Welcome to the Trib

Happy New Year to all of our readers - both of you! Just kidding. The Tranny Tribune is sent out monthly to more than 30000 email addresses so I would hope that we have a few more than just two reading.

Speaking of statistics, you may have read in our last issue, about Trannyweb's affiliation with Leeds University in the UK. Over the next 12 months and beyond we will jointly be carrying out the largest survey of the transgender world ever mounted. There's more on that below.

Also this month, our Celebrity Interviewer Meredith Newton, or Scoop Newton and she is now becoming known, speaks to author, Julie Anne Peters, about her career.

My good friend Lilienne Li from Los Angeles, has been our Trannyweb Cover Girl for a long time now and while we all love her to bits, she was only supposed to be our cover girl for a month! So, we are now on the lookout for a new cover girl - is that you? There's more on this below.

We also need some membership officers to help welcome new people to the community and make sure that they are fitting in well. Remember what it was like when you joined?

And Trannyweb member, Kayleigh M Martin, from Ketchikan in Alaska ponders about transitioning and discovering her real self.

If you have an article for The Tranny Trib, please send it in to me.

Thanks and New Year hugs, Katie xxxx

"Beyond the Weekend" - An essential guide to becoming a woman.
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"The Evolution of Lisa" - a new novel by Tina B.
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The Great Trannyweb/University of Leeds Transgender Survey of 2007

Even now, in 2007, very little is known about us trannies. We know who we are but how many of us are there? Do we all feel the same way? Are we all born this way or do some of us suddenly feel the need for a transgender lifestyle when we approach middle age?

And what about our SO's and our Admirers? They won't be left out either.

There are surveys for everyone - MtF Crossdressers, FtM Transmen and TS Ladies to name but a few.

The Great Trannyweb Survey's of 2007 will go down in history as the tranny equivalent of the Domesday Book.

The results will be processed by Leeds University and will be used by academics around the world in their work. Our results will help doctors, social and health services and even governments to understand and accept our community for many years to come.

If you would like to be part of this important initiative, please go now to this page and take part. Let your voice be heard.

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Sitting in Silent Quandary by Kayleigh M Martin

Here I sit, or rather lay, in my bed with a laptop in my lap. I am coming up on my first year of living full-time in my role of a female.

There are two questions that continue to assault my conscious - "Who am I" and, "Am I being true to myself?"

I know we all ask these questions and we always have an answer.

For myself, these answers were only meant to placate, to avoid the true dilemmas that hide in the unfathomable depths of my mind. Now I need to look back and fumble for the truth.

For years, as I am sure everyone reading this can concur, I have been deceitful. I have hid behind life, tried to hide from life. I began to believe that I deserved pain and that suffering was my pittance for my deviance. I know now, that this is wrong; no one deserves pain, or suffering for the reasons that I allowed it.

I was being harder on myself then I would be on anyone else. How could I, someone who knew that I was born wrong, be accepting of all others but not myself? What gave me the right to hold myself to a "different standard" then every other person? I cannot.

As afore mentioned I am nearing the end of my first year; this go around. At first, growing up, I believed that I was a cross-dresser. I built a reputation in high school for being a public shock artist, which granted me the ability to go out in public dressed as a female without anyone guessing who I truly was.

After every breakup with a girlfriend I would swear to myself that I would begin hormones, then push the thought away. I decided it was time to prove to myself that I could be a man so I joined the military.

Shortly after joining I had a son, got married, 4 months later got divorced and the powers that be decided that I would be discharged from the service.

Six months from my discharge date I came to accept wholly who I am and began living full-time, except on base of course. After the six months I went back home and back in the closet.

A year passed and I became increasingly depressed. My sense of personal hygiene was non-existent, I developed a horrid rash and completely isolated myself. I wanted to die.

The instinct for survival is a miraculous thing. I couldn’t tumble in further so I went to seek out help. After several months on hormones I went full-time again...

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Cover Girls Wanted

Ever fancied being a cover girl? Well here's your chance because we are currently looking for some good looking, very passable girls who have some great photos, to appear on our front page.

If that sounds like you and you have some professionally taken studio shots (preferably on a plain white or blank background), then we'd like to hear from you.

Please drop a line to Katie by clicking this link

We would also like to thank the lovely Miss Lilienne Li (above) who has adorned our front page for several months now.

MN: Julie, first let me say that this is going to be a very biased interview as I am a fan of your work.  I appreciate the way you create your characters.  They are real, and your plots are anything but predictable.  I highly recommend your books for all to read.  How did you come up with the idea for Luna?

Julie with partner Sherri

JAP: It wasn’t my idea.  This girl appeared to me in the middle of the night.  Actually, she woke me from a dead sleep.  “Write about me,” she said.

I said, “Did you have to wake me up?  Go away.” She was back the next night.  “Write about me.”

It was strange—not that a character would appear out of nowhere—but that she would be so visually distinct.  I only ever see my characters from the inside out.  This girl was 17 or 18, with shoulder-length blonde hair and a spray of freckles across her nose.  I said, “Who are you?”

She said, “I’m Luna.”

Luna, I thought.  Right.  Call Bellevue. I also thought, Wow, that would make a great title for a young adult novel.  But I was in no shape to start a new book.

I’d just finished two novels back-to-back and I was exhausted.  Writing is physically and emotionally demanding work.  I told Luna to go away, go away, come again some other day. Night after night, she’d wake me.  Her incessant, “Write about me.  Write about me.”  Finally, I got so irritated with her I snapped, “What?  Write what?  What’s your story?”

She made this gesture.  She ran her hand down the back of her head and rested her arm across her breast.  Smiling coyly, she said, “I’m transsexual.” I thought, "Kill me now"...

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Trannyweb's 7th Birthday Bash
As you may know, Trannyweb was seven years old on the 16th December. However, because of our birthday's proximity to Crimbo, we decided to celebrate this month instead.

So, you are cordially invited to the official Trannyweb Birthday Weekend in Manchester, UK, on Friday 26^th and Saturday 27^th January 2007.

If you don't live in the UK, there's still time to organise something in your town, city or country, if you'd like to be involved.

The UK weekend will begin with a night of clubbing on Manchester's Canal Street.  On Saturday, Justine Cairnes, our Social Secretary, will be arranging an en femme shopping trip into Manchester in the morning and early afternoon.

If you wish to come along on the shopping trip please let Justine know so that she can all arrange for everyone to meet up and leave together.

After the shopping trip, or if you are newly arrived, we will be meeting up in Monroe's bar.  We generally meet in male mode (or dressed if this suits you) in Monroe's, and this provides an ideal opportunity for the girls to get to know one another and to put the new girls at their ease. 

When the bar closes at around 4.00 pm we usually go back to the hotel to get dressed or grab a bite to eat.

In the evening we will be dining at Velvet’s, which is a very tranny-friendly restaurant, before visiting several bars on Canal Street and ending up at Napoleon’s.

A visit to "Naps" has become become something of a tradition on our TrannyWeb Girly Nights Out.

If you would like to come along to our UK event, please click here to contact Justine for more details. If you'd like to join us for our sit-down meal, please make sure that Justine knows so she can book a place for you.

Happy belated birthday wishes girls!

Dr Sakura's Tranny Book Bundle

All four of Dr Mina Sakura's Downloadable Tranny Books are now available for one very heavily discounted price if you buy them together.

Buy "The Weekend Woman" and "Beyond the Weekend" and get "Steppin' Out at the Weekend" and "Day to Day Women" FREE!

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