Resources on Crossdressing in Singapore
With the internet at our fingertips, there is a wealth of information on transgender issues, gender dysphoria, challenges of being transgender, how to present oneself as female, youtube videos on makeup and crossdressing, etc, which makes it easier to "level up" and be more knowledgeable about the subject. Most of these are generic and applicable regardless of which country one is in. Resources in the English language however, tend to be be largely originating from the US or the UK, which also meant that the struggles or coming out experiences were in the context of their society.
It meant that it was hard to read or hear the struggles or coming out experiences in a local context. To make matters worse, crossdressers who don't identify as transsexual (i.e. don't intend to transition) form an even smaller slice of the transgender pie. The majority are usually so deep in the closet no one knows about them (I know, I used to be one).
As expected, resources on crossdressing in a local context (Singapore / Malaysia) are extremely sparse. Search "Singapore Crossdresser" on Google and the top few results are about dating crossdressers, news reports of crossdressers being arrested for some crime, or some porn site (Don't get me wrong, I've got nothing against porn). It is really not difficult to understand why crossdressers are very easily viewed by society as perverts or deviants (fortunately, there is always Wikipedia, a very neutral and informative, if not overwhelming source of info)
There used to be a forum called SGButterfly, which I understand that in its hey day, was an active online platform and safe space for exchange of information and experiences between CDs/TS both mtf and ftm. It has unfortunately been shut down, but we've got to accept that forums are a medium of the past. In its place there are facebook groups for crossdressers, but these tend to contain superficial content (i.e. posting of photographs)
I hope this blog on my crossdressing journey and answers to common questions serves as a decent guide to some of you readers.
As an easy reference, I also list some of the local resources on crossdressers (and some transgender) that I have come across in the past.
Blogs & Articles:
(Updated as of 17 Nov 2022)
- Gin Kim's Blog
- Kim-Ann's Quora(she was known as Em Chan)
- Dreamin Asa
- Francesca's Blog - Guide to storage solutions for Singaporean CDs (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
- Charlotte Chronicle
- Not so secret life of crossplayers
- Cosplayers in Drag
- My name is Veron: Struggle of being a Malay-Muslim drag queen
- Blurring the Lines
- Account of a married crossdresser / transgender on Women's Weekly magazine
- Reflections of an Intellectual Crossdresser (A great blog by a crossdresser in NZ. I find her posts to be very well written and articulated. Very useful)
- A Beginner's Guide to Crossdressing (A pretty good resource by US blogger Hannah McKnight)
- Gender Dysphoria Bible (Very detailed and well written resource on Gender Dysphoria. Not local, but too good not to include)
- Transgender.sg (Site has a lot of good explanations)
- How does crossdressing feel? (Fantastic answer on Quora by Em Chan)
- When Daddy becomes Mummy
- Price of being Queer in Singapore
- Trans people actually don't have time to disrupt the social fabric (not CD, but it is a good article)
- Enfemmestyle (not a local site, but there's a lot of short articles for CDs)
- Breastplate FAQ (very detailed post by Janna, a crossdresser in the USA)
Youtube:
- Ask Me Anything - Crossdresser (Interview which I took part in)
- Confessions of Singapore's Crossplayers
- Interesting interview of local transwoman Aerie Rei - (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
- I crossdress (short interview with 2 malaysian crossdressers)
- Spinvestigators - Crossdressing in Singapore
- Quen's journey: Being Transgender in Singapore
- My Life as a Transgender University Student (in Singapore)
I will update this post if I do chance upon relevant articles or videos. If you do know of any, do share and I can add them to this list
5 Comments
I'm quite sad that Sgbutterfly went offline and there are no replacement for it. Although there are social media like kik, insta,facebook.etc but these create their own private clique which further splits the community apart. Having a public forum usually brings/attracts similar minds from different areas together, something that other social media sites can't achieve imo.
ReplyDeleteThere has always been cliques, and breaking off into smaller groups of friends is not unexpected, since it is natural social behaviour. Not everyone can get along with everyone, nor do people have the same objectives when dressing.
DeleteThe downside of social media is that it becomes very photos/video focus (i.e. superficial) and not really a platform to exchange ideas
Used to watch the amazing crossdressing video from Emsy
ReplyDeletethat's really amazing
Do you have the link? On a separate note, there's lots of amazing videos nowadays! But mainly on amazing transformations
DeleteYeah, for example Western blogs on stealth ("ninja" out of the house crossdressed) always involve cars, so is carrying stuff and doing makeup in their cars.
ReplyDeleteMost SG sisters have no cars, so the info isn't very useful to us...