TRI-ESS INT'L

READING ROOM


         

We're collecting some reading material here for you to enjoy while you browse through our website. Below you'll find some links to informative articles by professionals and others on issues relating to the transgender experience. You'll also find some heartwarming stories listed, mostly about TG experiences, but some that we thought were just so nice, cute, or touching that we just *had* to include them for you. And to tickle your funnybone, we dropped in a few jokes and funny stories in the "ON THE LIGHTER SIDE" section. So enjoy your reading, but do let us know if there is anything here that you feel is inappropriate, or should be removed.

TRANSGENDER ARTICLES


TRANSGENDER STORIES AND LETTERS



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TG LEGISLATION AND NEWS ARTICLES

Our Gender Family - by Rachel Miller



This series of 18 articles promotes creating a healthy and unified gender community. It provides helpful advice for all transgendered people as well as gays and lesbians. If you are an LGBTQ person, these articles will help you to understand the importance of all of us "hanging together" for strength, so we don't "hang separately." We must learn to work together in order to integrate into mainstream society. The articles provide many ideas on how to create that sense of community.
  1. Building a Strong Gender Family
  2. How Big is Our Gender Family?
  3. The Chicken & the Pig Go To Breakfast
  4. Everyone Can Play In Our Super Bowl
  5. Creating A Gender Friendly World
  6. The Little Engine That Could
  7. I Hate Being Wrong - Especially About Fishing
  8. Bowling & Poker
  9. Another Manhattan
  10. "A"s & "F"s
  11. Theretical Perspective
  12. Boom Boom Boom
  13. Walls Fall Down
  14. Religious Legalism
  15. Love Test
  16. Conspiracy
  17. Will You Try To Understand?
  18. It's Time To Plant Loving Seeds

Rachel's community best seller, The Bliss of Becoming One! encourages transvestites to integrate their feminine and masculine traits through understanding and self-acceptance. It encourages revealing our true selves to our loved ones, helping those in need in the community and educating society. Signed copies are available for $15 postage paid from Opportunities for Improvement, P.O. Box 31475, Oakland, CA 94604.

Planting Loving Seeds - by Rachel Miller



This series of 10 articles was designed for Christians who feel excluded from the mainstream of the church because of their differences. While the articles primarily address separation because of cross-dressing, they draw clear parallels to religious exclusion for any reason.
  1. Pouring The Foundation
  2. The Mulch Pile Ministry - Seeing With Your Heart
  3. From Resignation to Rebirth
  4. Ministry or Repentance?
  5. The Dream!
  6. Call The Question!
  7. Take a Small Step To Share the Good News
  8. Lee Frances Heller - God's Gift to the Transgendered
  9. Reconciling Sunday
  10. You Are Not Alone!

We Hold These Truths - by Rachel Miller



This just concluded series of 6 articles has the most universal appeal. The articles discuss the importance of each of us confronting societal and spiritual discrimination and injustice against any other person or groups of persons.
  1. What Are You Going To Do?
  2. Confronting Discrimination & Injustice
  3. Life Lines
  4. Peabody & Sherman
  5. Are We Being True to Our Faiths?
  6. Help Wanted

Spouses & Partners - by Rachel Miller



This series of 8 articles provides helpful ideas and approaches for couples to deal with cross-dressing issues. If your spouse or loved one is a cross-dresser, you should read this material and use it to engage in dialog with the cross-dresser. It describes how my wife and I learned how to deal effectively with these issues and how we were able to integrate cross-dressing into our lives rather than keeping it separate.
  1. Marriage and the Cross-Dresser - How It Can Work
  2. Cross-Dressing Doesn't Have To Be A Problem - It Can Be An Opportunity
  3. Let's Talk With - Marsha & Richard (Rachel) Miller
  4. Let's Talk About -- Committed Relationships
  5. Let's Talk About -- The S.P.I.C.E. Conference Experience
  6. Let's Talk About -- Balance
  7. Let's Talk About -- Getting What You Want
  8. Let's Talk About -- Understanding & Acceptance

The "Femme" Mirror - by Rachel Miller



This series of 17 articles parallels the ideas expressed in Rachel's book, The Bliss of Becoming One!, and promote understanding for heterosexual male transvestites and those who love them. If you are a cross-dresser or care about someone who is, this series provides invaluable insights into the issues you face.
  1. Our Life Is What Our Thoughts Make It
  2. The Seemingly Innocent Game
  3. Do You Really Think You Can Change Things?
  4. What Sex Is Your Shirt?
  5. The Bible Tells Me So...
  6. Understanding Our Sexuality...
  7. Understanding Our Sexuality... Second Verse
  8. Understanding Our Emotions
  9. Could These Emotions Be a Good Thing?
  10. Who Was That Masked Man?
  11. Changes! We Don't Need No Stinking Changes!
  12. Yes, But!
  13. How Can I Accept Someone As Imperfect As Me?
  14. To Share or Not To Share. Is That Your Question?
  15. Who, Me? Help?
  16. Breaking the Cycle
  17. The Day Is Coming

OLD HAGS & SAGGING BAGS


KATHY BOWER'S RANT PAGE


  1. Femininity
  2. Shoes and hose
  3. Supportive?
  4. Submissive = Feminine?
  5. Spring Fashion 2000
  6. Breasts... a Boy's Best Friend
  7. I'm Just a Girl
  8. Sexual Car Wrecks
  9. To Tell or Not to Tell?
  10. Girls, Girls, Girls!
  11. Let's Talk About Sex!
  12. Some Thoughts on Passing

MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION SOURCES AND SITES AROUND THE WEB


ON THE LIGHTER SIDE





 

We hope you enjoyed these articles and stories. We've certainly enjoyed making them available for your reading pleasure. We'll be adding lots more of everything as we go along, so be sure to stop back often.
BTW, if you have a copy of an interesting article, a heartwarming story, or a joke or two, please send them to our webmistress molly. She'll add it to these pages so everyone else can enjoy it too.


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