PTG 2016-02.Pub

1 Pretty T Girls The Magazine for the most beautiful girls in the world A publication of Pretty T Girls Yahoo group 2 In This Issue Page Editorial By: Barbara Jean 3 Compromising with Your Spouse. By: Teri Lynn 5 Teri Lee Ryan 8 Biggest Mistakes You Make Shaving Your Legs 11 A No Makeup Makeup Look in 5 Steps 12 How to Fix The Most Regrettable Makeup Mistakes 14 Makeup Mistakes Your Making In Photos and How to Fix Them 15 The Adventures of Judy Sometimes 17 Módhnóirí 18 Tasi’s Musings 21 Fiction Story– Uncorked, Introduction and Chapter 1 26 Ten Transgender Historical Figures Worthy of Film 30 Humor 35 Angels In The Centerfold 36 Mellissa’s Tips 38 Diane Pemberton Sikes 44 10 Colors You Should Wear More Often 47 Tasi’s Fashion 50 Pencil Skirts For Every Shape 53 Lucille Sorella 55 The History Of Breast Implants 58 From The Kitchen 63 How To Cook Almost Anything In Your Crock Pot 66 14 Cooking Hacks Every Cook Should Know 68 A Yelp to Help Trans People Find A Doctor 73 How To Maximize Closet Space 74 Let’s Get Together 77 The Gossip Fence 81 Shop Till You Drop 91 Calendar 104 3 Stop! Police! An Editorial by: Barbara Jean In Houston the equal rights ordinance failed, opponents calling it a bathroom bill and their rally cry was no men in women’s bathrooms. In California opponents circulated a petition to put a bill on the 2016 ballot that would fine us $4000 for using the bathroom that did not conform to our birthsex. Fortunately they failed to gather enough signatures to put their pill on the ballot. In Indiana a lawmaker theresubmits a bill that would throw us in jail for using the “wrong” bathroom. Public schools throughout our nations are finding themselves faced with the threat of losing title IX funding unless they allow us to use bathrooms locker rooms and showers that align with our gender rather than our birth sex. Presidential candidate Ben Carson proposes that there should be separate bathrooms for the transgender. (a throwback to pre civil right era when there were separate bathrooms for white people and for colored people) Of course our opponents claim that in allowing us to use the bathroom/locker room or shower that matches our gender will allow some man to dress as a woman, claim to be transgender just so theycan go into a woman’s restroom to either peak under the door ormolest some woman or little girl. Yet where state or local laws do allow us to use the restroom that aligns with our gender there has never been such a thing happen. We of the transgender community have never created such a problem and no non transgender pervert have ever pretended to be transgender for such a purpose. Our fight to these bills was to have our transgender brothers, the female to Male transgender proceed to use ladies rooms. We especially wanted those that very much looked more like a man than a woman. Many a times at sporting events, concerts and other events with a large number of people it is somewhat common to see women use the men’s restroom due to long lines to the ladies room. I wonder how many of them would find themselves being arrested or fined for using the “wrong” restroom? Many universities and some cities have created or changed single occupancy restroom to be gender neutral, and a few even have required all single occupancy restrooms to be made gender neutral. Many of us in the transgender community would actually prefer to use these restrooms. Just as others want privacy and do not wish to display their body to others neither do we. But requiring us to use such restrooms, showers or locker rooms amounts to the same thing as requiring colored people to use different restrooms than white people used. I often wonder why here in the United States and some other countries we have great problem with being in any form of undress in front of someone of the opposite sex, but not in front of 4 someone of the same sex. Are we all ashamed of our bodies? Many nations in Europe do not have the same hang-ups and nudityis not frowned on like it is here. Parents who object to a transgender MtF using the same shower/locker room as their daughter, how would they react if it was a known lesbianseeing their daughter in thesamestate of undress? Over the past year the transgender communityhas made great strides in gaining public acceptance and understanding. But as we cansee the battle is not over, we still have a long wayto go to be fullyaccepted and treated with equality. http://www.sisterhouse.net/style-contest-2016/. Sister House, in collaboration with Choies, a trendy but moderately priced women’s shop for clothing and accessories, is sponsoring a style contest for ladies in the transgender and crossdressing community. Details are here http://www.sisterhouse.net/style-contest-2016/. Prizes will be awarded for the three winners. Style reflects who you are, both your inner and outer self. I am proud of the many stylish ladies in our community and would like to showcase that woman within us. Please join in. 5 COMPROMISING WITH YOUR SPOUSE Teri Lynn [email protected] Ladies, I've been reading thestruggles manyof you have with having to decide whether cross-dressing is more important than your marriage. As many of you know, I pretty much live as a woman 24/7 --- with exceptions. Years ago, when I told my wife about my cross-dressing, we had to make some difficult decisions. First, my wife consulted with professionals aboutmysituation. She was told that it is not curable,so she had two choices - stay and tolerate/accept it, or leave. And tolerating or accepting is not the same as embracing cross-dressing. With that information in-hand, there was no question in hermind - she would stay, but it wasn't all roses. We made a commitment to each other - "for better or for worse, in sickness and in health", etc., and she and I intended to honor that commitment because it wasn't a thoughtless act when we entered into it. I must mention, that just because the professionals toldmywife that my cross-dressing was not curable, and she didn't throw me out, did not mean that she opened her arms and embraced it. Not knowing anything about cross-dressing, other than it was not curable, left her withmanyquestions. Fortunately, before I told her about my cross-dressing, I was on the Web and found Tri- Ess. Theyhad some good information,which Igotfor mywife to read. In those days,no one else had any information available. Oh yes, I started "dressing" way before Al Gore invented the Internet, but that was insecret, at home and years later, when I got married, I thought that I would be cured of my desires; and for eight years I "dressed" only when my wife would take the kids to visit their grandparents. Sometimes, because of work, I couldn't be gone over the weekends and, if I wasn't called out to work, that allowed me a day on which to "dress", with no one at home. By the time I told my wife about y cross-dressing, we had children, so my wife had some rules about my cross-dressing. First, she did not want me to cross-dress when the children were present. Secondly, she wanted me to keep my cross-dressing private. We lived in a very small, conservative community, so she did not want the neighbors to know. For many years, I "dressed" only on Fridays when I was off and had to be changed before the kids got home from school. And, because my wife was afraid that if she went out with me, someone might spot us and tell our kids or our friends, my cross-dressing was a solo adventure for many years. 6 During those years, I relied heavily upon the support I received from attending local Tri-Ess meetings. In fact, for many years, Tri-Ess meeting were the onlyoutings I had in public. Fast forward. - After 15 years of living in our small rural community, we moved back to the city. A few years later, our kids were in college and eventuallyout on their own. Nowmylife changed. I retired. With the kids gone and not having to worry about someone at work confronting me on a Monday morning at work, about having seen me in public, cross-dressed, my world opened up. Let me interject here, that in Law Enforcement, cross-dressing was an absolute NO NO! (Still is.) Lesbians were accepted because they were viewed as being tough by acting macho. They were considered as "one of the boys". Cross-dressers were viewed as sissies, weaklings, faggots, etc., etc. I caught on quickly to that attitude by overhearing co-workers discussing something they saw on TV, about cross-dressers. Usually, what they saw was cross-dressers on Jerry Springer, or Maury's show and those CD's were seldom a good example of CD's. I certainlywouldn't go on TVand let people seeme inmyboyunderwear and show them how I transform myself into fem-mode, as the CD's on these shows did. Comments I heard in the office, after one of these shows included: "Those sickos ought to be shot." "Someone should cut their b---s off".

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