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.
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!
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?
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.
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.
Kylan Arianna Wenzel recently competed in the Miss California pageant. She did not advance in the competition but her story of how she made the journey from abused boy to becoming a beautiful, articulate woman is inspiring. We got an exclusive interview with Kylan and bring it to you today.
Our correspondent in Thailand asks the question many in the TG community voice: What are we doing being allies of the LGBs? LGBT rights are advancing but does the alliance benefit or hurt TGs? And what rights do TGs really want? See what Christine Burr thinks in: So — what’s the real story?
Twenty years ago Dallas Denny took a look at transsexualism, and this article resulted. In next month’s column Dalla will take a look at her ten observations from twenty years ago and see how they hold up. She might even add a couple of new points.
The use of a transsexual prostitute in a blackmail scheme by the fictional motorcycle gang the Sons of Anarchy on the television series of the same name has provoked controversy. Dallas Denny examines the scene.
Before the 1990s if you were out and transgendered you didn’t have much of a chance to publish anything like a novel, scientific literature, short stories or even poems. The two niche markets open to the out TG were writing for other TGs in newsletters and magazine. The other was autobiographies.
This is the sixth in our TGF Rerun series examining how we classy transgendered folks were portrayed in cheap tabloids and men’s magazines. Men were the target audience for these publications, and their yellowed yellow journalism tells us how we looked to some guys in the years between 1949 and 1977.
TGF Rerun: This is the 5th in our series from the late ’90s examining how TG folks were portrayed in cheap tabloids, the progenitors of the supermarket sensational press, and risqué men’s magazines; an innocent genre of porn which was more naughty than raunchy.
For some reason radical feminists are upset about transsexuals. Are they not really feminists but just a man haters club? Quit possibly. A publisher was set to release a book by a radical feminist. Dallas Denny and and Jamison Green sent the publisher a letter and told them to stop.
This month Dallas Denny brings words of encouragement to transsexuals who lost their loves when they transitioned. Dallas was exploring virtual worlds when she found, after all these years, a real love.
An op-ed in the New York Times this past weekend put forth the theory, supported by some data, that homophobes are likely to have homosexual tendencies. Coincidentally Dallas Denny feels that transphobic individuals are probably drawn to TG behaviors — or there’s some other issue at work.
Tasi Zuriack has sent in a book review. She has read My Next Husband Will Be Normal — A St. John Adventure by Rae Ellen Lee. Ms. Lee and her husband had moved to St. John in the Virgin Islands to lead a laid back life running a canvas goods shop. Then her husband began to explore his transgender issue. Get Tasi’s take on the story and read her review.
Dallas Denny digs into the history of attempts to “fix” crossdressers and transsexuals with everything from psychoanalysis to sleep deprivation and high doses of meth. She zeros in on “reparative therapy” and disgraced practitioner Geroge Rekers.
This month Dr. Michele Angello discusses the individuals in her practice who are under the age of 13. She even has children under the age of 4 who identify as transgender. When is too young for a child to know what gender they are?
Legendary transsexual performer Coccinelle is often talked about and written about. Now, thanks to David de Alba, we have a glimpse of her performing on film in the 1960s. She dances and sings in this clip.
What should you do if you have a child who is gender nonconforming — or one who does conform to a gender role, just not the biological one? What if the doctor recently told you your child is intersexed? What if your child is telling you she wants a sex change?
Dallas Denny has mixed feelings about the Standards of Care and gives us both the pros and cons in this installment of WPATH and The Standards of Care. Do the Standards serve transmen well? Why shouldn’t a transwoman get breast augmentation when she wants? Dallas answers those questions and more.
Since 1979 the primary professional organization for professionals working with TG and TS people has published guidelines for the hormonal and surgical treatment of people seeking sex reassignment. Dallas Denny takes a look at the origin and evolution of The Standards of Care.
Wedding bells where ringing in Cuba this past weekend on Fidel Castro’s 85th birthday. A Cuban transsexual and her gay activist boyfriend got married in what the media are calling a “gay wedding.” Really? Seems like a man woman wedding to us. View the video coverage!
Israeli pop diva Aderet has a new single out and she’s sung it in French. Extraordianire! And that’s the name of the song, too. Our music maven Pam DeGroff reports on the Aderet single and gives us some tips on other tunes to check out.
Dallas Denny has a second life, and she tells you how you can have one, too. There’s no need to be limited by physical restraints. Be all you want to be in virtual reality. Learn how in Part 2 of Dallas’ Virtual Personae.
