Bette Davis as “Stanley” My sister mentioned to me that in the 1942 film In This Our Life , Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland play sisters...

Tommy Dorfman Another “celebrity” came out as trans:  actress Tommy Dorfman , who came out as a transgender woman. “ I am a trans woman. My ...

  Gina's post about selecting a femme name prompted me to consider my femme name and my identity. In the closet, I did not need a femme...

By Gina V Greetings to you all! Stana has kindly invited me to contribute towards her most excellent site and as such, I hope I can keep up ...

By Starla Renee Trimm “That which we call a rose,” Shakespeare famously wrote, “by any other name would smell as sweet.” Well, perhaps...

Billy and I were best friends throughout grammar school. I can't remember how we became friends, but we had a lot in common and that is...

“Today is an exciting day. A judge in the state of Kansas has officially ordered my name to be changed from ‘Bradley Edward Manning’ to ‘Ch...

I changed my name to Stana in May, but I was not sure how to pronounce my new name. Did "Stana" rhyme with "Donna" or...

When I changed my name from Staci to Stana back in May , I tried to change my name on Facebook to no avail. (Facebook insisted that Stana w...

I just had an exchange of e-mails with my friend and sister blogger Janie . She knew me originally as "Staci" and asked me to conf...

It's official (well, as "official" as it's going to get). My name is Stana. Almost six weeks ago, I wrote here about p...

When I was femulating in the privacy of my own closet, it never occurred to me to pick a female name because my femulation had no contact w...

male model alert! Yesterday's Femulate This: model (right) earned my first Male Model Alert! In the future, I will issue such alerts whe...

I chose Staci as my female name because it is the closest thing to a female version of my male name, Stanley. Here is how I arrived at Staci...

Are you stuck for a name for your femulated persona? The easy way out is to use the feminine version of your boy name, for example, Andrew b...

Reading a magazine waiting at the doctor's office on Friday, I learned that Barack Obama's deceased mother's name was Stanley An...

Back in August, I wrote here about how I was thinking about changing my name to "Lana Hunter." Yesterday, out of the blue, I rece...