Tranny Transformer and Mr. December

The other day, I decided to attend a “Meet & Greet” in honor of the festive season and for the benefit of charity.  GF was in the process of getting ready for her holiday baking, so this was a solo flight.

One of the ways they were raising money for their charity was to offer a photo-op with their Mr. December Santa in exchange for a donation.  As I had every intention of taking them up on that offer, I donned my little red corset and a white crinoline.  As this was a store that sells corsets and the like, I thought that would be a most appropriate outfit for the photo.

Reality Bites

Anyway, I also had some shopping to do several blocks from the party, so I parked somewhere in the middle.  It was night, and cold, and I knew I’d have to walk, so I had a long-ish coat on to hide my somewhat provocative outfit, which had no place out on the street.

No matter… the first person I passed was a street drunk who, as he staggered past me, said, “Hey, Tranny!”

Great!  Just what I needed.  My shoes were a bit loose, making it hard to walk, and I had to hold my coat closed, so my posture may not have been perfect, but I didn’t realize I looked that bad so as to be clocked at 20 paces in the dark by a drunk.

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Holiday Wishes

Not to wait til the last minute, I wanted to take a moment to wish all of you Merry Christmas, or if you don’t celebrate that, then a Happy Holiday season.

Here’s hoping you get lots of great prezzies – and if not, then be good to yourself and buy one for yourself.  Then, when you open it, look in the mirror as you smile and say, “Oh my!  It’s exactly what I wanted!”

bra shopping

Bra Shopping

Another first for me… I went to a lingerie store and picked out a couple of bras to try on.

Normally, I shop in department stores for this kind of thing, and just make a guess, then take them home and try them and return them if necessary.  Also, I usually let GF pay, so she can be the one to return them.

Anyway, there was a cute girl dressed in the lingerie store’s own PJ’s in charge of the fitting area.  As I approached, she asked me how many items I had, and then, noting the bras, asked their size.  Thereafter, she escorted me to my change room, telling me that she had been trained in fitting bras, and would be only to happy to check the fit for me once I had tried them on.

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Sad State of Porn

Perhaps I was naive, but I never used to have a problem with pornography, especially where, rather than being exploited themselves, adult women had the power, if they so chose, to exploit others’ interest in their bodies for their own gain. But, whatever my impressions in my younger, more masculine and more innocent days, I’m convinced that today’s porn represents a clear and present danger to the fabric of society.

My attention was turned to this industry when I received an unsolicited offer of a contract from a pornographer.  That led me to research, which in turn led me to nauseous disgust.

The porn industry is dealing with many challenges these days, not the least of which is the availability of free XXX movies online, in any flavor imaginable.

The industry – or at least a certain segment of it – has responded by trying to up the ante by dreaming up ever more extreme versions of perversion – as if this will make the free clips obsolete, like last year’s smartphone.

Any sane person would realize this is nonsense.  Anything they do will be online and free in short order, and force them to push the line even further; there is no way to keep up.

But, much more importantly, they are degrading humanity. 

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Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing

Travelling sometimes means that it is harder to be in the right clothes at the right time, and the other day was one such time.

Being at the door of a store full of yummy girly clothes, I just had to go in, even though I was totally in guy mode.

No matter… it seems my shame – at least in this respect – has vanished.  I was picking up items here and there and posing with them in front of public mirrors, and then went so far as to get myself a dressing room and try some stuff on.

Tried on shoes too.

The sales staff never batted an eye…

Giving Thanks

I believe that Thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday, and, more to the point, a wonderful philosophy.  It seems to me that the happiest people make thanks-giving a daily way of life.

We should never take for granted the things that we have, even if there is so much more that we may want.  Nothing is ever achieved alone, so there is always someone to thank, or failing all else, just thank your lucky stars.

Food in our mouths, health in our bodies, peace in our part of the world, maybe a little love in our lives – just to name a few things – these are essential features of our lives that we just assume will be there for us.

That’s awfully presumptuous. 

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Red Cap Redhead

Picked up a morning coffee at Stumptown Roasters (yet another terrific NYC cafe!) before heading to Penn Station to catch a train to Philadelphia cheesesteaks!

Oh, yes.  I do follow my stomach (unless there are more tantalizing temptations to distract me. 😉 )

So, there we are, having boarded the train with our two large valises, when GF gives me “the look.”  Yes, dear, I know…

Suddenly, it is this girl’s duty to heave those suitcases onto the overhead rack – and from the stares that came my way, I was either being perceived as an incredibly able-bodied woman or, well, you know…

Needle in a Haystack

I was searching online last night for a bar or nightlife in Manhattan that welcomed t-girls, and came across an interesting, but I guess not altogether surprising, phenomenon:

There is pretty well no way to search for anything tgirl without getting utterly mucked up and mired in pornography and prostitution.  The search engines have so much of that crap tied to tgirl, or any synonym, that a search is pretty much useless.

The same, incidentally, is true of blogs.

The vast majority of so-called tgirl blogs are simply ads for porn sites.

Is this an indication of something wrong with us?  Or what?

lest we forget

Not All Fun and Games – Lest We Forget

We often take our liberties for granted, especially those of us who live where tolerance is common and sensitivity is expected.

But there is a time to reflect on the price that people have paid in places where differences are justification for oppression, or in times that were not so enlightened as these.

Exhibit #1  Memorializing 2011

Memorializing 2011 lists trans people murdered around the world.

I am struck by the fact that these people died simply for doing what I do any time I feel like it with nary a second thought.

Not unnoticed, at least by me, is the marked preference among assailants for the intimate personal touch of killing imparted by the use of a knife rather than a gun.

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transgender day of remembrance

Remembrance

We in Canada are proud to say that in our nation’s capital, during the weekend of Transgender Remembrance Day (November 18 – 20), there will be a flag raising at the Ottawa Police Headquarters, honoring the trans community specifically.

It is ground-breaking to be recognized on our own, outside of the GLBT umbrella, of which we seem so often to be a marginal part.

Further significance attaches to the fact that it is the police that are doing this for us, despite the mistrust of many in the trans community of the police.

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