Trans* Success

Macy’s, the retailer, put specific transgender-related policies, which grant access to fitting rooms and restrooms of transitioning employees’ choice, in place in 2006. “We offered special training in intimate apparel departments for sales associates to help transgender individuals with fittings,” Beth Charlton of Macy’s corporate communications department tells us. “We also have offered training to our store managers, law department, and human resources regarding our transgender policy.” The company has also recruited for transgender employees in its San Francisco stores.  “At every level of our company, we recognize the value that different perspectives bring to our business, and we celebrate the unique characteristics and strengths of each associate.”

Andii Viveros was recently crowned as Florida’s first transgender prom queen.

Andii Viveros is the second transgender prom queen historically but the first in the state of Florida.

17 year old Andii Viveros beat out 14 candidates to  become the second trans teen nationally to become the prom queen at her school.  To make it even more interesting, the prom king is 17 year old gay male student Juan Macias.

Andi is two years into her transition, and she says she knew she wanted to be a girl since she was little. Her parents are supportive of her choice to transistion. Andii hopes the crown will help pave the way for other trans teens like her.

Melanie Anne Phillips is a song writer, photographer, artist, writer, poet, and has directed and produced a few of her own feature films.  She’s most famous for writing A Transsexual Diary: Transition, Transformation, and Transcendence spread over 5 books about her journey to being a woman.  Melanie also is the creator of a Trans support site for Trans Women that contains vast amounts of information on the transitioning process.  She is enterprising, talented, and very pretty.