The Week In Transgenderism 2/6/12

The controversy over the tampon ad in New Zealand that featured a drag queen “competing” with a GG in the lady’s room over who was the most stereotypically female drags on. The bureau that regulates advertising in New Zealand has ruled on the ad and found it not to be offensive to transgender people. Transgender people have a different view. Read all about it and watch the ad again at 9News.com.au.

In Canada your gender can be decided by an airport security screener. And they can keep you from boarding your flight to Thailand where you were going to get your surgery when they decide that your gender doesn’t match what it says on your passport. Read all about the glitch in Canada’s Identity Screening Regulations that prohibits many TGs from taking to the air at CBC.ca.

Andrew O'Neil

Eddie Izzard now has competition in the British transvestite comedian area. There’s a new girl in town and her name is Andrew O’Neill. Andrew is a self described anarchist, transvestite and heavy metal loving comedian. He’s got a show coming up in Redhill, U.K. Learn about Andrew’s act in the Wimbeldon Guardian.

Slim reporting from Germany seems to indicate that that country may not be a great place to be a transgendered child — at least if one of your parents doesn’t accept your gender identity. It seems that an 11 year-old TG girl may be sent to an institution because her father won’t accept her as a girl. He and the mother are divorced but it seems he’s convinced the authorities that his “son” is crazy and needs to be sent to a psychiatric institution. Read about it in The Huffington Post.

The candidate

This is the year that Mexico has its first ever transsexual candidate for office. Diana Sanchez Barrios began her gender change at 16 and is now preparing to run for office in Mexico City. She hopes to win a seat on the municipal assembly. Her candidacy is based on defense of human rights and gender identity. Meet her at hispanicallyspeakingnews.com.

Everyone is now aware of the 99% in this country who are unemployed, underemployed and trying to do something about it by participating in the Occupy Movement. But did you know that transgendered people face twice the rate of unemployment of the rest of the 99%? No wonder they are out there participating in the protests. The National Center for Transgender Equality says go ahead and protest, but be careful out there. Read the story in The San Diego Gay & Lesbian News.

The Girl Scout cookie boycott is being fought by all right thinking Americans who support the Girl Scouts in their TG positive policy that let Bobby Montoya join. If you want to help out you can now buy Girl Scout cookies online and the proceeds from the sale will go to Bobby’s troop. The catch is you won’t get the cookies but you’ll be donating them to an abused children’s home and supporting Bobby and the Scouts. Find out how in The Huffington Post.

Khloe Kardashian, the one who people sometimes say looks like a transvestite (actually with the amount of makeup they use all of them look kind of dragish) is now the host of a radio show in Dallas, Texas. On her debut show she floated the idea of hosting a Khloe look-a-like contest for Texas drag queens. Can’t wait to see the photos from that. Get the dish at gather.com.

Actress Blake Lively, best know for Gossip Girl, has stated that she hopes to have children someday and they had better be girls or “trannies” since Blake wants to share her fabulous wardrobe with them. Will she be the latest celebrity to be taken to task for using the “t” word? Or is anything Blake Lively says of so little import that no one will care? Check it out in the Winnipeg Free Press.

Remember the transgender woman who was attacked by two teens in a Maryland McDonald’s? Her attackers were tried and locked up. The older girl got five years in prison for the assault. The other girl was 14 at the time of the attack and has been held in custody in a juvenile detention facility. Now the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services wants to release her. Get the facts in The Washington Blade.

India now has its first transgender pastor of the Evangelical Church of India, a sect that is associated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Pastor Bharathi completed her bachelor’s degree in theology last year and is now preaching to a congregation in Chengalputtu. India. Meet her in The Times of India.

A. J. McLean, a member of The Backstreet Boys, was happy to explore being a backstreet girl for famous photographer Tyler Shields. He wore a black tulle dress and extreme heels to pose on the street in the rough part of town. His embrace of femininity didn’t extend to shaving his beard. See the photo at Inquisitr.com.

Since RuPaul’s Drag Race is on the air with a new season there’s all sorts of RuPaul stories in the media. If you’ve just said, “Ru who?” Then you’ll want to read The Tao of Ru in The Daily.

Cambell

Our Meet The Teenage Transsexual article come to us from England. She’s Cambell Kenneford, a 16 year-old blonde who hopes to be a professional model. The story credits Lady Gaga with inspiring Cambell to start living full time as a girl. Or as they put it, “Gaga inspired transsexual boy to be a girl.” Not really how that works. Read all about it in The Sun.

A blogger at themarysue.com got to thinking about how Catwoman in Batman movies always wears high heels, even when she’s fighting. If she can do it why shouldn’t Batman wear them too? She asked her artistic friends to draw Batman fighting in high heels and presented the results in her blog on January 30th. Check give them a look at themarysue.com.

Sandler as Jill

The Adam Sandler comedy Jack and Jill has been out for awhile now so it comes as a bit of a surprise that someone just did a review of it. Perhaps it will be on DVD shortly. The writer was so unimpressed with the film that he maintains the film may contain the exact moment that cinematic crossdressing officially stopped being funny. Read his review, which features references to other unfunny crossdressing films as well as the award winning ones at todayonline.com.

TWIT AWARD

Back in the 1960s protest era many anti-war demonstrators called police officers “pigs.” It seems that the NYPD are doing their best to maintain that designation. A NYC transgender woman is suing the city and several police officers who, after she was arrested for using her father’s discount fare card in the subway, chained her to a wall at the police station for 28 hours with her arm raised over her head. And there was verbal abuse from policemen and fellow prisoners. The facts are appalling and you can find them at gothamist.com. A very large TWIT Award to the New York Police Department.

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