Trans Sex Highlights

Ah life, you never know what it’s going to bring. This blog has been silent for a couple of weeks while I went through my own relationship ups and downs. Even though I love adding to this blog, trans sex was just a little too personal.

Since I’ve been off the map, and consequently so has Sexnerd, LSW, I believe that this is an opportunity to highlight some of the awesome news stories that have flown across  cyberspace this last month. Enjoy your  Top 5 Trans Sex highlights!

1. Buck Angel tells it like it is – get your plumbing checked!

More Bang for Your Buck: Reviving the Vadge—A Public Cervix Announcement

2. Mr. Transman 2010: Sponsored by Original Plumbing

Man on the Street: Mr. Trans Man 2010

3. Lesbian Herstory: On Our Backs

This porn mag was trans inclusive and I believe paved the way for trans sex visibility

NSFW Sunday: What Does a Lesbian Sex Magazine Look Like?

4. University of Pennsylvania student health insurance now includes transition coverage

While this may not at first appear trans sex related – think about how many folks (ok not that many but it’s a start) might be able to use these services to feel more comfortable in their body!

U. adds transgender insurance

Student Insurance Plan will now cover costs of gender-confirmation process up to $50,000

5. Amos Mac in Next Magazine

What The FTM?!

What highlights do you think I’m missing?

From Sugarbutch Chronicles: Porn Review

Review: Roulette Dirty South (DVD)

from Sugarbutch Chronicles by Sinclair

It didn’t take me long to watch Courtney Trouble’s new film Roulette Dirty South, I ripped it open the minute I got it in the mail from the production company, Reel Queer Productions. I’ve been looking forward to it since I heard Dylan Ryan was back with her real-life boyfriend Trucker Cash (since they made one of my favorite scenes of all time). And when I saw the trailer, I was thrilled:

Popout

Looks dirty, edgy, colorful, and fun—and it is. The film also stars April Flores (aka Fatty D) and Trouble and Pepper Sox, with fantastic music (as you hear in the trailer, Courtney Trouble has a great ear for these things—she was just nominated in the 2010 AVN Awards for Best Music Soundtrack for her former film Speakeasy) by Yes Please, Flexions, Jenny Hoyston in California Lightening, and Tami Hart. Roulette Dirty South also introduces a few other new performers (I particularly liked Charlie’s long brown hair all over her face while giving a blow job. Yes, very nice image).

I mostly watched this for the scene with Dylan and Trucker. I also really liked Pepper Sox—she was damn hot when she got fucked (I will have to find her other scenes. I think she’s Courtney’s partner?). I would watch Dylan’s scene again, Trucker fucks her ass toward the end of it (oops! I don’t mean to give it away) and I definitely liked that, but I doubt I’ll rewatch the rest of the scenes. Not quite my style. Still, the film is gritty and vibrant, and I’m glad to have seen it.

Dylan Ryan & Trucker Cash, photo by Courtney Trouble

Remembers.

Below is a blog from feministing.com that talks about the Transgender Day of Remembrance.

But I’d also like us to take a moment today to not only remember the lives that trans folks have lost, but also the lives that they’ve lived.

Remember fabulous queens, quirky queers, beautiful femmes, handsome butches, daring transmen, strong women, and the collective courage and love of life that our community embodies on a daily basis.

With warmth, love, and pride,

Sexnerd

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Feministing: Transgender Day of Remembrance 2009

Today is the 11th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance. This day was created as a time to grieve trans and gender non-conforming people killed over the past year because of fear and hatred. It also serves as a time to raise awareness about violence against trans folks. The event was started by Gwendolyn Ann Smith following the murder of Rita Hester on November 28, 1998. Every year since the day’s founding vigils and memorial events have been held in the US and increasingly all over the world.

This year the TGEU Trans Murder Monitoring project TDOR 2009 update has collected information about over 160 people killed because of other people’s violent reaction to their trans presentation or identity. These numbers represent only those people we know about. We don’t know how many trans folks were actually murdered this year – our identities are so rarely recognized and there is still so little awareness about trans issues and the violence trans folks face that it is safe to say many murders of trans folks went unreported.

Complete article…

TimeOut NY says – Date these trans folks!

Maybe I shouldn’t be surprised that this came out of TimeOut NY, it does kind of seem like their thing.  But what I think is REALLY awesome is the title – the use of “trans folks.” I’ve been using this language for several years as a non-pathologizing way to talk about a group of people that aren’t actually one community but many many communities. So cheers to TimeOut NY and check out these hotties!

http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/sex-dating/80216/date-these-trans-folks/3.html

Things That Make You Gay

We can now add the elderly foursome, The Golden Girls, to the list:

http://christwire.org/2009/10/the-golden-girls-how-one-tv-show-turned-a-generation-of-american-boys-into-homosexuals/