Voices of Positive (Trans) Women: Interview with Tina Strang
Raverdyke and Mistress Krista interview Tina Strang over bubble tea and toast.
Mistress Krista
Fibromyalgia and FTMs: A Possible Link?
What is fibromyalgia, and is it possibly connected to being female-bodied and gender variant? In this article, Mistress Krista draws some potential links between female to male transgender conditions and this often-misunderstood illness. She also recommends fitness tips that minimize inflammation and pain for those with fibromyalgia.
Training for Visual Mass, Part 4: So Eat Already!
Need more substantial advice on how to eat to gain muscle mass? Mistress Krista serves up some rib-stickin’ pointers on protein and fat.
Psychopathia Transsexualis: Early Psychological Theories of Transsexualism
What are the biases of the researchers working on gender identity disorder? Read an historical overview of transgender research.
Kyle Submits to the Mistress, Part 2
Part 2 of a series on the real-life progress of trans folks who are trying to reshape their bodies and get fit.
Tips and Tricks
In this issue I provided the second installment of Kyle’s workout progress. His workout was designed to be done with minimal equipment in a small space. Here’s how to do the exercises I list, and some tips for increasing their difficulty.
Kyle Submits to the Mistress, Part 1
This will hopefully be an ongoing series about the real-life progress of folks who are trying to reshape their bodies and get fit. There is currently no known data (besides anecdotal evidence) on what happens to trans trainees, so consider this my attempt to record experiments for posterity. Oh yeah, and to kick people’s asses because it’s fun.
Reasearch Into the Causes of Transsexuality
Grace Niedermayer’s article is on a very sensitive subject: a study of the BSTc, a portion of the brain within the hypothalamus, revealed differences between the brains of transgendered people and those of their birth sex. A discussion of the ramifications of this kind of research, written by Mistress Krista, follows the article.
Guide to Sports Bras
Do you have breasts? Whether you’re thrilled with your new development or you’re trying to minimize their size so they don’t divert attention from your goatee, read Mistress Krista’s article. Chock full of helpful advice for all boob-owners!
Training for Visual Mass, Part 2: The Back
Leaping Latissimus Dorsi! If you read last issue’s article on achieving visual mass, follow up with this Back Training article.