Beginning in January 2011, access to TGForum will be free, as will access to our Chat room, Bulletin Board and every other TGF resource. You will still need to be registered if you want to make comments, but there will be no fee involved. We will be doing a redesign of the site between now and January so there may be slight service interruptions at times. We will also be upgrading the system software that runs TGF and hope to bring you new and more up to date services and resources later in the year. For example, those of you with Facebook and Twitter accounts can be notified automatically whenever there is a new post at TGF.

Also beginning in mid-December we will no longer provide email service nor personal web hosting. There are many free services on the Net that can be used and we simply can no longer afford the service fees nor the maintenance. So, if you have a personal website at TGF and/or use the TGF email service, you have until December 15th to find a new service. All email and websites will be terminated on December 16th.

One other item. If you have a Pictorial somewhere on TGForum that you would not want the general public to see, then let either myself or Angela Garnder know and we will delete that Pictorial. If you have a Personal Ad that you don’t want public, then please delete it before January 2011.

What we’re not changing is the best group of writers at any TG site on the Net. TGF will continue to publish weekly as we have since its inception in 1994.

Best Regards
JoAnn Roberts
Publisher/TGForum

Good morning my gentle flowers of TG femmedom. It’s that time of the week once again. We present for your edification and enlightenment our highly acclaimed TGForum Monday Edition. We begin with that bastion of the Monday Edition, The Week In Transgenderism, assembled by our trustworthy News Editor Ronnie Rho. From Turkish T girls hooking for a living to the Texas TG group that’s running TOTwK to spark dialogue, to the British intelligence agent who was possibly murdered for being TG, and a whole lot more, always turn to TWIT.

Pamela DeGroff joins us this week with her Perpetual Change column. This month she has an interview with the Arizona TG group Too Much Information. She’s written about TMI before and in this column she updates us on what the band has been doing. Don’t miss Perpetual Change.

TG History is included in the Monday Edition and our resident historian Michelle Moore has managed to find a TG connection to an item that you just wouldn’t associate TGs with. If you told us that a crossdresser had invented the bra or designed the first stiletto pump we would instantly accept it as a fact. When Michelle starts to give us the history of the fountain pen we pause to look at her askance. But, it seems that she’s got the straight poop once again. Don’t miss TG History — The Fountain Pen.

Back in the ’80s there was a little get together for TGs in the Pocono Mountains of this great state of Pennsylvania. It was produced by our own JoAnn Roberts and was called Paradise in The Poconos. Linda Jensen attended one of these Pocono TG getaways and after someone reminded her about the experience she has been writing about it for TGF. Join her for How I Lost the Miss Congeniality Contest, Part II and find out how she managed to avoid that honor.

That dear readers is our offering for this Monday Edition. Enjoy!

Turkish Sex Worker

Another state changes the rules for driver’s licenses for transsexuals.  A guilty plea in a federal civil rights case.  How did a TG candidate fare in Florida’s primary election?  A new advertisement raises some hackles.  One of the first playwrights to tackle transsexuality talks about that work, and his newest effort.  Numbers game: it’s all about the statistics this week.  A TG group to screen “TOTwK” to get people talking about things.  A close-up look at Turkish sex workers, and the justification for prostitution.  Was a British intelligence analyst transgendered?  Was he murdered because he was?  The flap over a runner’s gender continues to bubble.

And no dog molesters this week, but a slew of people who’ve each set back general acceptance of us by about 18 months in our TWITs of the Week.

This and much more awaits you in this edition of TWIT Notes!

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