It’s that day again. Monday, Monday, can’t trust that day. At least that’s what The Mamas and The Popas said. But whether you can trust it or not we’re back at Monday and you can trust that we’re delivering a new Monday Edition of TGForum. We begin with the column you know you need, This Week In Transgenderism by News Editor Ronnie Rho. Someone asked last week just where Ronnie finds all the news that she crams into TWIT. Just in case you didn’t read her response she said, “This nifty place called the “Internet.” Ronnie has sifted through blogs, clicked on hundreds of links and possibly even used the Bing search engine to come up with another thrill packed TWIT. She’s got it all, from RuPaul’s online Dragulator, to a former New Orleans Saints quarterback (and a lot of other Saints fans) in drag, a story about a drag show with an entire cast of disabled queens, an almost rape of a teenage TG, Kevin Kline’s new movie in which he has a crossdressing roommate, the crossdressing cagefighter, Justin Timberlake in a bra and much, much more. It’s all in TWIT.

Next up is Christine Beatty’s TransActive column. Last month Christine talked about the Transsexual Taliban and their hard core vision of what a true transsexual is all about. This month she offers the best way to counter any damage done by the T.T. in a column called Activism 101. It’s an introductory course in how to be a transgender activist with all the things you should do and those you shouldn’t. We’re all TG activists when we go out and mingle with the common folk who know only one gender expression so don’t think that only people who go on television and radio or to visit legislators are advocates. If you’re out and about then you’re spreading the message that transgender people are every bit as normal as anyone else. Christine will help you get your talking points in order if you find yourself getting questioned about why you’re wearing that dress. Don’t miss Activism 101.

Miss Linda Jensen has filed another story that might be too good to be true. She goes to the big city to meet a CD friend she met online and hears a story about a “gay” fraternity house, loads of crossdressing — and then Linda and her online friend hookup. Is it all too good to be true? That’s what Linda says but you’ll have to read A ‘T-girl’ in ΓΑΨ Fraternity to make up your mind. True or not, it’s entertaining. (Erotica alert!)

That’s our TGF Monday Edition for February 8, 2010. If you live in the mid Atlantic states I hope you’ve got your cars dug out. I’m planning on staying in until the snow melts. After all, I’ve got lady’s clothing and a camera.

Jin Xing

Can you deduct your SRS on your income taxes? Apparently so! Creating Change conference fires up activists in Dallas. Make your own high heel shoes if you can’t find them in your size and style.  There she is: Miss’d America.  When the saints come marching in, they probably won’t be this stylish. RuPaul is still the hardest working drag queen in show business. Oh, sure, you’ll get on American Idol, but all your friends are going to laugh at you.  iTrans in Austin. Justin Timberlake femmes up.  And making fun of Ann Coulter’s perceived masculinity is not funny.

And three TWITs in North Carolina are stealing electronics.  All this and a lot more in this edition of TWIT Notes!

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“You can catch more flies with honey than you can with vinegar.” —  Ancient folk wisdom

“Profanity and obscenity entitle people who don’t want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.” —  Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Those of you who read last month’s TransActive may recall the tiny clique of angry transwomen who call themselves “Classic” or “real” transsexuals but whom I call the Transsexual Taliban. Their apparent mission is to very narrowly define the boundaries of “true” transsexual women and to divorce themselves from all self-identified transgender people, the transgender movement, the LGBT community and, especially, crossdressers. They want to be special, to distance themselves from everybody else, to try to win acceptance for their group. They have one enemy though worse than all of the others they would list: themselves. Or, more exactly, their anger and unreasonableness. (more…)