Transsexual News

[randolph]

Taco Bell claims a transphobic spot that had LGBT activists riled up last week has been yanked from the air ? but a similar ad is still playing on Los Angeles radio stations as of Sunday, January 24.

Earlier this month BorderHouseBlog.com reported on the radio spot in which a man and a woman are discussing a value-priced 89-cent taco. At the end of the ad, the woman says, ?Well, I have a surprise for you. I was born male, my name was Claudio,? to which the man in the ad screams, ?Ew.?

GLAAD got involved, and a spokesperson for Taco Bell quickly issued the following statement. ?We sincerely apologize as the ad was not meant to offend anyone and as soon as it was brought to our attention, we immediately stopped airing it.?

An ad airing Sunday morning in Los Angeles on KIIS FM during Ryan Seacrest?s weekly American Top 40 countdown offers a similar punch line.

In this ad, after a fight between the man and the woman, the woman says, ?Well, then I don?t feel so guilty telling you ... [I wasn?t born] Martha.? The woman?s voice then changes to a man?s voice, which says, ?I?m Marvin.?

A spokesperson for Taco Bell could not be reached over the weekend to comment on the ads still airing. Advocate.com will continue to reach out to Taco Bell for comment. Check back here for updates.

[randolph]

Changing Her Tune: How a Transsexual Woman Claims a New Identity Through Voice
Katharine Stoel Gammon One January evening in downtown San Francisco, the front hall of the Regency Ballroom was filled with people dressed in floor-length gowns. Sequins were particularly popular. A woman in a rhinestone-covered strappy number walked by, even her hair glimmering in sparkles. Other dresses dipped dangerously low in the back, revealing toned muscles, or cascaded in the front to expose buxom cleavage. Tightly laced corsets created slim waistlines and hourglass shapes. Splendidly styled heads with big curls and plentiful hairspray bobbed through the crowded marble corridor. Flashbulbs popped as the most celebrated participants walked into the room, their stiletto heels clacking against the cold stone floor. A buzz suffused the chamber, similar to the sound of a flock of geese collecting near a lake. The event was a black-tie gala, themed ?A Return to Elegance,? which drew a few hundred members of TransGender San Francisco. Each year, its cotillion is a chance for new members of the transgender community to have a ?coming out,? to walk debutante-style across the stage, and to meet other members of the city's transsexual and transgender population.
The women continued to arrive, and a few men as well. Despite the mild San Francisco weather, many wore elegant heavy furs and were already sweating as they dropped them at the coat check. Heavy floral perfume saturated the air. Voices glissando-ed to falsetto and back. The elongated vowels were striking: It's so gooooood to seeeeeee yooooouu! What are you doooooooing these daaays? What a beeeeeeaaaauuuuutiful dress you are wearing!
Some of the gala attendees were clearly in the early stages of male-to-female transition or perhaps transvestites?choosing to live as men and dress as women for pleasure in their personal lives. A young woman moved through the crowd in a tight lacy black cocktail dress and a tiny, feathered pillbox hat. She looked completely ?biological??naturally female, lacking the broad shoulders and big hands that some transsexuals bemoan cannot be altered with surgery. Others stared at her in envy and whispered to each other as she passed.
As the show began, Allison Laureano, the president of TransGender San Francisco, wearing a dress inspired by Lara Turner and a hairstyle reminiscent of Rita Hayworth, took the front stage. After some opening jokes and banter, she introduced the candidates for Miss Transgender 2007. Later a rotund transwoman performer named Tommi Rose sang about a friend who had passed away from cancer years before. ?She once said not to cremate her body because silicon doesn't burn and it would be a bad, bad sight for everyone nearby,? said Rose, wearing a royal blue dress with so much sparkle that the ballroom's walls were bathed in an underwater glow.
Among the attendees, there were those who had undergone sexual reassignment surgery to give them the genitals of their desired gender, those who had changed their faces to be more feminine, and those who had added breasts. Others had their facial hair lasered away or their Adam's apples shaved off. But the one thing that seemed to make the most difference in establishing their new identity was the way they used their voices.
Tommi Rose possessed an amazingly versatile voice; she could reach into her upper registers easily and then smoothly transition back down to a bass to speak to her audience in an intimate-sounding way. Her glittery performance, full of jokes and poignant anecdotes, was observed by hundreds of transwomen and some transmen, munching on pasta salad at linen-covered tables. Alone on the stage under the spotlight, Tommi Rose represented the entire spectrum from man to woman; her voice was an acoustic medley of the struggles transgendered people go through as they move from one way of being in the world to another.

[randolph]

In Peru some street Trannys chase off the police.


http://www.linkwhip.com/wtf/tranny-mob-runs-off-police/

[The Conquistador]

Originally Posted by randolph

In Peru some street Trannys chase off the police.


http://www.linkwhip.com/wtf/tranny-mob-runs-off-police/

Awesome! I wonder if they started chasing them with their "nightsticks".

[randolph]

Invasive questions.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandsty...-a-transsexual

[The Conquistador]

That was a pretty good read there randolph.

[franalexes]

And people wonder why I moved to the rural area of the mountains.

I'm healtier and stealthier.

[randolph]

Transsexual toilets are now available for students in Thailand with a half man half women symbol.

http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=85095

[transjen]

Originally Posted by randolph

Transsexual toilets are now available for students in Thailand with a half man half women symbol.

http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=85095

Some how i find this to be insulting, and un called for as they should just be able to use the womens room
Jerseygirl Jen

[randolph]

Originally Posted by transjen

Some how i find this to be insulting, and un called for as they should just be able to use the womens room
Jerseygirl Jen

Yes, I found it rather strange and wonder why they did it. There culture is definitely different from ours.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/1...usaolp00000592

2014 has been a whirlwind year for mainstream transgender visibility.
As we approach the end of this historic year for individuals identifying across the transgender spectrum, one magazine is celebrating the women who are living authentically and openly at the forefront of the battle for transgender rights.
For its 8th issue, Winter 2014-2015, C☆NDY Magazine brought together fourteen of the most prominent women who have become the faces of the transgender movement.
C☆NDY cites itself as "the first transversal style magazine" and is reportedly named after Candy Darling, the Andy Warhol superstar.
Luis Venegas, founder of C☆NDY, told Style.com that the shoot found inspiration from Vanity Fair's Hollywood Issue. "It’s the first time such a large number of trans women have been featured on the cover of a magazine," he stated. "Is it too daring to say that we’ve made history? Time will tell."

WOOP WOOP!

[not2old]

Self explanatory -

http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/%e2...UtBT?ocid=iehp
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[not2old]

In Serbia, this is pretty high-profile news.
A 20-year Serbian Army major comes out.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/...jor/ar-BBi2j1U
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[not2old]

In today's national news:
Planet Fitness cancels a woman's membership when she complained about a
TG woman in the women's locker room.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/r...oom/ar-AA9uYW9

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[a9127]

Thought this was a neat story.

transgender-teen-elected-homecoming-queen

[a9127]

This is the kind of shit that makes me sick. Especially the following: "In his guilty plea to the hate crime on December 21, he admitted to lying about the circumstances surrounding her death. He would not have killed Williamson if she was not transgender, he said."

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/15/us/tra...e-mississippi/

[a9127]

Found this on CNN today.

"Transgender and 7 years old, a strong voice against Texas' bathroom bill"

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/03/health...ill/index.html

[Gisker]

Any more news on what's happening?

[a9127]

Was happy to see that Indianapolis's Mayor Joseph Hogsett is part of the coalition. Read about it Here.

(Mayor Hogsett visits our university frequently. I got to meet him last Fall at a football game. He visited our "tailgater." Seems like a pretty cool guy. After shaking hands and introducing myself, he wanted to know all about the Market Research and Analysis class that I teach. I did get a chance to tell him that I was an advisor to LGBT students. Things have been better in Indy lately. )