Recent Entries

• Trans Events in Manchester

  by Pauline Smith April 22, 2016
  Here are a series of contact and support groups and their meetings for trans people in the Greater Manchester area. Some are weekly and some are monthly like #TRANS MCR.  This blog is mainly a cut and paste job from the LGBT Foundation website. Here are the links  http://lgbt.foundation/i...

• TDOV - Trans Day of Visibility

  by Pauline Smith March 31, 2016
  Today is TDOV - or Trans Day of Visibility.   What does that mean for you and I?? It gives you the chance to take a selfie of yourself with the downloaded selfie from the LGBT Foundation (see below)...go to the header that says Download our social media pack on the link or later down this pag...
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• Sally Swings RIP

  by Pauline Smith March 5, 2016
  It is with great sadness that I announce that Sally Swings passed away at the young age of 50 this week.   Sally was not a close friend, but she was a great hugger and a lovely person who worked together with Dee Selecta to make the Gatehouse and Dee's Dressing service a great success over th...
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• Goodbye

  by Pauline Smith February 28, 2016
  It is time for me to leave Transtastic in my roles as site administrator and site moderator.   After 5 years working together with Beckie and several different moderators from April Harvey to Amanda and Liz - and fighting in the early days constant spam attacks from Afghanistan and China, onc...
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• Transphobia

  by Pauline Smith January 29, 2016
  Being accepted as transgendered in British society is an ongoing process, which is sometimes 2 steps forwards and 1 step back and sometimes sadly it is 1 step forward and 2 backwards.   I have been ill with the flu for about a week but I have sort of glanced at things on my Ipad and found out...
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• Roy Orbison

  by Pauline Smith January 5, 2016
    Looking back I was very lucky to be a teenager in the 1960s and see Roy Orbison live, he was top of the bill and the Beatles were the supporting act when I saw him. And now the cinema on Oxford Road Manchester, where I saw them play is an office block for bean counters. I also have to say ...
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• The Sex Change Spitfire Ace

  by Pauline Smith October 28, 2015
    A Channel 4 programme to watch on catch up about Roberta Cowell, Britain's first man to become a woman; and equally important about Michael Dillon the first woman in the world to transition as a man.     This was in the 1940s for Michael and the 1950s for Betty, only just afte...
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• Transgender Women are not Women

  by Pauline Smith October 24, 2015
  Germaine Greer, well known Feminist author, fighter for women's lib and ex professor at Cambridge and Warwick Universities, has created "a furore" by saying that transgendered women are not women. For those who have no idea who she is I have included a Wiki profile.   An article was published...
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• The challenges of being transgender and over 60

  by Pauline Smith October 12, 2015
    This is an article from yesterday's BBC Magazine (11 October 2015) about being transgender and over 60. As many of you know I am a long way past my first flushed of girlhood - these days I am nearer to 70 than 60; though inside I still feel about 25. Being trans is never easy and my generat...
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• Transgender Stories with a difference

  by Pauline Smith September 11, 2015
    This blog can never be all inclusive, but hopefully it shows you how much transgender coverage there has been in one liberal newspaper over the past few days; in a month where we have the first trans comedy with a trans actress in a starring role in the UK - Boy meets Girl on the BBC - for m...
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• Transwomen transitioning on the BBC

  by Pauline Smith August 27, 2015
  This is a film made by BBC Scotland charting the lives of 5 trans women of different ages and backgrounds. They called it Transsexual Stories, I guess to get publicity.   I was recommended to watch it by my ex wife, who said that she now understands us much better. I found it very moving and ...
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• LGBT News

  by Pauline Smith July 25, 2015
    Its funny (peculiar not ha ha) that I have a special item on BBC News on my ipad for Gay Rights but I cannot do the same on a Microsoft laptop. So these links are brought after cutting and pasting via 2 devices.   In a week where Obama lectured Africa on it's attitudes to gay rights a...
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