1 Pretty T Girls January 2017 The Magazine for the most beautiful girls in the world A publication of Pretty T Girls Yahoo group 2 3 In This Issue PAGE Editorial by: Barbara Jean 4 5 Transgender Americans On the Hardships of Transitioning 5 This Trans Couple is Teaching Their Children About Gender 9 Transgender History Part 2 10 7 Makeup Trends Women Over 40 Shouldn’t Be Afraid To Try 13 10 Life Changing Makeup Tricks 18 Basic Nail Rules At New York Fashion Week 20 Teri Lee Ryan 21 The Adventures of Judy Sometimes 23 Módhnóirí 24 A Few Photo Tips From Barbara Jean 26 10 Years by: Heather 27 Musings 30 Humor 37 Angels In The Centerfold 38 Mellissa’s Tips 42 Diana Sikes 48 Tall Women 55 Tasi’s Fashion –A Return to Elegance 56 Friday Charm School 60 Ladylike Laws 62 Lucille Sorella 63 The History of The Bra 66 From The Kitchen 68 5 Marinades Easy to Remember 71 Go To Meetings 73 The Gossip Fence 77 Shop Till You Drop- 87 Calendar 99 4 A Game of Chess An Editorial by: Barbara Jean North Carolina has been in the spotlight ever since March of last year. In March the city of Charlotte passed a non discrimination ordinance that included the LGBT. For those of us who are transgender it included public accommodation. Immediatelythe North Carolina legislature in special session passed a law that prohibited the cities from passing any non discrimination ordinances and struck down Charlotte ordinance. Known as House Bill 2 (HB2) it ignited a national firestorm with entertainers, sporting events and businesses boycotting North Carolina. As a result North Carolina lost well over six hundred million dollars in revenue and many people in North Carolina lost personal income as a result of the lack of work that resulted by this boycott. North Carolina said it would repeal HB2 if Charlotte repealed it’s non discrimination ordinance. Charlotte said no. Now a game of chicken begins. Who will cave in first? In December the city of Charlotte voted to repeal it’s non discrimination ordinance on the condition that North Carolina repealed HB2. North Carolina 1, City of Charlotte 0. Why did the city of Charlotte give in, especially since the republican governor Pat McCrory lost the election to democrat Roy Cooper who vowed to repeal HB2? The boycotts against North Carolina I think hurt the city of Charlotte far more than it did the rest of the state of North Carolina. But whynot wait another month when democrat RoyCooper takes office? Sadly the legislature of North Carolina is still republican and they hold a veto proof majority. Even though some of the republicans in the legislature have said they were willing to vote to repeal HB2 even without the condition that Charlotte repeal it’s ordinance, the question comes would there be enough to make a majorityvote to repeal? Of course with the repeal of HB2 the city of Charlotte would be again free to pass another non discrimination ordinance, but it is unlikelythat any new ordinance will include the LGBT, and if we are included one can bet public accommodations will not be included in the new ordinance. Transgender 0. The cityof Charlotte stood byit’s end of the bargain but did the North Carolina legislature? NO theydecided that theywere going to keep HB2 on the books. Now North Carolina 2, Cityof Charlotte 0 So where do we stand in this game now? Either this month or next the supreme court is expected to hear oral arguments in the case of Gavin Grimm, a transgender boy who is suing 5 for the right to use the boys bathroom at school. At this time the supreme court is short one justice and it is expected that President Trump will select a conservative to replace the late Anthony Scalia. The question also comes if the case is heard before or after a new justice is seated. The Obama administration has ruled that the transgender were covered by Title VII and Title IX of the civil rights code and some of the lower federal courts have agreed. It is expected that the Trump administration will rule that we are not covered. As a result the case of Gavin Grimm will determine if we are or are not covered. With a republican president and congress still being in control by the republicans it can be expected that we will not see anynew gains in LGBT rights for at least two years and wemay alsoseemanyof the previous gains that we hadmade lost. It’s a game of chess and we the transgender are the pawns. 5 Transgender Americans on the Hardships of Transitioning, Then and Now Stories from an emerging population's earliest generation. Transgender men andwomen have lived openly for decades in America. Most of them transitioned before it was remotely acceptable to the wider culture—and somade possible the social transformation in gender identity that we are seeing today. The three women and two men on these pages lived much of their lives as one sex and then, along with thousands of others, have lived long, accomplished (and dangerous) lives as another. They are a comment on the abiding nature of thehuman impulse to change sexual identity (at a moment when it's almost regarded as a fad) and also emblematic of those who did so when it was somuch harder. Jamison Green, 66 Speaker and consultant in San Francisco; President, World Professional Association for Transgender Health; Author of Becoming a Visible Man. Transitioned in 1988. "I havea couple of theories about the fascination with male-to-female people, and the first one is: We are such a paternalistic and male-focused culture that a man willing to cut off his dick is sort of fascinating to people. But then if a woman wants to becomea man—well, that's expected. Why wouldn't a woman want tobeaman? I really do think it's just that stupidly basic. For a long time, the official statistic was that one in 6 thirty thousand men would be a male-to-female transsexual and one in a hundred thousand women would become a female-to-male transsexual, though I don't think that's true. What happens is a lot of female-to-male peoplehistorically didn't get the genital reconstruction, so they wouldn't get counted. The technology wasn't there yet, and it was very expensive. It wasn't until Iwas in my mid-thirties that I even saw someone whowent through [female-to-male reassignment surgery]. I finally realized that it was possible, and what pushed me over the line [to begin the transition]was having kids. It was the eighties, when the world saw me as a masculine woman, and my partner and Iwere part of the lesbian baby boom. Wewere just thrilled to havethis little baby girl that my partner gave birth to, and we had gone to the sperm bank to get a donor that resembled me as much as possible. We had this wonderful little baby girl who startedto call me Daddy.Then when we decidedwewanteda secondchild, I thought: How amI going todealwith ason?How canI get him toseewhoI am? That was what pushedme over the line, and I started the medical transition in the fall of 1988. Nobody noticed me anymore. I was just a guy walking down the street, and the energy that I had always had touse thinking about how other people were responding tome, all of it got redirected in ways that were much more productive." Christina Kahrl, 47 Writer and editor for ESPN.com in Chicago; Cofounder of the Baseball Prospectus. Transi- tioned in 2002. "A benefit and a hazard of being trans is you can end up talking about being trans all the time, which can become kind of self-alienating. I'm visibly trans, I am out as trans, there was noway I was ever gonna hide being trans, but I'm not talking about being trans unless people wanna talk about it. For me, I preferred to focus on the things that Ihad in common with others. I al- ways joke that sports is the ultimate social lubricant: It's the harmless subject; it's the thing that almost everybody has some facility with. Which, ify ou're at the ballpark, we're all talking about the ballgame. When Igo into a Major League Baseball locker room, I'm just another schlub with a mic. And then that ends up being something of a transgressiveact, because people real- ize: 'I met a trans person, and they 're kind of like me.' This is an awesome moment in history, but it's also kind of a very transient moment. Making sure that trans people get all the same benefits of citizenship in this country, that's something that we will be working for lifetime after lifetime. Trans people, we don't get a blow-up-the-Death-Star moment. We're not going to get ev erything we need all at once. It's going to be a long haul." Renée Richards, 81 Ophthalmologist in New York; Former tennis player And coach; Plaintiff In Landmark Richards V. Usta court ruling, which allowed her to compete professionally as a woman in the U. S. Open; Author of the memoir Spy Night & Other Memories. Transitioned in 1975. "In my day, of course, everything was done secretly and quietly, and if somebody went through the transformation, they did it privately. It was called 'woodworking': You merged into the woodwork after y our transformation and you tried to lead a new life without people knowing what y our previous life had been.