Transgenderism and Transsexualism

What the Fix?

Trans Substantiation

Bend Your Gender

Juicy and Delicious

Heather Has Lots of People Who Love Her

Boy or Girl? Maybe Not.

Thank You For Being a Freak

Putting the "Yay!" in Yay Area

Get Out of the House Free Card

Unemployed straight guys attend transgender job fair

Music, Martinis, and Memories

Do the Manly Dance

Cheap Queens Behaving Badly

Transgender Activists Staying Home From Obama Protests, But Waiting for President to Back Up Trans-Friendly Words

Code Pink on the left! Teabaggers on the right! Apparently, however, the transgender community still has President Obama's back.​While Michelle Obama marked an earlier San Francisco visit by getting her hands dirty volunteering at a Bayview playground, the O will be skipping a ... More >>

Transblazer

She just became the city's first transgender department head, but Theresa Sparks is already setting her sights on becoming the city's first transgender supervisor.

Trans-Mission

She just became the city's first transgender department head, but Theresa Sparks is already setting her sights on becoming the city's first transgender supervisor.

SF Weekly Letters

She just became the city's first transgender department head, but Theresa Sparks is already setting her sights on becoming the city's first transgender supervisor.

God, I Hope I Get It

She just became the city's first transgender department head, but Theresa Sparks is already setting her sights on becoming the city's first transgender supervisor.

Suspected Killer of Transgender Prostitute Given Hefty Sentence for Other Crimes

Ruby Ordenana was raped and murdered in 2007. DNA evidence collected from her body matches suspect Donzell Francis.​Sitting in Department 10 on Monday afternoon, Donzell Francis, 41, didn't react as the judge sentenced him to the maximum sentence of 17 years and 8 months in state prison ... More >>

Lou Reads

Ruby Ordenana was raped and murdered in 2007. DNA evidence collected from her body matches suspect Donzell Francis.​Sitting in Department 10 on Monday afternoon, Donzell Francis, 41, didn't react as the judge sentenced him to the maximum sentence of 17 years and 8 months in state prison ... More >>

Are Gays Losing Patience With Obama? Don't Ask.

Has Barack Obama enacted all the sweet talk he directed toward the gay community? Well...​Some people are so desperate for leadership that they will cling to anyone that gives them the time of day - even when they know the heart-shaped boxes they are given are always empty. If certain gay Demo ... More >>

Transgender Attack Cases Backlogged in Crime Lab Finally Getting Their Due

Ruby Ordenana​Long before Deborah Madden got caught skimming coke from evidence containers, Donzell Francis, 41, was reaping the benefits of an overburdened crime lab. Although today he'll be charged with crimes stemming from attacks on two transgender prostitutes (including one murder count), Fra ... More >>

Gay-Centric Kiss-In Today, Rain or Shine

Hey! Wait until 5:30, dammit! ​Today's organized gay kiss-in in the Castro is meant to shed light on how such an activity could get one beaten, arrested, or stoned to death in much of the world. This, as activists love to say, is "empowering." So it wouldn't do for folks to stay home because they' ... More >>

The Man Show

Hey! Wait until 5:30, dammit! ​Today's organized gay kiss-in in the Castro is meant to shed light on how such an activity could get one beaten, arrested, or stoned to death in much of the world. This, as activists love to say, is "empowering." So it wouldn't do for folks to stay home because they' ... More >>

Headbangers' Ball

Hey! Wait until 5:30, dammit! ​Today's organized gay kiss-in in the Castro is meant to shed light on how such an activity could get one beaten, arrested, or stoned to death in much of the world. This, as activists love to say, is "empowering." So it wouldn't do for folks to stay home because they' ... More >>

Details on S.F.'s Big Gay Ice Cream Jamboree: Brace for the Tranny Smackdown Sundae

Carlos Avila Gonzalez /The ChronicleBeach Blanket Babylon's Glinda the Good Witch will hand out Tranny Smackdowns at Humphry Slocombe.​We've now got some additional details to add to yesterday's post about Humphry Slocombe's event with New York's Big Gay Ice Cream Truck on August 22. The two a ... More >>

Go-Gos' Jane Wiedlin Pays Tribute to Big Gay Ice Cream!

Jason O'Malley​We recently told you about a Tranny Smackdown sundae that will be created for one fleeting day when locals Humphry Slocombe will be visited by Doug Quint and Bryan Petroff of New York's Big Gay Ice Cream Truck, and that former Go-Gos guitarist and Mission resident Jane Wiedlin w ... More >>

Lana Lawless, Transgender Woman Golfer, Sues LPGA

www.longdrivers.comLana Lawless takes home the 2009 Long Drivers of America title​Transgender golfer Lana Lawless is suing two of the country's top golf associations to do away with their ban on trans-women athletes. The Ladies Professional Golf Association -- better known as the LPGA -- is only o ... More >>

Wounded Pride

Despite its reputation, gay-friendly San Francisco is still a tough place for teens to come out.

First Transgender Judge Victoria Kolakowski's Long Road

Here comes the judge...​Winners of Alameda County Superior Court Judgeships usually don't get calls from national media. But Victoria Kolakowski -- "spelled just like it sounds" -- isn't just any judge. She's almost certainly the first transgender judge in American history, and even more almost ce ... More >>

Transgender Judges More Common than You'd Think

Well, we'll be damned...​Earlier today, we wrote about Oakland's Victoria Kolakowski, the nation's first elected transgender judge. You'd think the "elected" would be superfluous -- there aren't a plethora of transgender judges. Well, you'd be wrong. Today Houston Mayor Annise Parker appointed tra ... More >>

Human Rights Campaign To Move Into Harvey Milk's Camera Store

Harvey Milk has been enlisted by the HRC​In what some grassroots gay activists are calling an "insult," the Human Rights Campaign is about to move into the location of Harvey Milk's old camera store at 575 Castro Street. It will be the new San Francisco "action center" providing information on the ... More >>

Transgender Woman Amber Yust Files Claim Agaisnt DMV Over Bible-Thumping Letter

Amber Yust says she caught hell from the DMV...​SF Weekly readers may recall a charming story about a transgender woman getting a drivers license with her new female name at the San Francisco DMV -- and also getting a most unwelcome letter, purportedly from a DMV employee, telling her she was goin ... More >>

The Self-Made Man

Amber Yust says she caught hell from the DMV...​SF Weekly readers may recall a charming story about a transgender woman getting a drivers license with her new female name at the San Francisco DMV -- and also getting a most unwelcome letter, purportedly from a DMV employee, telling her she was goin ... More >>

Theresa Sparks Honored For Election To Board of Supervisors. Problem: She Wasn't.

Ms. Sparks, we've got some news for you...​Theresa Sparks will not be a San Francisco supervisor. Yet she has been named one of the year's top politicos for winning a seat on the Board of Supervisors. Say what? Along with Alameda County Superior Court Judge Victoria Kolakowski, Sparks is named as ... More >>

Free and Five Party, Writers With Drinks, Gestapo Khazi, The Babies, and No Pants BART Ride

The Babies plays Hemlock Tavern this Saturday ​There is heavy metal and ethereal ambient noise, transsexual fashion shows and fancy vintage paper, Go-Gos and Babies. It's all here this weekend, in San Francisco, for less than the cost of taking a heterosexual date to Chick-fil-A. Here's our list o ... More >>

Amber Yust, Transgender Woman Sues DMV Over Bible-Beating Letter

The DMV gave her hell, she gave it right back ​Readers might recall the story of Amber Yust, the 23-year-old transgender woman who received a harassing letter from a DMV clerk after she got her drivers license with her female name on it.Well, now Yust has officially field a lawsuit against the DMV ... More >>

Sex Survey: 'What Is Your Sex?' No Simple Question For Kaiser

We're thinking, we're thinking...​For years, the biggest development in querying people's sex was changing the forms to read "What is your sex?" instead of "sex" -- to keep respondents from filling out "Yes." It seems, however, there is once again latitude in this often straightforward question. A ... More >>

Chrissy Lee Polis, Transgender Woman Beaten, Speaks Out (Video)

Chrissy Lee Polis speaks​Update: Police have charged Teonna Monae Brown, 18, with assault. A 14-year-old girl is also facing charges. Original story, 8:45 a.m.: By now, most people have heard about the truly jaw-dropping case of a transgender woman who was brutally beaten inside a McDonald's in Ma ... More >>

Love Underground

Chrissy Lee Polis speaks​Update: Police have charged Teonna Monae Brown, 18, with assault. A 14-year-old girl is also facing charges. Original story, 8:45 a.m.: By now, most people have heard about the truly jaw-dropping case of a transgender woman who was brutally beaten inside a McDonald's in Ma ... More >>

Transgression Run Amok

Chrissy Lee Polis speaks​Update: Police have charged Teonna Monae Brown, 18, with assault. A 14-year-old girl is also facing charges. Original story, 8:45 a.m.: By now, most people have heard about the truly jaw-dropping case of a transgender woman who was brutally beaten inside a McDonald's in Ma ... More >>

Superstar Sightings

Chrissy Lee Polis speaks​Update: Police have charged Teonna Monae Brown, 18, with assault. A 14-year-old girl is also facing charges. Original story, 8:45 a.m.: By now, most people have heard about the truly jaw-dropping case of a transgender woman who was brutally beaten inside a McDonald's in Ma ... More >>

Reading S.F. the Riot Act

Chrissy Lee Polis speaks​Update: Police have charged Teonna Monae Brown, 18, with assault. A 14-year-old girl is also facing charges. Original story, 8:45 a.m.: By now, most people have heard about the truly jaw-dropping case of a transgender woman who was brutally beaten inside a McDonald's in Ma ... More >>

LGBT History Bill is Anti-Family, Says Group Seeking Referendum

Stop SB48 wants Harvey Milk out of the classroom​The ink has barely dried on the FAIR Education Act and already antigay groups have begun to collect signatures for a ballot referendum to overturn the nation's first law requiring public schools to include LGBT history in the curriculum. Stop ... More >>

Tips from Kristina Wertz, S.F. Lawyer Who Fought Transgender Discrimination at the TSA

Kristina Wertz​Thanks to Kristina Wertz, legal director of San Francisco's Transgender Law Center, Transportation Security Administration managers at Los Angeles International Airport will undergo mandatory sensitivity training as part of a legal settlement.Wertz' client, Ashley Yang, was fired l ... More >>

Amber Yust, Transgender Woman, Wins Settlement Over Bible-Thumping Letter

The DMV is hell​SF Weekly readers might recall that oh-so charming story of Amber Yust, the transgender woman who received an unwelcoming letter from a DMV employee who told her she was going straight to hell. Yust, who had gone into the DMV to change her sex on her driver's license, sued the DMV ... More >>

Transgender Woman Attacked on Halloween

coolers should only be used for parties​A 43-year-old transgender woman was attacked Halloween night as she walked though the Mission District, according to police.The woman was on the 500 block of Valencia Street when the suspect approached her and started yelling gay slurs at her and threatened ... More >>

Trans National

coolers should only be used for parties​A 43-year-old transgender woman was attacked Halloween night as she walked though the Mission District, according to police.The woman was on the 500 block of Valencia Street when the suspect approached her and started yelling gay slurs at her and threatened ... More >>