FTM - MY CHEST REVEAL

I spotted this on Dr. Garramone's Tumblr page. I am not sure how I ended up there, but I did. ;-)

Started crying from watching this video:

Guy has chest surgery with Dr. Garramone. This is his journey:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01af1Nnid6s&feature=share&list=UUTU6X1ggllkqDt591ZsGaVg 

http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/dr-garramone 

I cried too!!

The Voice Thailand 2012, Transgender competitor

Introducing Allyson Robinson

Out-Serve-SLDN is the global association of actively-serving LGBT U.S. military personnel, and Allyson Robinson is it's new leader. Congratulations Allison!!

The Beautiful Daughter: How My Korean Mother Gave Me the Courage to Transition

Here is an amazing post by Andy Mara. Her NPR interview about is just ahead of this post.

Growing up, I remember making a pact with myself. As an adopted child I promised to find my family in Korea, but how exactly that would occur remained a mystery to me. I luckily had the unconditional support of my American family, even if they were stumped by my vague plan.

I later came out as a trans woman in 2003. I was also fortunate enough to receive an outpouring of love, acceptance and support from family and friends.

But there was always one barrier to my life of intersecting identities that I struggled to overcome. I could never find the will to move forward with my transition -- taking hormones or surgery -- despite the opportunity to do so. And my hesitation was largely due to my unknown family living far away in Korea.

Like me, more than 200,000 Korean babies and children have been sent overseas. But less than 3 percent of us are able to find our families. The odds were clearly not in my favor. But what if I did find my family after all these years? And how would they handle meeting a young woman instead of a baby boy who should have grown into manhood? I was left with few ideas

Transgender Woman Finds Acceptance In South Korea

I had read her blog at Huffington Post and was so moved I said so to her at her Facebook page. Now this one so moved me I actually cried.

TransActive: The True Story

Watch "TransActive The True Story Final" on YouTube

Bradley Manning Had Secrets

Bradley Manning Had Secrets from Animate Projects on Vimeo.

The story of Bradley Manning, not as a Wikileaks 'hacktivist', but as a young American soldier simultaneously going through a crisis-of-conscience and a crisis-of-gender-identity.

Written and Directed by Adam Butcher - www.adam-butcher.co.uk/bmhs

Commissioned by Animate Projects. Supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation and the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Visit http://www.animateprojects.org/films/by_project/digitalis/digitalis_commissions for more information on the project.

Cool video about Bradley Manning which includes his wish to become a woman.

Nashville Metro Government offices.

TDOR Boy & Girls

We have here a crossdresser, a transman and a transwoman. We are all friends and we all get along. Amazing (said dripping with sarcasm.)

I AM: Trans People Speak - Jennifer Finney Boylan

Sent from my iPad

I AM: Trans People Speak - Laverne Cox

I love how she is out there, as a visible transwoman. Not many of us are able or willing to do it, but she does it with grace. She is an inspiration to me.

Sent from my iPad

SAME LOVE - Keep dry eye if you can!!

MACKLEMORE and RYAN LEWIS - SAME LOVE feat. MARY LAMBERT (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

Pacific Beat St Ep 167 - What is a Fa'afafine

Lana Wachowski receives the HRC Visibility Award

Transgender Day of Remembrance - Nashville - 2012

Transgender Day of Remembrance, November 14, 2012, Nashville, Tennessee

Thanks for the Vanderbilt LGBTQI Life Office for all the work you did putting this on.

Wednesday is Nashville's Transgender Day of Remembrance

November 14, 2012

share. learn. commemorate.

Doors open at 6:30pm; Program starts at 7pm.

Student Life Center, Ballroom A, Vanderbilt University

310 25th Avenue South – www.vanderbilt.edu/map

Visitor Metered Parking in garage on Highland and 25th.

For additional locations, please consult:

www.vanderbilt.edu/traffic_parking/visitor-parking.php

For more information,email

petey.peterson@vanderbilt.edu

Office of the

Dean of Students

Steven Colbert's Alpha Dog of the Week - Scott DesJarlais

Wow, my US House guy made the Colbert Report. No wonder he is not doing is telephone town halls these days.  :-)

Wednesday October 17, 2012

Alpha Dog of the Week - Scott DesJarlais

Republican Congressman Scott DesJarlais stands adamantly against abortion except when it endangers the political life of the father.

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/420305/october-17-2012/alpha-dog-of-the-week---scott-desjarlais

At 16, this girl became the youngest in the world to have a life-changing operation, can you guess what it was? | Mail Online

• Jackie Green, 19, was born a boy named Jack
• After seven attempts to kill herself and two years on suicide watch her parents let her become a girl
• On her 16th birthday she became the youngest person in the world to have a gender reassignment surgery

Many little girls dream of growing up to be someone like Jackie Green. An aspiring model, the 19-year-old’s cascading chestnut hair, porcelain complexion and aquiline nose are reminiscent of a  pre-Raphaelite muse, or maybe one of the Downton actresses.

My Transition in Pictures

Some people really clean up well!!!

Human Sexuality is Complicated...

I like he brought in the concept of intensity as I did on the Gingerbread Man. :-)

Obama Pride: LGBT Americans for Obama

Come out and vote for President Obama!!!

Not just Another statistic | Story 4 | Jenny-Anne Bishop

Great telling of your story, Jenny-Anne!!!

Obama Back Again - Shelby Bottom String Band

Intersex, Transsexual, Transgender Veterans

Transgender advocates, seemed to have made some inroads with the local Veterans Administration (VA) lately. The VA knows now that they have to provide many services to transgender veterans, but I guess have no idea how many of us are out there. 

In order to find out how may of us are out there they are doing a bit of a survey. They are asking us to call, write or email them with the following information.

Name … (Not required, but if you are a current patient it is really helpful to identify)

Branch of Service … (You know the drill)

Time of service …  (Years in, and dates)

Your needs …  (Hormones, Evaluation, Therapy, other medical)

Proximity to the  Nashville  Region 9 center …

( Distance, i.e. covers Eastern Arkansas, Northern Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Western Virginia, Chattanooga area, Memphis, Knoxville, Nashville, see http://www2.va.gov/directory/guide/region_flsh.asp?map=0&ID=9  )

Please contact:

Tennessee Valley Healthcare System

Nashville Campus

Attn: Patient Advocates Office

1310 24th Avenue  South
Nashville ,  TN   37212

615-327-4751 | 800-228-4973

or

Email < safepath@yahoo.com >

I have contacted them by email today!!

Alert:   THIS IS IMPORTANT to all Veterans who are Intersex, Transsexual, or Transgender

The VA Tennessee Regional Medical System is in need to know the density and number of Veterans who are afflicted with these conditions. THIS IS IMPORTANT to you and your fellow service Veterans. Simply, to get the appropriate care for the Veteran service community VA needs to know how many they may have in this region.  It is a matter of establishing the need, so training and professionals in Therapy, Endocrinology, Psychology, and Social Services can be provided.  Many of us are struggling to maintain, or to find a “SAFE PATH” to move forward.  YOU ARE NEEDED!  Please, respond to the following, asking for a Patient Advocate.  It would be helpful to offer the following information, but if you are leery or feel concerned, then at least respond anonymously.  However, to provide the following information will help greatly… And all will be held in privacy.  This is for your battle buddies, and those who are now struggling as veterans, and on active duty who are right behind you.  Stand up and be counted!

Name … (Not required, but if you are a current patient it is really helpful to identify)

Branch of Service … (You know the drill)

Time of service …  (Years in, and dates)

Your needs …  (Hormones, Evaluation, Therapy, other medical)

Proximity to the  Nashville  Region 9 center …

(Distance, i.e. covers Eastern Arkansas, Northern Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Western Virginia, Chattanooga area, Memphis, Knoxville, Nashville, see http://www2.va.gov/directory/guide/region_flsh.asp?map=0&ID=9  )

Please contact:

Tennessee Valley Healthcare System

Nashville Campus

Attn: Patient Advocates Office

1310 24th Avenue  South
Nashville ,  TN   37212
615-327-4751 | 800-228-4973

or

< safepath@yahoo.com >

You have served, but your oath never ends… We leave no one behind!

 ER LeClaire – US Army (Veteran)

Dan Savage discusses bible at High School Journalism convention

This is the speech that caused all the fuss!!!

Dan Savage vs. Brian Brown: The Dinner Table Debate

You can read more at the Huffington Post: Dan Savage And Brian Brown: LGBT Rights Advocate Meets NOM President For Dinner Debate.

Happy Gay Pride Day! - 2007

I was cleaning up a few posts here and watched this video again. I was moved to tears again.  She did a wonderful job integrating her video with the music. It is almost like the folks shown are preforming the music. Genius!!! 

[You can see more of her Lesbian community blog at avalonfarmblog.wordpress.com 
and podcast at www.avalonfarmcast.com]

The pictures were captured from the above video.

Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me (TISM)

I found a few of the links were bad on my old post on this song and video. I fixed them to working ones. I still love this song. I kinda wholesale borrowed the code to play this video here too. To bad there is no pause on the controls (what controls) so it will just keep playing, sorry.
This was the winning video to this TISM song (yes that is a name of a group.) Wikipedia says this about TISM:

TISM (an acronym of This Is Serious Mum) is a seven piece anonymousalternative rock band from Melbourne, Australia. The group formed in 1982 and enjoyed a large underground / independent following until 1995 when its third album Machiavelli and the Four Seasons reached the Australian national top 10.

Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me (TISM)

Save to Disk: EEHHMSTM.swf
Windows: Right-click Save
Mac OS X: Ctrl-click Save

Everyone else has had more sex than me.
Everyone else has had more sex than me.

Everyone else has had more sex than me.
Does anyone else get that feeling?

Teenagers naked,
Couple in threes
Grandparents swing from the ceiling.

Everyone else has had more sex than me.
Everyone else has had more sex than me.

Corporate chambers and office amore.
Shenanigans outdoor and in.
Resist and then later your find out there's more
Regret in not doing the sin.

Our lives have to die
Of that there's no help
My favourite way to end them
Is the orb-weaver spider's whose pedipalp
Enters the female pudendum.

Then dies on the spot
His corpse there still stuck,
Left for his rivals to curse at.
He would rather die than not get to f^ck
Personally I reckon it's worth it.

Everyone else has had more sex than me.
Does anyone else get that feeling?

Everyone else has had more sex than me.
Does everybody else get that feeling?

...

Does everyone think...

Trans-Friendly Police Woman of Memphis

FRIDAY, JULY 9, 2010

Trans-Friendly Police Woman of Memphis

POSTED BY BIANCA PHILLIPS ON FRI, JUL 9, 2010 AT 2:24 PM

This may be old news to some, but I caught last week's episode of TLC's Police Women of Memphis in the encore showing last night. In one scene, Officer Joy Jefferson schools a couple of teens who had been harassing a couple of transgender ladies in a neighborhood near Latham and East Trigg.

• Officer Joy Jefferson

"You deserve to be comfortable and happy and on sit on your porch and rock your fuschia hair," Jefferson tells the transgender women after warning their harassers to stay away.

• Jefferson calms transgender harassment victims

Earlier in the scene, she tells the camera person riding along in her squad car, "If you are a good person, you should always be treated with respect."

After the way former Memphis Police officer Bridges McRae handled relations with transgender police brutality victim Duanna Johnson in 2008, I guess I'd formed a negative opinion of the department's ability to deal with diversity. But Jefferson proved that some MPD officers are respectful to transgender people. Way to go, Jefferson!

Watch the scene for yourself on TLC by clicking here. The police call in question is about seven minutes into the video, but you can fast forward if you're in a hurry.

Wednesday April 13, 2011

Toemageddon 2011 - This Little Piggy Went to Hell

The media reports on a five-year-old boy with pink toenails like it's a story about incest or cannibalism.

www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-april-13-2011/toemageddon-2011---this-little-piggy-went-to-hell

"Living with a secret"

Living with a secret - Framework - Photos and Video - Visual Storytelling from the Los Angeles Times

(updated with a picture from the video.)

My transgender heroines

I found this while looking for something else. I took the liberty of translating it from it's original Polish. I also found it interesting to read about all these transwomen around the world. So many accomplished women, that I had never heard of. It shows that we are everywhere and that I live in a bubble.

Way to go Carla!! Your becoming world renown.

This is is a blog by Monika Transs. I love it!!

Moje Transseksualne Bohaterki

Thomas Beatie – “The Pregnant Man” – gets his surgery.

Cooking in Heels: A Memoir Cookbook

Quite a story!! I can hardly wait for the book!!

Honoring the memory of Birmingham (and Nashvile's) transsexual Jody Suzanne Ford

She was also originally from Nashville, Tennessee. 

County Commission Candidate Gina Duncan talks with Fox 35

It Gets Better - Buck Angel

Wow so moving. Yes, there is help out there. Contact me if you like. I can help or help you find help near you.

How I Seize It #43: "Gender Identity"

This is so bad, I should be offended. But it is funny. LOL

Why I Transitioned?

We want to be on the outside the way we feel on the inside.

Silicone Is it a Fantacy or a Tragedy?

"Silicone the dangers of get pumped and becoming a overnight beauty . This video is going to help you take safety precautions and learn more about the other options .This video is also in memory of Brandesha."

Thanks ladies!! This is information that we all need to know. The scary part is you do it anyway.

Miz-Know-It-All

Our friend her recently made a comment to a post here. Thanks for reading my blog. I looked around to see who she was. Some how she inadvertently mistyped her user name. LOL

Just click the link below and see were it takes you. 

"Miz-Know-It-All"  says in her profile:

"I'm a whole bunch smarter and way better looking than you!"

I do wonder if she is so much better looking then anyone, why she does not use her own picture??? I also wonder what her boy name is???

Housing Works Transgender Program PSA

Housing Works Transgender Program PSA from Housing Works on Vimeo.

Public Service Announcement for the Housing Works Transgender Program.

Housing Works is the nation's largest grass roots AIDS organization, providing life-saving housing, health care, food, AIDS prevention and job training services to more than 20,000 homeless HIV-positive New Yorkers since 1990.

If you would like more information on our transgender program or other AIDS services, please visit WWW.HOUSINGWORKS.ORG

(PSA directed by Matthew Kulvicki for Filmworks Brooklyn | filmworksbrooklyn.com)

It is 3 years old but still worthwhile.

U2 - One -The Best Live Acoustic

One of my favorite songs ever. But I sure would like to see this done a bit more live.

2 Hot Transexuals Finally Give Some Answers!

Questions... for Cis People — Red Durkin

 Well said, Red!!!

Living a Transgender Childhood

Living a Transgender Childhood, Part 1

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Living a Transgender Childhood, Part 2

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Living a Transgender Childhood, Part 3

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Transgender children in America encounter new crossroads with medicine

Transgender children in America encounter new crossroads with medicine

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Possession Pile Up: Hoarders

Possession Pile Up: Hoarders

"Thriving as a Transgender Person"

Thriving as a Transgender Person

The MANgina Monologues (A One Trans Show) starring Riki Wilchins

The White House Proposal

Trans United for Obama

www.TransUnitedForObama.org

President Obama and Marisa Richmond (of Nashville, TN)

Trans United For Obama (TU4O) on Facebook

Ian Harvie Trans Word Play

I saw Ian in Nashville a few years ago. He was great!!

"Waking Up With Jessica" - Episode 4 - Jessica Interviews Voice Over Act...

"Bully" Movie Receives Mid-State Support

I'm NOT Trans Enough Video/Love 'Round The World

I told him "Great video!! Your trans enough for me!!!!"


There is no right way to be trans!!!

The Eastern Bear Chapter 1.

My friend Robin Cooksey has finished her book, and is reading it for us here. More chapters to come.

I missed this event live last night, but I watched it when I should have been heading to bed. It is such a great play. I love movies about the law anyway. It is well worth your time to watch this.

It is about the court case to overturn Proposition 8 (the gay marriage ban) in California.

"8": A Play about the Fight for Marriage Equality

Featuring an all-star cast including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Martin Sheen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jane Lynch, Kevin Bacon and others, "8" is a play written by Academy Award winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black and directed by acclaimed actor and director Rob Reiner. It is a powerful account of the case filed by the American Federation for Equal Rights (AFER ) in the U.S. District Court in 2010 to overturn Proposition 8 [LINK], a constitutional amendment that eliminated the rights of same-sex couples to marry in the state of California. Framed around the trial's historic closing arguments in June 2010, 8 provides an intimate look what unfolded when the issue of same-sex marriage was on trial.