I was hosting/emceeing an anime event at a mall yesterday when one of the contestants in the cosplay (costume play) segment asked, while waiting for his turn to go on the catwalk, whether I had joined any pageants because I was pretty and had a good voice. Though I agree on the voice part I didn't believe the pretty part. I know I look okay, but not good enough for pageants. The guy asking has had some fame (or infamy) in our country because he has had multiple surgeries to look like Clark Kent / Superman. He also happens to be a trainer / coach in beauty pageants.

John Scalzi is a well known sci-fi author who is published by TOR/Forge books.
I have some of them via my niece Anna who used to be Piers Anthony's editor
when she worked there. Ok, so here's what's going on. He tweeted a comment that
no one is doing any fan fiction of his books.

I sent him a note that I thought some of his books would go very well as
Transgendered Fiction and have received permission for me to tell you that his
world is open. The story and Universe I was thinking about was from his book
"Old Man's War" and the sequels. You have to be old to join the war, and you

When I started reading TG stories on the web many years ago every story I read was interesting since I had never read stories with TG protagonists before. Finally someone I could identify with who was dealing with things that mattered to me.

After a decade or so this identification is still important so I still read TG stories but now the story has to provide something beyond the mere basics - the tropes of TG fiction such as self-discovery, the process of acquiring the clothes and paraphernalia, the salon experience, the shopping trip, the talk with the parents, the visit to the shrink... You know the list.

I now believe that in order to please long-time readers such as myself there are three main ways to make a TG story interesting.

I assume, like I guess most girls here, that I'm a good judge about the extent to which I pass for a genetic female in public.

A google search of site:bigclosetr.us hanger
shows that we use the word "hanger" as a misspelling for "hangar" more often than we talk about coathangers.

Male Reduction Syndrome revealed...

The strange adventures of a mild-mannered civil servant named Jack.

Jack gets just about as much as he can take.

A mild mannered civil servant presses on.