A trans dance troupe celebrates its fifteenth year. A trans woman who served a 30 year prison term for attempted murder is now helping other trans women prisoners. Research says Caitlyn Jenner has been found to have reduced transphobia among older conservatives. A Mexican trans woman has won the title of Miss International Queen. There’s all that and much more waiting for you to click on TWIT!
