Conservatives have spent countless hours, dollars and tears trying to combat the wicked gay agenda. Considering their "sacrifice" for the greater American good, one would expect they'd get some sort of payback. And they are - just not the payback they hoped. There's a new agenda on the horizon and it's more horrifying than any homo.

Conservative Linda Harvey "explains":

Our kids are lost in a free-fall culture, and are being sold poison packaged as perfume. As if foisting "gay" rights on them wasn't enough, now they are supposed to accept the artificial change of a person's biological sex as a good thing. The "transgendered" agenda is suddenly emerging everywhere.

Oh the humanity!!!

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If you think it's hard out there for a pimp, consider the harsh reality of being a tranny hooker. Not only do you have to scour the streets for a turned-on John, but then you have to explain your penis. Regrettably, not so many people are down with a so-called chick-with-a-dick and trans folk face more violent crime than their biologically gendered counterparts.

As such, many trans working girls choose to place ads in weekly rags - at least then they know their clients won't be some crazed lunatic. Unfortunately, they're not all trained copy men (women?). Good thing copyranter offers his expertise free-of-charge:

I'm offering my expert copywriting services to all Transgendered, Transsexual, SheMale, post-op, pre-op, mid-op, etc. Escorts. The challenge of having to juxtapose dissimilar phrases like "Golden Skin" and "Hung" in a small space ad targeted at such a hard-to-nail-down demographic is a huge turn-on. To get things started, I'll dip my toes into the head space:
• Full Lips. Fuller Girth.
• Legs To Die For. All Three Of Them.
• Cloud Nine Inches.
• Sugar Kissing + Candy Cane Licking.

Genius! So genius, in fact, we're having a bit of trouble choosing our favorite - you know, just in case we ever decide to get some tits and work a corner. We're thinking "Cloud Nine Inches". Although, that may be false advertising. Tear, tear…

• Vacation's can be a refreshing experience. So can shopping. And there ain't no item more refreshing than a finely pressed white shirt. Yeah, they can get a little boring, but Refinery 29's got the skinny on Surface to Air's new "Vent" shirt. It's anything but…

• Talk about unmotherly love: Britain's Zara Care has lost custody of her two-year old son and three-year daughter children after forcing them to fight on camera. As the little boy punched his old sis, 21-year old Care repeatedly called him a "wimp" and a "bloody faggot". We call her a shitting shit mum.

• Scary Spice also trotted her tot in front of the camera, only these were for OK! Too bad Eddie Murphy couldn't make it, because the cover acts as a familial introduction. Or does it?

• Human Rights Campaign wants to make sure your trans coming out is a happy trans coming out.

• Robots! They're more common (and scarier) than you think.

• Kryptonite! Scientists have discovered a mineral resembling kryptonite. It's official. Reality's become a comic book.

• Thats right folks! You can own a piece of history - hooker-turned-activist Mike Jones is auctioning off his old massage table. And, no, he's not keeping the money - it's going to charity. The current asking price's $500. Someone out there must be willing to top that…get it? [eBay]

• We wanted to post the music video for M's New Wave classic, "Pop Muzik", but some schmuck disabled its embedding code. So you're just going to have to watch it the new fashioned way. [YouTube]

• Speaking of YouTube - Turkey lifted its silly ban. [The Age]

• GLAAD has officially entered the war against Ann Coulter, but have the tides already turned? [San Francisco Chronicle]

• Patrick Letellier may not like running, but that didn't stop him from trotting along to fight AIDS. [MSNBC]

• Anglican priest Shawn Sanford Beck may have lost his job for supporting gay-marriage, but he's not about to change his mind. Well, done, Beck. Sorry about the job thing, though. Think about it this way - you're a total martyr. [Winnipeg Sun]

• Fuck! We totally missed trans activist and professor Jenny Boylan's appearance on All My Children! [TMZ]

• Egads! A British man lost sight in one eye after a gay attack. [Gay UK]

• Down-low: the myth that would not die… [Slate]

Spain's left-leaning parliament has passed a law that will allow transsexuals to change their name and gender without undergoing gender reassignment surgery. Basque News reports:

The new legislation requires transsexuals to present an official medical diagnosis stating a clinically proven case of gender dysfunction and to have undergone appropriate treatment for two years before changes in identity documents can be performed.

Pretty convenient, no?

Baptist minister and former Spring Arbor University professor Julie "Formerly John" Nemecek knew the end was nigh, but she had no idea it would come so soon.

Her employers at the Michigan-based, Christian-leaning university told him they would not renew her contract past June after Nemecek announced his plans to start living as a woman.

As part of their agreement, SAU made Nemecek sign a contract agreeing not to appear on campus as a woman. Now, after Nemecek had her name legally changed to Julie, the university's cut him loose, insisting Nemecek violated the aforementioned contract.

In light of this decision, Nemecek's out on her pretty little ass.

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ABC soap All My Children got a bit of flack when they hired Jeffrey Carlson to play their now-legendary character, rockstar Zarf (who has since become Zoe). And with good reason - it's not like there aren't any tranny actors out there. Shit, when was the last time Kim Basinger had a gig?

Anyway, those of you who scoffed will no doubt be happy to hear that they've hired Colby professor, activist and known transexual Jenny Boylan to appear in a whopping one episode. New Now Next reports that post-op Zarf (we'll never be able to accept "Zoe") attends a tranny support group and Boylan offer a bit of gender-bending guidance. Ain't that grand?

When not acting and, of course, teaching, Boylan does a bit of writing - she's published the critically-acclaimed She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders. It's a great read, homies.

We'd like to dedicate this little diddy to our tranny friends. "Let Me Die A Woman" comes to us from the New Zealand-based The Phoenix Foundation's 2004 full-length, Horse Power.

We can't help but wonder if they got it from the Doris Wishman 1978 doco on revolutionary sex-change surgeon, Dr. Leo Wollman of the same name.

God bless Rupert Murdoch and his tabbie-newspaper spawn, The New York Post. Where else would you find such an eloquent, intricate and subtle headlining image?

Right off the bat "Free to be He-She" recalls the 70's children's cult classic, Free To Be… You and Me, thus giving it a broader cultural appeal. But it's only after examining the story can one really appreciate the title's real nuance…

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Our friend Michael Jenson from AfterElton sent us a link to his harangue against late night talker, Jimmy Kimmel. Apparently Jensen didn't take too kindly to some of Kimmel's comments on transexuals while interviewing Ugly Betty's Rebecca Romijn. Jensen writes:

…[Kimmel] reverted to 5th grade boy behavior while interviewing Rebecca Romijn who plays a transgendered character on Ugly Betty. Kimmel mocked transgendered people by showing photos of various transsexuals like Rene Richards.

Jensen then takes aim at Kimmel's assertion that trannies can't be as feminine as Romijn. For her part, Romijn says she's met more feminine trannies, to which Kimmel says, "No you haven't".

We don't necessarily think Kimmel's transphobic. We just think he's a douche. And not just for this - he's always been a douche and, most likely, he'll always be a douche. But, that's just our opinion. Why not watch the video and decide for yourself.

(Even though he's, again, a douche, we still love his send up of homo-hating Tim Hardaway, starring homo-hero, George Takei.)

After 48 years of dreaming, Largo Florida, City Manager Steve Stanton has announced that he's started taking hormones to prepare for his trannie transformation into Susan Stanton. The St. Petersburg Times reports:

Married with a 13-year-old son, Stanton said he has thought of becoming a woman since childhood. He said he has gone out in public as a woman in recent years, but only in places like Orlando, Atlanta and Chicago.
…
Stanton said he is "terrified" about the effect of the news on his family, but he wouldn't comment on the future of his marriage. His wife, Donna, could not be reached for comment.

"I love my wife," he said. "She's been superb. She's the best thing that's ever happened to me."

Let's hope she love you, too.

Hearing the news, many of Stanton's political peers expressed disbelief and shock, but were supportive of his life changing sex change. Of course, not everyone's spreading good cheer. Baptist pastor Ron Sanders had this to say:

He's not going to be a man, and he's not going to be a female. He's going to be an 'it.' It's going to be the most sorrowful decision he has ever made.

Apparently Sanders's a psychic as well as a bigot.

Thailand's estimated to have the world's largest concentration of transsexuals. What a perfect place, then, for Sony BMG to construct the world's first trannie girl band: Venus Flytrap. That's right: Venus Flytrap, as in the flesh eating plant known for snapping tighter than a freshly constructed pussy.

The company auditioned over 100,000 thai trannies, but narrowed it down to five. After a year-long singing dancing boot camp, the women emerged as the trannie version of The Spice Girls, uniform prefix and all.

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We've had an email correspondence with artist Del LaGrace Volcano for about two months now. We originally contacted him for The Boundaries Issue, but, as happens, things didn't work out. Sitting down to play The Emotions Issue, we knew we couldn't pull it off without his help.

Our entire mission with this issue revolves around the idea that love is not one set things - it's a melange, a collage, a medley of emotions, sentiments and, at times, constraints. Volcano's work addresses the space between gender, sexuality and everything in between.

On his website, Volcano writes,

As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic traces of my body… An intentional mutation and intersex by design, (as opposed to diagnosis), in order to distinguish my journey from the thousands of intersex individuals who have had their 'ambiguous' bodies mutilated and disfigured in a misguided attempt at 'normalization'. I believe in crossing the line as many times as it takes to build a bridge we can all walk across.

Like The Power Issue subject, Claude Cahun - who, you'll see, Volcano cites as an inspiration - Volcano's work seeks not simply to test the viewer's perspective, but to extend it. Break it, even. As in love, one walks away from Volcano's work having learned something new. Or, we should hope so, because no life's worth living if you don't open yourself to new experiences, right?

Lucky for us, Volcano opened himself up to us. See what he has to say about the all-pervasive nature of androgyny, "coming out" as "intersex", and his sexually frustrating teenage years, after the jump…

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Two days ago we relayed that New York's Fox 5 News had reported that retail chain Loehmann's settled the discrimination suit filed a transgender woman named Jane Galla (pictured). We didn't have the link, so we put that freaky picture of a model with a hand coming out of her hair. Well, now we have a link, so here it is.

The discount chain will now allow trannies to use the dressing room of their choice. Of the resolution, Galla said:

I’m very happy that Loehmann’s has taken appropriate steps to ensure that transgender shoppers are treated with the same respect and dignity as everyone else.

Like all New Yorkers, I appreciate a good bargain, but the price is too high if I have to endure discrimination when I go shopping.

Unless, of course, there's a really, really good sale.

Previously: Tranny Injustice!