1 Pretty T Girls 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 Demographics of the Pretty T Girls Yahoo Group 5 The Spitfire Pilot Who Became a Woman and Fell In Love with A Woman Who Became A Man 6 The Challenge of Being Transgender and Over 60 10 Do Hormones Change the Transgender Brain 14 The Real Danish Girls 15 17 Amazing Makeup Tricks 17 When to Clean or Toss Your Beauty Tools 22 Double Duty Makeup-Cosmetics That Multitask 24 Teri Lee Ryan 26 The Adventures of Judy Sometimes 28 Módhnóirí 29 Tasi’s Musings 32 How To Pose Like A Model 37 Humor 38 Angels In the Centerfold 39 TG Tips From Millissa 43 Diane Pemberton Sikes 48 Tasi’s Fashion 53 The Best Fashion Advice of All Time 55 The Best Shoe Sites for Women with Large Feet 58 Lucille Sorella 59 The Worst Poses To Strike In Photos 64 25 Tricks To Be More Photogenic 66 From The Kitchen 69 5 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Your Waffle Iron 71 10 Time Saving Tips So You Don’t Stress Out In the Kitchen 74 Let’s Get Together 76 The Gossip Fence 80 Shop Till You Drop 90 Calendar 103 4 2015 A Year In Review An Editorial by: Barbara Jean Well it is time tosaygoodbye to 2015 and hello to 2016. For those of us who are transgender 2015 had both it’s ups and it’s downs. On the plus side of course here in the United States was the Supreme Court decision that legalized samesexmarriage in allstates. Abig win not just for the gay/lesbian communitybut for our community as well. Of course not everyone was willing to accept the Supreme Court decision with one Kentucky Clerk still refusing to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples and politicians looking for ways to circumvent the decision. We have also seen where businesses that have tried to discriminate against same sex couples have received very heavy fines. Now that the hate groups have lost their fight onsamesexmarriage theyhave turned their sights on us, Primary in the form of bathrooms. In a number of states there has been attempts to require us to use the bathroom according to the sex we were assigned at birth. In Houston an equal rights ordinance was overturned byvoters with our opponents dubbing it as a bathroom bill, and in California, a state that allows us to use the bathroom according to the gender we Identifywith there is an attempt to overturn the law via a ballot petition. However in schools the federal government has said it would be a violation of title IXand it would cost any school that would require us to use the bathroom of our birth sexor onlya single stall type of bathroom their title IX dollars. EEOC and other federal agencies are also saying it is in violation of Title VII to require us to use bathroom according to birth sex. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has declared transphobic violence to be a national crisis. In Pennsylvania a transsexual was chosen to be the states surgeon general, and the White House has hired a transgender individual as astaff member. In the United States some 22 transwomen have had their lives cut short the result of hate, the most for any year yet. In Washington D.C. it was reported that transgender hate crimes were ten times the national average. England has reported that transgender hate crimes were also up this past year. More states have made it easier to change the sex on our birth certificate to align with our true gender vs. our biological sex. More and more insurance companies are now covering transgender care including sexual reassignment surgery, As a result of the suicide death of Lealah Alcorn more state are passing laws prohibiting conversion therapy. A hospital in New York is specializing in transgender care 5 and the VA in Cleveland has opened up a clinic for transgender veterans. The Census bureau reported that the 2010 Census showed that almost 90,000 have changed their name to one of the opposite gender and almost 22,000 of us have changed oursex. 2015saw more visibilityfor the transgender also. In addition to Amazon’s Transparent, we have seen more television shows about the transgender and even a first ratemovie. All of these actually had transgender characters rather than a cisgender portraying a transgender. Perhaps the biggest surprise for everyone was when Bruce Jenner came out as transgender and became Caitlyn Jenner. Girl Scouts have changed their policy to allow transgender girls to be a part of the girlscouts. 42% of Americans saythey have a verygood understanding of what it means to be transgender. 2016 will be an election year here in the United States. Depending on who wins in the various elections it could be a positive year or a negative year for the transgender especiallyin terms of things like civil rights. For our group, well we have seen some new members join and ourmagazine has gotten big- ger with the addition of a cooking section and a list of groups thatmeet. We have also added a few new advertisers to the Shop Till You Drop section. So Iguess itis time to saygoodbye to 2015 and Hello to 2016. Itis our hope that2016 will bring more positive changes for everyone. Demographics of the Pretty T Girls Yahoo Group By: Barbara Jean co-moderator I had recently run a series of polls concerning the demographics of our Yahoo Group. Some of the finding were to be expected, while others were a bit of a surprise. Location: This poll was conducted a few years back before Yahoo changed the format for the groups. This poll had the best response of all the polls. Seems that 82% of us are in the United States, while Great Britain had 7%. Canada had 4% and Australia 2%. Remainder were at1%. While Idid expectthe U.S.to have the most members, I was surprised that we hadso few in Canada. Age: This poll indicated that we are a rathermature group with about 85% of us being over the age of 50. 40somethings were at about 13.5% and those in their 30’s were about 2%. If there were anymembers under the age of 30 theydid not respond to the group poll. Employment: Iwas notmuch ofa surprise thatthemajorityofus are insomesortof professional line of work with 31% of us being in either engineering or information technology. What was a surprise is that almost 10% of us are either in the military or retired from the Military. I do suspect more here are retired due to current military regulation. The poll also 6 showed that about 8% of us worked in Education and 2% of us worked either as law enforcement officers or fire fighters. About 30% of us come from one of the blue collar trades. Our TG Status: About 16% of us indicated that we were transsexual while almost 41% of us indicate ourselves to be crossdressers. Almost 4% of us are the wife/partner of a crossdresser or transsexual. Acceptance: About 16.5% of us have a wife/partner that accepts our crossdressing/ transsexualism, while about 8% have a wife/partner that does not accept their husbands crossdressing. About 4% of us have children living at home who are aware of the fathers being a TG and 7% ofus have children living outside ofthe home who are aware oftheir fathers being a TG. 21% of us have children who are NOT aware of the fathers TG status. Just over 12% of us indicated to be living with a girlfriend who was accepting of our being TG and 4% of us indicated to be partnered to a man. Visability: About57% ofus indicated to be in the closet. 37% ofus indicated to be outofthe closet and 6% of us indicated to be living full time enfemme. Accuracy of Polls: How accurate are the polls, well even after removing members who are bouncing, our groupstill has over 3000members, and yet fewer than 1% seem to participate in the polls. Prior to the change of format made by Yahoo participation was still under 2%. A higher number of members participating in the polls would of course make for a more accurate measure. The incredible story of the Spitfire pilot who became a woman and fell in love with the female student who became a man Roberta Cowell was the first known British transsexual woman to undergo sex reassignment and Michael Dillion was a physician who was the first British female to male transsexual Robert Cowell had been a Second World War spitfire pilot who became a prisoner of war, raced in the Belgian Grand Prix, and a married father of two girls. But despite his achievements, he was desperatelyunhappy– he knew he wanted to become a woman, Roberta. [Photo: Roberta Cowell In 1962; Man Who Has Sex-change Transplant.] He struck up a friendship with medical student Michael Dillon – the world's first woman to become aman. Dillon fellmadlyin love with Roberta and agreed to risk his medical license to illegally castrate him to help with his 7 transition to becoming a woman. [Photo: Close: Roberta Cowell and Michael Dillon composite.] Now 60 years on, the extraordinary story of the unique relationship between these two medical pioneers is being told on TVfor the first time. Author of a book about their lives Liz Hodgkinson, whose friendship with Cowell led to the discovery of letters revealing the deep but unrequited love of Michael for Roberta, said: “There is no doubt that Michael was in love with Roberta.