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Halloween is about to take its course, and transsexuals in Chicago are having their share of the horrific spotlight as the city hosts “The Rocky Horror Show” in Mercury Theatre.

This 1975 cult classic is a musical written by Richard O’Brien about two regular people who meet up with Dr. Frank-N-Furter and his people from Transsexual Transylvania. Here is an excerpt from a review I read from Sun-Times News Group:

But the campy sci-fi gothic isn’t for everyone. With its nudity, everything-goes sexuality and raunchy style, it will outrage the sensitive theatergoer and thrill “Rocky Horror Picture Show” fans.

As with the film version, aficionados of this campy favorite arrived at the show dressed in fishnet nylons, high heels and heavy black makeup, doing their best to look like their favorite characters.

From their seats, they sang along with the performers, screamed their approval at certain phrases and yelled their personal comments.

Obviously, they were having a good time with this nostalgic shocker that, in light of the three decades that have passed since the film came out, doesn’t seem so shocking anymore.

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Aside from his recurring role in the hit TV-series Nip/Tuck, drag queen/actor William Belli offers a lighter side of being a transsexual in this tranny video series Tranny McGuyver. A short description of Tranny McGuvyer is featured on YouTube:

Tranny McGuyver is a comedy conceived by Willam Belli (best known as Cherry Peck on Nip/Tuck) and Patty Wortham. Imagine the writer of Police Academy got sexually assaulted/donkey punched until he wrote a 6 foot drag queen into his script and you’ve got this show. Willam Belli fills out a lady’s cop jumpsuit and bravely takes on the ingenue role despite his lifelong cross to bear known as his penis.

You could view the video by clicking here.

The change of times also calls for a change in sex, or the acceptance of it. Here’s an excerpt from an article I read from VietNamNet regarding sex operations to transsexuals:

The Ministry of Health will allow local qualified clinics to perform transsexual surgeries, according to the draft decree on redefining sexuality that has been submitted to the government for consideration.

So, does this report decree a step gained by the shemale community towards social acceptance? Perhaps, but only time will tell!

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Finally, a transsexual in network television! “Dirty Sexy Money” ABC’s latest series about the New York family who are not happy with their disposition despite their wealth, features a transgender named Carmelita, played by real-life shemale Candis Cayne. What makes the character different from other transsexuals in film and television is that she brings a fuller perspective of being part of such a sex group. More importantly, the character strives for public consciousness with regard to transgenders, that they are not different than you really think they are. Below is an excerpt from the article:

Amid the bawdiness, the soft-spoken Miriam barely figures as a character. She’s more like the quintessential object, so naturally female-looking that it’s hard to watch the show without staring at her nether regions. It’s tempting to feel sorry for her - and a little chilling, given the history of violence against transgender people, when she says at one point that “I need someone to protect me.” But it’s also likely that she doesn’t mind what the producers are doing; her chief ambition appears to be fame. After the series ran in England, she did a stint as a guest visitor on “Big Brother Australia.”

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Although normally seen as an entertainment and comedy spectacle, transsexual beauty pageants are enjoying a serious push in the Philippines. The Amazing Philippine Theater in Cebu and Boracay has set the stage for different acts and performances by the country’s talented transsexuals. However, the beauty pageant is a different route taken by the Theater to draw in more shemales into their company. Below is an excerpt from the article:

Because of the thrust of the company and its perseverance, the shows, as well as the pageant, are gaining support.

“The pleasure of discovering new kinds of cultural and unique forms of entertainment gives way to the promotion of our tourism industry. Likewise, as other communities are made aware of this distinctive form of entertainment, it contributes to the expansion of our culture and traditions,” said Pasay City mayor Wenceslao B. Trinidad, whose government is supporting the venture.

Likewise Victoria Garcia-Fuentes, head of the City Tourism and Cultural Development Office of Pasay City, expressed optimism: “The Amazing brand makes us proud in Pasay to be called their home. We are glad to be a part of this unique form of entertainment, which is truly world-class and so unique on their own.”

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Awareness to the transsexual culture has been given media mileage in India when Star Vijay will feature a half-hour chat show focusing on the lives of trannies. The weekly show will be hosted by Rose, a postgraduate in biomedical science and who also happens to be a transgender. Still in its pre-production stages, the show plans to inform the viewers regarding the shemale culture by using drama, comedy, and lots of emotion as vehicles to their socially-charged content. Below is an excerpt from the article:

The programme will throw light on who the transgenders are and the medical reasons behind the transforma tion of a person born as a man into a woman. Apart from this, the show will have transgenders speaking about their experience of growing up and humiliation by family and the society.

Psychiatrists will be present in the show to explain queries on sexual orientation and gender disparity. The show would also have a transgender and her family narrating their story of denial and accep tance appealing to the public to accept their children who are born transgenders and not reject them.

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Transsexuals may want to become an Iranian now that the Ayatollah Khomeini presupposed in his fatwa that gender crisis is a medicine condition and must be treated with gender reassignment surgery. However, homosexuals are not as openly accepted in their society compared to these transgenders, as the Ayatollah said in his recent visit in New York that Iran do not have even a homosexual residing in their country. A short excerpt of the article explaining this uneven policy is found below:

The statement from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad about no homosexuals existing in his country might be considered political propaganda, but it is also a possibility that many gays and lesbians in Iran elect to undergo gender reassignment surgery in order to avoid being arrested and put to death for homosexuality. Iran’s position on gender identity disorder may look progressive to some Western minds, but the statement by the President concerning homosexual orientation, something that seems to exist everywhere else on the globe, is either lying, boasting or willful ignorance.

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The D-List has got wind of news of a former pop singer getting hitched with a transsexual.

Dead or Alive singer, Pete Burns, married for a second time in London today. Pete was previously married to a chick for 25 years. This time he’s giving sausage a try. He married Michael Simpson in a geisha get-up. The two broke up briefly last year, but got back together.

Pete said he’s still friends with his ex-wife even though he cheated on her ass with his current wife. SCANDAL!

Eff Eva Longoria. This is THE celebrity wedding. What a beautiful bride and by “beautiful” I mean trannylicious.

Here’s a perfect tranny gift for the tranny addict. This is courtesy of Leah Foust Graphic Design Studio.

Yep, can you also see the possibilities?

From 365gay.com, a transsexual woman claims that she was forced out of her job as as trucker after she began to transition and is seeking thousands of dollars in compensation.

Vikki-Marie Gaynor, 37, has been a transport trailer driver since she was a teen but when she began to transition and started to appear as a female she says her shifts were cut, was subjected to verbal abuse, and eventually had to quit her job.

After a tour with the British military Gaynor returned to driving a truck and got a job through the Blue Arrow recruitment agency with Exel Europe, a company tied to international courier DHL.

At first, she tells the Daily Mail, she got along well with her bosses and other workers. But that all changed when she began to transition.

“When I first started I was a respected driver, I turned up for work on time and did my job very professionally. My bosses knew me as Mike and had no idea I was a transsexual,” she told the paper.

“But almost as soon as I told them I was changing my name to Vikki-Marie and entering the transition stage of my gender reassignment, things changed. I started getting hurtful comments and my shifts started being cancelled without warning. In the end I realized I could no longer go to work, it was too painful.”

Gaynor names both Exel and Blue Arrow in the case. If she is successful the companies could be forced to pay out close to $1-million.

“I have been treated in an horrendous manner by my employers,” Gaynor told the Daily Mail.

“It is not right that I should be forced out of my job simply because I want to live as a woman and wear the clothes I was born to wear.”