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Trans Mission: Convert Celebrity Men to Women

Colleen Kane — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:57:00 GMT

The Worth 1000 Photoshop site just wrapped up Gender Bending, a contest asking entrants to transform a photo of a male celebrity into a female. The entry above is an imaginary reprise of Tom Hanks' character in Bosom Buddies.

So which male celeb makes the prettiest lady, and who looked the narstiest?

Elijah Wood's pretty face trans-lates well, though still with that intense starey thing (s)he does.

And on to the fugly. Nick Cage, NO!

See them all here.

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Scanner Highs And Lows: Michael Phelps Rules The Blog

Brian Fairbanks — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:55:00 GMT

We held onto the Olympics for dear life, we'll admit, but after this last look back at the week's highlights, it may be time to say adios...

...until next week, when more nude Olympians are sure to grace us with their leaked online photos... or maybe Republicans are caught with strippers...

HIGHS:

...since Democrats don't seem to enjoy them.

We have to hand it to John McCain for making it an historic election now, no matter who wins.

Enough about McCain, here's to a true hero: Michael Phelps, who is now spending his days giving kids swimming lessons, apparently.

Matthew McConaughey's mom is kind of a sexual hero, in a way. Really.

We're proud to have had a transgender Crush of the Week, although we're pretty sure she won't go out with us no matter how much we kiss her ass.

Eva Longoria Circa A Few Years Ago is kind of our runner-up Crush of the Week.

LOWS:

This post would've been called Last of the Nude Olympians... if they were actually Olympians.

Hopefully, Olympians won't have to stoop to making straight-to-DVD sex movies. Blurry sex tapes will do just fine, thanks.

If you were wondering why we enjoy photos of women athletes who have bodies like rocks (of Gibraltar), a reminder of a possible alternative.

So we've established Ms. Marsh is not among the sexy people... are you?

Seriously, we do wish Mulder luck in rehab, despite what you may think.

This guy is world's worst liar.

Something we can all argue about civilly: this show may or may not be terrible.

Speaking of lying, somebody lied to us when they said Toy Story was animated, damn it.

Buck Angel Too Much Man... Or Is It Too Much Woman... For Porn?

Brian Fairbanks — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:31:00 GMT

Forget the phony "Pregnant Man." The latest transgender success story is way better...

Buck Angel is lighting up the blogosphere with a wave of publicity, from Jezebel to the Village Voice, detailing his life as a woman who became a man but stayed a woman but decided to do some awesome pornographic movies. His website calls him the "first and only" female-to-male transsexual porn star:

As the undisputed king of transgender porn, Buck Angel thrives on his ability to deconstruct traditional notions of masculinity. He unabashedly promotes himself as a man with a pussy.
Angel's performance at the Black Party was a direct challenge to the men who have pretty much run the gay-rights movement for decades... "Men who have been fucked, fisted, shackled, flogged, and pissed upon have finally crossed a lurid and yet rarely discussed carnal threshold. They have seen, in person, a pussy."

Angel himself concedes that his unconventional plumbing causes discomfort among gay men: "I don't conform to what you tell me I should do," he says. "...Gender is not black and white. And I'm putting that out there in your face."

(Wikipedia points out that although "he is by no means the only transman to have ever worked in pornography, he is certainly one of the best-known and best-paid FTM (female-to-male) transsexual pornographic actors to date.)

Here's Buck naked:

Buck Angel's career as a man with a pussy continues apace. And he remains as defiant as ever: "There are no rules, as far as I'm concerned," Angel says. "Nobody can deny I am a man. I am not conforming to anyone who says I'm not. Nobody can tell me different." [Village Voice]

Also via Jezebel.

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Suburban Kids Who Support Sex Change Friend Make Us Proud

Brian Fairbanks — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:14:00 GMT

Who'd a thunk Fox Frickin' News would have the story to make us feel all warm and fuzzy today? By warm and fuzzy, we don't mean the way we felt imagining Lady Richardson entirely buck naked earlier.

We're talking about a whopping dozen students in Brewster, NY, who have taken to cross-dressing at their high school. Not because they want to... they're showing solidarity for their friend...

Boys wore skirts and wigs and girls wore caps and cargo pants to Brewster High School in Putnam County.

One senior says the students wanted 17-year-old Michael Loscalzo to feel more comfortable. Loscalzo has been dressing as a girl and says he plans to get a sex-change operation. He says he's been teased and even punched once because of his appearance.

Is the country finally turning a corner? Straight teenagers standing side-by-side to support one boy's decision to become a girl? Even we wouldn't have had those kinda guts as a seventeen-year-old junior Maoist-in-training, with our love of penguins, kittens, and disgust for Dan Quayle, whom we referred to as "the poster by for Spell Check." More surprisingly, the school appears to be siding with them:

The school says Loscalzo is free to dress as a girl as long as he follows the dress code.

God bless the US Constitution.

Football Star's Hooker Scandal Hilariously Embarrassing

Brian Fairbanks — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:30:00 GMT

The David Beckham of Brazil is caught in the Sex Scandal of the Week, featuring three hookers, drug allegations, the cops, and one humiliating revelation.

Ronaldo, the international football star, had a quarrel with 3 hookers he brought back to his hotel room in Brazil. He discovered too late that they were transvestites.

Poor Ronaldo... first, someone names him Ronaldo (ouch), then he becomes internationally famous and therefore has to hide his sexual proclivities, then those sexual proclivities come out in full force, splashed all across the large-print tabloids of South America.

To add insult to injury, after offering each individual $600 (to go away... or to stay?), one demanded 30 large or "she" would call her friends in the media. That unnamed transvestite, his/her feelings hurt, went to the police with the story that Ronaldo had asked her to pick up some drugs, although cops aren't buying her story at all.

All right, be honest now... do these look like men or women?

Via Stupid Celebrities.

When Straight Marriage Goes Gay

Emily Farris — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:57:00 GMT

The New York Times this weekend explored how transgendered couples are challenging the marriage laws in New Jersey.

Donald and Frances Brunner married in 1980. In 2005 Donald became Denise. Still legally married, the couple just amended the marriage license to reflect the name change.

Another biologically hetero couple married six months before the "husband" had his sex change, just so they could be protected by law.

It would seem as if the joke is on New Jersey. For now, anyway. While neither couple has faced legal problems yet, both worry about the day one is turned away at the emergency room or stripped of their rights to make important medical decisions for the other—all further evidence that antiquiated marriage laws in all states need to be updated.

Especially after a 2000 case in Texas where lawyers for Christie Lee Littleton, a Texas male-to-female transsexual suing her husband’s doctors for wrongful death, tried to explain her situation: “Taking this situation to its logical conclusion, Mrs. Littleton, while in San Antonio, Texas, is a male and has a void marriage; as she travels to Houston, Texas, and enters federal property, she is female and a widow; upon traveling to Kentucky she is female and a widow; but, upon entering Ohio, she is once again male and prohibited from marriage; entering Connecticut, she is again female and may marry; if her travel takes her north to Vermont, she is male and may marry a female; if instead she travels south to New Jersey, she may marry a male.”

Seems simple enough to us: everybody gets a civil union, which is recognized by law the way straight marriage is today. If people then want to get married in the church, just like they baptize their babies, go for it. But that's just us, we're not big God fans.

[NYT: Through Sickness, Health and Sex Change]