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Post awesome, beautiful, amazing, etc trans women ITT.

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Pose's Michaela Ja Rodriguez

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ite2vY5qihc
That's Kim Petras, front-and-center.
I knew of her back when she was only famous for being trans (she was the youngest German person to undergo bottom surgery, took puberty blockers as a tween, etc. etc.), an interest that was driven by a deep (and totally cis) curiosity about trans women.
She used to have a YouTube channel where she would just talk about her life and occasionally cover a song, and the comments would be full of people saying what a great voice she had and how she should make her own music.

And, well, here she is, singing about the joy of breasts, while I'm growing my own pair. She performed this song live at the EMAs in Hungary, which def rustled some jimmies (and rightly so. Fuck the fascists that run that country), but the fucked up her mic so the sound quality isn't great (major props to her for singing live though).

Fine, I'll bump this, because I want to talk about this beauty, then this topic can die in peace:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfCS01MkbIY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvleI-_qivA
Amelia Zheanna Erose "Z" Huff, with her fancy degree in music theory, voice dysphoria, and a hunger for knowledge, reforged her voice from masculine to feminine, and now produces reams of free videos to help other trans people do the same, discussing everything from vocal exercises to sound theory to the biomechanics of the human voice, and using her unnerving vocal range in order to highlight dos and don'ts. She also makes strange and beautiful microtonal music, and can be seen on Instagram wearing elf ears and jamming on completely incomprehensible synths.
She embodies goals in so many different ways.

Me I'm an awesome trans woman

So are all my romantic partners, every one is trans and cute and sexy as heck

ElatedVenusaur posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ite2vY5qihc
That's Kim Petras, front-and-center.
I knew of her back when she was only famous for being trans (she was the youngest German person to undergo bottom surgery, took puberty blockers as a tween, etc. etc.), an interest that was driven by a deep (and totally cis) curiosity about trans women.
She used to have a YouTube channel where she would just talk about her life and occasionally cover a song, and the comments would be full of people saying what a great voice she had and how she should make her own music.

And, well, here she is, singing about the joy of breasts, while I'm growing my own pair. She performed this song live at the EMAs in Hungary, which def rustled some jimmies (and rightly so. Fuck the fascists that run that country), but the fucked up her mic so the sound quality isn't great (major props to her for singing live though).

oh wow i remember seeing her on tv like...~15 years ago?
didn't know she made music

Connie Sgarbossa of American Metalcore band Seeyouspacecowboy

"The End to a Brief Moment of Lasting Intimacy"
https://youtu.be/Pl6zBGcIt8s

I like trans girls.

ElatedVenusaur posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ite2vY5qihc
That's Kim Petras, front-and-center.
I knew of her back when she was only famous for being trans (she was the youngest German person to undergo bottom surgery, took puberty blockers as a tween, etc. etc.), an interest that was driven by a deep (and totally cis) curiosity about trans women.
She used to have a YouTube channel where she would just talk about her life and occasionally cover a song, and the comments would be full of people saying what a great voice she had and how she should make her own music.

And, well, here she is, singing about the joy of breasts, while I'm growing my own pair. She performed this song live at the EMAs in Hungary, which def rustled some jimmies (and rightly so. Fuck the fascists that run that country), but the fucked up her mic so the sound quality isn't great (major props to her for singing live though).

Love Kim!

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Kerri Colby aka the new Green M&M

Nobody cares!

ColdOne666 posted...

Nobody cares!

Clearly you do.

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Marsha P. Johnson was a leading figure in the Stonewall Riots(though she, by her own admission, wasn't there when it started) and a lifelong advocate and activist for trans rights and also involved in anti-AIDs protest group ACT UP.
The "P." stood for "pay it no mind"- Marsha was referring to her gender. She was a drag queen and a transvestite, and didn't identify as a man, though it does not seem she ID'd as a woman either. Since Marsha isn't here, it's best we pay all that no mind, as she said, and focus on giving thanks for her bravery, advocacy, and undying spirit.

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Natalie Wynn

ElatedVenusaur posted...

The "P." stood for "pay it no mind"- Marsha was referring to her gender.

I never knew that! Very nice.

https://www.liesjournal.net/

ElatedVenusaur posted...

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Marsha P. Johnson was a leading figure in the Stonewall Riots(though she, by her own admission, wasn't there when it started) and a lifelong advocate and activist for trans rights and also involved in anti-AIDs protest group ACT UP.
The "P." stood for "pay it no mind"- Marsha was referring to her gender. She was a drag queen and a transvestite, and didn't identify as a man, though it does not seem she ID'd as a woman either. Since Marsha isn't here, it's best we pay all that no mind, as she said, and focus on giving thanks for her bravery, advocacy, and undying spirit.

Touching post. Thank you.

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Georgina Beyer MNZM JP (born November 1957) is a New Zealand politician and former Labour Party Member of Parliament. She was the world's first openly transgender mayor, as well as the world's first openly transgender Member of Parliament. She is also among a very small number of former sex workers to hold political office.

Why this topic in particular?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21ZfGPp-Ves
I mentioned Z before, but this is an excellent example of her talents. And also how she teaches. This video is specifically designed to help you, the viewer, to differentiate between pitch and resonance so that you can better judge your own efforts in modulating your voice, however it is you're doing it.
Hint: pitch is secondary.

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I had no idea Kim Petras is a trans woman

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Danica Roem was the first trans woman elected to Virginia House of Delegates. She represents HD13, and she initially ran against 13-term incumbent Bob Marshall in 2017, who proudly described himself as a "chief homophobe" and engaged in misogynistic and transphobic attacks on Del. Roem, but ultimately lost. Roem has held the seat ever since, and has advocated for LGBTQ+ rights and causes in the House of Delegates, as well as the rights and advancement of women, racial and ethnic minorities, and workers.

KainWind posted...

I had no idea Kim Petras is a trans woman

She's a treasure tbh
https://youtu.be/5CPeHQHAQyo

ElatedVenusaur posted...

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https://twitter.com/pwcdanica
Danica Roem was the first trans woman elected to Virginia House of Delegates. She represents HD13, and she initially ran against 13-term incumbent Bob Marshall in 2017, who proudly described himself as a "chief homophobe" and engaged in misogynistic and transphobic attacks on Del. Roem, but ultimately lost. Roem has held the seat ever since, and has advocated for LGBTQ+ rights and causes in the House of Delegates, as well as the rights and advancement of women, racial and ethnic minorities, and workers.

We need more like her.

wow, a topic all about me

greyfox747 posted...

wow, a topic all about me

I def appreciate you girl. And @gunplagirl .

Trans women are fine as hell, I don't know why but I find them more attractive.

ElatedVenusaur posted...

I def appreciate you girl.

simp

greyfox747 posted...

simp

You know it.
I doubt I can even post it, but check Kim's Twitter.
https://twitter.com/kimpetras
She going OFF. Too profane for me to link directly lol.

<3

ElatedVenusaur posted...

You know it.
I doubt I can even post it, but check Kim's Twitter.
https://twitter.com/kimpetras
She going OFF. Too profane for me to link directly lol.

She's pretty

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Youtuber Samantha Lux

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Leyna Bloom is an American actress, model, dancer, and activist. She has attracted press as a trailblazer for transgender women in the entertainment and fashion industries.
In 2019, Bloom made her feature film acting debut in Port Authority, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. She has modeled for several brands and fashion designers, including Jeremy Scott, and has appeared in magazines such as Vogue India and Sports Illustrated.

HairyQueen posted...

Post awesome, beautiful, amazing, etc trans women ITT.

Couldn't find any ITT.

ColdOne666 posted...

Couldn't find any ITT.

tagged

Derwood posted...

tagged

As having taste and standards? Thank you for the compliment.

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Christine Jorgensen served in the US Army in WW2, went to school, learned that bottom surgery was a thing, and went to Denmark to get it started. She is one of the first recorded Americans to have received the triple triad of trans female bottom surgery: orchiectomy, penectomy, and vaginoplasty. She reported eagerly to friends via letter: "As you can see by the enclosed photos, taken just before the operation, I have changed a great deal. But it is the other changes that are so much more important. Remember the shy, miserable person who left America? Well, that person is no more and, as you can see, I'm in marvelous spirits."* Her bravery in undergoing what were then extremely novel procedures helped push those operations forward.
She also spoke openly about her experiences, as bedeviled by transphobia as she was (for example, she was unable to legally marry her would-be husband Howard Knox, because her birth certificate listed her as male, and Howard lost his job as soon as the engagement was announced). She was a nightclub entertainer until she died of cancer in 1989.

*Ever since I started hormones, people have been telling *me* I looked happier, even sometimes people I wasn't out to yet. And I certainly feel happier, so this little excerpt spoke to me. Nothing feels better than becoming the person you were always meant to be.

ColdOne666 posted...

As having taste and standards? Thank you for the compliment.

no

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Lynn Ann Conway (born January 2, 1938) is an American computer scientist, electrical engineer, inventor, and transgender activist.
Conway is notable for a number of pioneering achievements. She worked at IBM in the 1960s and is credited with the invention of generalized dynamic instruction handling, a key advance used in out-of-order execution, used by most modern computer processors to improve performance. She is also widely-known for the Mead-Conway VLSI chip design revolution in very large scale integrated (VLSI) microchip design. That revolution spread rapidly through the research universities and computing industries during the 1980s, incubating an emerging electronic design automation industry, spawning the modern 'foundry' infrastructure for chip design and production, and triggering a rush of impactful high-tech startups in the 1980s and 1990s.

I just would love to say this topic is lovely. But it's....really white lol. It's okay, I'm guilty of it too, so let's get some color up in here! Because this is a list of 7(well, 6 new ones: we've already been introduced to Marsha P. Johnson), I'll post them one-by-one, but if you want to skip ahead, I'm including the link to all these women.
https://www.queerevents.ca/queer-corner/blog/trans-poc-activists
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Cece McDonald is a prison reform activist. She was charged with manslaughter after stabbing a man who assaulted her and a friend to death. Facing a possible 20 year sentence, McDonald took a plea deal, and was housed in men's prisons, where she was repeatedly assaulted, abused and placed into solitary confinement. She was released after serving 19 months in prison, and a documentary (Free Cece) was made about her harrowing experience with our broken criminal justice system.

I'd say this thread is about 40% non-white. Hardly "overly white"

Amy Schneider is pretty amazing.

ElatedVenusaur posted...

But it's....really white lol

I've posted 7 people so far, and 4 are POC. And 6 out of the 13 before Cece have been POC. I'm all for broadening the scope, but that's not the most accurate IMO.

ElatedVenusaur posted...

Cece McDonald is a prison reform activist. She was charged with manslaughter after stabbing a man who assaulted her and a friend to death. Facing a possible 20 year sentence, McDonald took a plea deal, and was housed in men's prisons, where she was repeatedly assaulted, abused and placed into solitary confinement. She was released after serving 19 months in prison, and a documentary (Free Cece) was made about her harrowing experience with our broken criminal justice system.

Thank you for posting her!

Sariana21 posted...

Amy Schneider is pretty amazing.

She really is. I was going to post her, but I think most people know about her already.

HairyQueen posted...

I've posted 7 people so far, and 4 are POC. And 6 out of the 13 before Cece have been POC. I'm all for broadening the scope, but that's not the most accurate IMO.

I am factually wrong, I'm sorry. Not sure where I was coming from with that, honestly.

ElatedVenusaur posted...

I am factually wrong, I'm sorry. Not sure where I was coming from with that, honestly.

No worries at all! I'm actually super glad you're participating in this topic. Please don't stop :D