Twice-impeached former president Trump vows to ban healthcare for trans kids and “consequences” for LGBTQ-friendly teachers
The Dunce thinks the “radical Left” invented trans people a few years ago.
Read all about it on lgbtqnation.com.
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the existence of this “human” disgusts me
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Someday Funnies: Happy Groundhog Day!
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| Wearing New York & Company (on Stana’s Wish List) |
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| Milton Berle femulating with other femulators in a 1995 episode of television’s Roseanne. |
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Stana Status
I had my first physical therapy session at home yesterday and the therapist said I was making good progress.
I am still surprised about the level of pain I am enduring... not much at all and certainly much less than I expected.
Again, I want to thank you all for the positive thoughts you have been sending my way.
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To shave or not to shave, fleece-lined tights may be the answer
By Paula Gaikowski
Shaving my legs was a milestone and rite of passage on my transgender journey. There has been nothing more liberating and cathartic than looking down and seeing a pair of women’s legs surface after shaving for the first time.
Wearing double hose
However, that wasn’t always possible. I used to worry about what people would say in the summertime if I had shaved my legs. That was an unfounded concern; nobody noticed and if they did, it’s not really any of their business.
Typically, I trimmed my leg hair with clippers and then wear nude color opaque dance tights and wear black pantyhose over them. It worked fine but is very thick and also very warm in the summer.
So I understand the issue and the other day noticed the perfect solution. Ladies in Europe needed a solution to wearing skirts in their frigid winters. Transparent fleece-lined tights are thick fleece lined tights that look like you are wearing black sheer hose. They come in extra heavy and warm, but also in thinner styles.
They can be ordered from a variety of sources on the web, however, it seems black is the most common color with other options being coffee and gray. The product is popular in Asia so many of the vendors are located there. I did find this website offering plus size and tall sizes
Nothing can make you feel more feminine than freshly shaved legs and a new pair of your favorite sheer stockings. However, if it’s cold outside or if you can’t shave, perhaps this will help you get out and about and let that girl loose.
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| Wearing Saylor |
Sailors femulating aboard S.S. Caronia, circa 1955
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Stana Status
Had Physical Therapy today. Therapist says I am doing very good and I can stop using the walker and use a cane instead. She added that by next week, I probably won’t even need the cane!
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Someday Funnies: Mother of the Model
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| Source: Rue La La |
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| Jim Bailey femulating in the 1987 film Penitentiary III. You can view the film on YouTube. |
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Someday Funnies: Watch the Birdie
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| Wearing Bebe |
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| Colin Baker |
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Are Hormones the Culprit?
It was a large class, all female with approximately 10% asking questions. The question and answer session lasted 90 minutes. I don’t recall any unique questions coming my way, but during the session, I discovered a new possible reason for my desire to crossdress: hormones.
The question that led to this had something to do with what changes the transsexuals experienced after taking hormones. One transwoman mentioned that before taking hormones, viewing a movie like Love Story had no effect, but after taking hormones, she cried like a baby viewing such a film. The other two transwomen agreed that they experienced the same change.
In response, I said that I never took hormones, but all my life, I cried viewing a movie like Love Story.
The professor suggested that perhaps I should be tested by an endocrinologist. I assumed he was inferring that maybe I had an imbalance of hormones, i.e., too many female hormones and/or not enough male hormones. If that is true then it might explain other things… like my feminine breasts and my feminine traits.
Since puberty, my breasts have resembled a female’s breasts rather than a male’s and are able to nearly fill a B cup.
And since forever, I have had feminine mannerisms.
I never affected feminine mannerisms; they are natural to me. My most prominent feminine mannerisms are the way I talked and gestured.
I am very soft-spoken. I use words and phrases in ways that are typically female. And when I talk, I gesture with my hands in a very feminine manner often touching the other person I am conversing with. (That last one really freaks me out when I am in boy mode and touch somebody. I do it unconsciously and after I do it, I worry about a negative reaction from the other person, but so far I have been lucky and no one has called me on it.)
I never saw an endocrinologist, so I don’t know the truth about my hormones. But it would not surprise me that they are naturally balanced in a feminine way.
That’s not to say that some nurturing was not responsible, too. My mother raised me, while my father was absent much of the time while I was growing up (Dad worked two jobs and as much overtime as possible to make ends meet). Lacking a male model, I took after my mother in a lot of ways. So both nurture and nature may have come into play.
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| Wearing Venus |
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| Jeffrey Carlson (right) femulating on television’s All My Children. |
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Someday Funnies: Secrets of His Success
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| Charli D'Amelio at the 2023 Grammys |
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| Kelsey Musgraves at the 2023 Grammys |
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| Sheryl Crow at the 2023 Grammys |
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| Shania Twain at the 2023 Grammys |
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| Michal Rudas femulating Shania Twain on Polish television’s Twoja Twarz Brzmi Znajomo (Your Face Sounds Familiar). |
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J. Harrison Ghee: A New Normal?
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| J. Harrison Ghee |
I could not help noticing that Ghee was dressed as a boy more or less (a tunic over some kind of bifurcated bottom), had a boy haircut, but was wearing makeup including lipstick and full eye makeup. I was intrigued.
My first thought was that Ghee was wearing the makeup to promote the musical. But that did not make sense; if he was promoting the musical, why not go all the way and wear a wig, dress, heels, etc.
Then it occurred to me that maybe Ghee was trans.
I was not familiar with Ghee, so I did some research and discovered that according to Wikipedia, Ghee “is non-binary and uses he/they pronouns.” And Ghee has been doing drag for quite awhile playing Lola in Kinky Boots and Velma Kelly in Chicago.
So is Ghee representing a new normal? Has crossdressing become so normal and accepted that one can go out and about like Ghee – full “feminine” makeup while otherwise dressed as a male (more or less)? I like to think so, but I have my doubts. It may work in Manhattan and Hollywood, but how will it go over in Podunk?
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| Wearing Bebe |
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| J. Harrison Ghee femulating in a stage production of Kinky Boots. |
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Someday Funnies: Stay Stylish
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| Wearing Venus |
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| Wally Brown and Alan Carney femulating in the 1944 film Girl Rush. |
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Changing Interests
Over the years, the more I femulated, the more I paid attention to feminine things. Since there are only so many hours in a day, my new attention to feminine things resulted in less time for other things that previously received my attention.
My radio hobby definitely took a hit and I certainly did not follow my favorite sports teams as closely as I did in the past. I did not drop my interest in those things completely, but given a choice to attend a radio convention or a crossdresser convention, I would choose the latter over the former.
One solution I found is to mix femulating with your old interests. For example, I have attended radio conventions en femme numerous times. I have not gone to Fenway Park en femme yet, but if the opportunity arises...
And so it goes.
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| Wearing Boston Proper |
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| Barry Scott femulating in the 1970 British film Goodbye Gemini. |
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Someday Funnies: 1 is better than 2
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| Wearing Alexia Admor |
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| World War II allied Prisoners of War femulating on stage at Stalag XXID in Posen, Poland. |
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What’s Going On?
My Physical Therapist (PT) says I am well ahead of the curve regarding recovery. Pain is mild and infrequent and I am getting around without assistance except when I go up and down stairs when I use a crutch.
PT believes that when I see my doctor/surgeon on Monday, he will probably give me the green light to start driving again (just two weeks after surgery). My fear that I would have difficulty depressing my Subaru’s clutch with my new knee proved to be just fear – my therapist insisted that we test it yesterday and there was no pain using the clutch.
I am a just little anxious about what my leg will look like when the bandages are removed on Monday.
And so it goes.
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Someday Funnies
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| Wearing Badgley Mischka |
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| Alex Saxon femulating in a 2015 episode of Ray Donovan. |
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Getting Serious
When I say “it’s the little things that count,” I am referring to all the little things that together comprise a femulator. Reminds me of a trip years ago to attend First Event in the Boston area. Elaine was driving and I was riding shotgun en femme. I thought I looked pretty good and while I was admiring the false nails on my fingers, I noticed that (horrors!), I forgot to shave my hands! Luckily my electric shaver was accessible in my luggage in the back seat and I was able to fix that little thing before we arrived at the First Event hotel.
Checking into a hotel or using a credit card is another little thing. Most credit card companies will issue additional cards under the same account for other family members. So get an additional card issued to yourself, but just use the initial of your first name with your last name. For example, John Smith would get an additional credit card issued for “J Smith” to use when en femme. But that only works if John Smith goes female as Joan, Jean, Jackie, or some other female name starting with the letter J. (Lucky me, my male and female first names both start with the letter S.)
If you wear eyeglasses, next time buy a pair with unisex frames or if you can afford it, buy a second pair with a feminine frame. With an eyeglass prescription in hand, you can order eyeglasses online at very reasonable prices. (I recently bought a pair of girly glasses online for about $50.)
If you need eyeglasses for reading, you can buy inexpensive reading glasses with very feminine frames just about anywhere (the local pharmacy, Walmart, etc). Also, you can buy woman's sunglasses just about anywhere, too.
Voila!
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| Wearing Roller Rabbit |
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| Raimu femulating in the 1933 French film Théodore et Cie. |
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Someday Funnies: Not a Funny Valentine
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| Wearing New York & Company |
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| Ed Jones, David Cerda, Adrian Hadlock and Grant Drager femulating on stage in The Golden Girls: The Lost Episodes. |
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We Are Tootsie
By Paula Gaikowski
Back in 1982, there was a scarcity of information on transgender persons and crossdressing. So when I saw the Life magazine article about the upcoming release of the movie Tootsie, I was thrilled. 
Paula channeling her inner Tootsie
(1999)
Although Tootsie is not a movie about transgender persons or even crossdressing, it’s a movie about a man walking in the shoes of a woman both literally and metaphorically. The man, Michael Dorsey, is a narcissist and arrogant actor who no one will hire. He unintentionally sheds this toxic behavior and finds what life is like from a woman’s point of view and learns a lot about himself and the world we live in.
The role of Dorothy Michaels (Michael’s femme name) was also life-changing for Dustin Hoffman. Here he’s speaking about the first time he saw Dorothy in the mirror.
“It was at that moment I had an epiphany and I went home and started crying, talking to my wife. I said I have to make this picture and she said, ‘Why?’ And I said, ‘Because I think I am an interesting woman when I look at myself on screen. And I know that if I met myself at a party, I would never talk to that character because she doesn’t fulfill physically the demands that we’re brought up to think women have to have.”
Before Hoffman would even consider making the movie, he asked the studio to spend money on makeup and wardrobe to see if he could realistically look like a woman. He spent weeks in wardrobe working on a look and yes, I am jealous too! He wanted to look like an authentic woman in his words, “I wanted to walk down the streets of New York and not have anyone think ‘hey that’s a guy.’
In my opinion he was successful, the attention to detail was there, padded hips, breast forms, shaving and neutral makeup. Seeing all this, it spoke one thing to me as I sat there and read that Life magazine article, I could do this! I could make myself look like a woman and experience life as a woman. It would be years before I ventured out as Paula but make no mistake, Tootsie had a huge effect on me; for me too it was life changing.
Dustin Hoffman sure looked fantastic as Dorothy. I understand he went out as Dorothy to restaurants, shops and businesses to see how people reacted. He seemed to have a zeal for this, much as we do. I wonder sometimes: civilian or non-civilian?
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| Wearing Joseph Ribkoff |
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| San Francisco professional femulator D'Arcy Drollinger |
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Someday Funnies: Cross Dressing Appropriately
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| Wearing Ulla Johnson |
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| Alex Newell on the blue carpet at the Independent Spirit Awards |
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Who’s Next?
First they came for the transgenders, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not transgender.
Then they came for the drag queens, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a drag queen.
Then they came for gay marriages, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not in a gay marriage.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
The Republican/MAGA/Evangelical gang are hell-bent on cleansing the USA of all vestiges of LGBQT+. You do not have to look far to see they are passing laws and issuing rules and regulations against transgender kids, transgender adults and drag queens and they are counting on the Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the decision that legalized gay marriage.
Who’s next?
Do you know that crossdressing was illegal in most jurisdictions of the USA in the past?
According to Wikipedia:
...from 1840 forward, United States saw state and city laws forbidding people from appearing in public while dressed in clothes that do not associate with their assigned sex. The goal of this wave of policies was to create a tool that would enforce a normative gender narrative, targeting multiple gender identities across the gender spectrum. With the progression of time, styles, and societal trends, it became even more difficult to draw the line between what was cross-dressing or not. Only recently have these laws changed. As recently as 2011, it was still possible for a man to get arrested for “impersonating a woman” — a vestige of the 19th century laws. Even with this, legal issues surrounding cross-dressing perpetuated all throughout the mid 20th century. During this time period, police would often reference laws that did not exist or laws that have been repealed in order to target the LGBTQ+ community.
Although those laws have been repealed in many jurisdictions, they may still be on the books in other jurisdictions. In either case, in the current political/social climate, it would not be hard to reenact those laws or begin enforcing those laws that are still on the books.
The bathroom laws that have been passed in some jurisdictions are just the tip of the bucket that is full of potential anti-crossdressing legislation that the Republican/MAGA/Evangelical gang have ready when they decide to go after us.
Be scared, very scared! And don't just sit on your hands while they go after our LGBTQ+ sisters and brothers. Speak up and vote that gang out of office.
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| Wearing Nanette Lepore |
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| A ladies’ room selfie |
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