The TGForum Monday Edition! It’s a thrill packed edition that fully deserves this honor from the Academy. The first item in this award winning edition is This Week In Transgenderism. This action packed feature is the work of News Editor Ronnie Rho. Miss Rho has been nominated two times. This is her first Award. TWIT this week features links to stories about things like the Asian TG supermodel contest, T girls tossed out of a supper club in Australia, Dave Chappelle being a dick, XBox welcoming non-straight players, and a whole lot more. Don’t miss this award winning TWIT!

In the music category the winner is Pamela DeGroff’s conclusion of her interview with concert pianist Sara Buechner, a short feature she titled Perpetual Change — Sara Buechner, Part 2. Sara Buechner is a fascinating person and a very talented musician who you should know all about. How to learn? Read Perpetual Change!

In the documentary category the award goes to the TransActive column by Christine Beatty. Christine once worked in the sex trade while trying to finance a transition. How did that work out? Her award winning TransActive: The Prostitution Proposition tells all. Don’t miss it!

From the reality show category comes Linda Jensen, Living The Life We Want. Miss Jensen has changed the names and done some work on the dialogue but the situation portrayed will tug at your heart strings as a group of transgendered ladies explore the lives they want. along with cocktails and some dinner. Don’t miss Living The Life We Want.

And lastly for this Monday Edition we bring you the winner in the makeup category, a review of Dr. Douglas Ousterhout’s book, Facial Feminization Surgery, A Guide for the Transgendered Woman. Altering your face with surgery is the ultimate makeover so it’s easy to see why this review by contributing writer Gina Vizavi is the winner. If you’re contemplating having a bit shaved off that jaw line, having that bump on your nose smoothed out or perhaps grinding down those brow ridges Dr. Ousterhout’s book is a must read. Learn all about it in Gina’s review.

And that brings our TGF Monday Edition to a close. We’d like to thank all the stars who presented awards, our publisher and , of course, all the little people behind the scenery. See you all at the after awards show parties!

Gender-bending frogs in the northeast.  Another eatery tells CDs they’re not welcome.  A TG beauty pageant in the States. Lady Gaga was described as the “new Madonna“, and already we’ve got a “new Lady Gaga“, and she likes t-girls.  What will reality TV do for the advance of American transgenders?  A TS wedding photographer is publicly embarrassed.  Nothing changes in Maine.  More charges against a Texas cop.  Buddhist, transgendered, and proud.  Xbox welcomes non-straight players.  Sanctuary for a Malaysia MtF.  Dave Chappelle may be funny, but he’s also a jerk.  And a doozy of a TWIT of the Week.

All this and much, much more inside this edition of TWIT Notes.

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This month, we conclude our interview with classical music musician Sara Davis Buechner. She recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of her professional debut in NYC. During her career, she has performed extensively in the United States and abroad, has released several recordings, and is currently an Associate Professor of Piano and Piano Literature at the University of British Columbia. As well as being an incredibly gifted musician, she is a remarkable person who has overcome her share of adversity. She has some insightful things to say in this second installment of our TGForum interview with her. (more…)