Donahue with Crossdressers Featuring JoAnn Roberts and Tri-Ess Part 1

[@margaretpepper3550]

Since that programme was aired we have come a million miles. Good miles!!

[@seekah1]

It's like sooooooooooooooooooo long ago, we have evolved from these dark days. Thank Goodness!

[@MsNooneinparticular]

Now we have males identifying as women & demanding everyone else play along or lose their jobs & be threatened on Twitter. No, we haven't come a long way.

[@garymorris1856]

Some of the people in the audience seem to think that these crossdressers are seeking their approval, they are not, and they don't need to.

[@Marny5580]

Phil Donahue, your show saved my dear husband's life. Thank you!

[@Marny5580]

My beautiful husband died in 2001 - and his life was fuller and more complete because he was free to dress in whatever he wanted and he liked that his manicured nails were always complimented by both men and women! His toenails, too. But when we first met, he didn't know that it was ok for a man to be well-groomed and clean-shaven and hair in his nose and ears trimmed and that real men do like ballet and opera and ice dancing and having hair dressed properly by a beautician and not only a male barber with a different skill setting. Phil Donahue's show saved my husband's life. He saw it and realized he wasn't nuts - he just needed to see his femme side. We did lots of shows, including Montel and Springer (before his shows got a bit raunchy), and Cristin in Spanish, and Bob Bernstein. ALL were respectful of the 'gals' and the only one we couldn't do was Povich. He turned out to be a disgusting bigot and treated the men/femme with disdain ... and I told him he should be ashamed - and that some people don't like that he married a Japanese woman! he was a louse. Shame on him. To the other hosts and hostess - thank you for the respect you showed the men and their spouses. Bob was awesome, for sure. My take: I wish every female an amazing and awesome a husband as I had ... All Dressed Up and Nowhere To Go ... and I was honored to accompany my beautiful husband out for dinner and wherever else 'she' chose to go. And I enjoyed escorting friends who crossdressed but who were afraid to go out. As with all people, some people who crossdress are too into the dressing and not the whole person. Just as some non-crossdressers are so macho that they beat up on their wives!!! My 'casper' was just as sweet and kind and respectful as 'casperella' ... blessed am I. Mariette was wonderful. Hope she's alive and well, as I do Ellen Sherman and Peter Schwartz, of the doc film "All Dressed Up ..."

[@plddevries]

Phil Donahue was ahead of his time.

[@seth7407]

Do we even have shows with people like this audience, we've come a long way

[@johnathin0061892]

It aired in 1989 I believe, if memory serves me right... it was more than 20 years ago, sometime in the late spring or early summer. I remember that Leeza show with the corssdressers! I only wish I had a copy of it.

[@shirleycorning1213]

I did upload that Leeza Gibbons show to KZbin. See kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGjJk3WFnqpsbK8

[@alanapaige6209]

I'm Happy i'm a crossdresser !!!!!

[@karensingh2020]

me too!

[@indiah5208]

I hate when people try to put god in everything if cross dressing makes someone happy then let them be happy leave them alone and mind yo fuccin business

[@Aspergianfirestarter]

They look good.

[@author]

I crossdressed for 3 years. I enjoyed the pleasure of it. Went out in public 33 times, shopping in local malls, enjoying the pleasures of appearing like a woman, even tried on women's clothes in fitting rooms in women's specialty stores, and used the ladies' room scores of times. Fortunately for me, I never got into a fight or scuffle with other men, or women, It's a lot of work changing my appearance into that of a woman, and after a while it got old and I repeatedly asked myself, "Is that it? Is there no more excitement to this? What am I doing this for?" Most of all, when my kids caught me dressing as a woman, it broke their hearts. I have not done it since, and I get less and less of a desire to do it with every passing day.

[@littlecasino60]

+author As a transsexual I sort of agree with you about getting tired of things. The 'charm' of this life wears off soon enough when you have to get a job and live in the real world. I think that is why so few TSs go full time. I've only known a small hand full that did. Thankfully I've never had any trouble at passing but I had a TS friend and she was issued a letter by her psychologist that stated why she was dressed that way in case she was stopped by the police or using the women's restroom. She denied she ever had any problems and had to only use her letter once on a flight.

[@littlecasino60]

+author I no longer take estradiol and spironolactone anymore because I was no happier with it or without it. Even on a sliding fee it was still too expensive for me. I do understand what you mean when you came to the conclusion "What's the point?"

[@MsNooneinparticular]

Thank you for not going to the extreme of "identifying as a woman" and demanding that everyone participate in your fetish like the modern trans movement has done (homosexual transsexuals notwithstanding). I have no problem with fetishes as long as they're kept in private consenting adults' homes, but forcing strangers to participate unwittingly is not okay. Glad you were able to de-escalate & put your kids first, even if only for the time being.

[@erikdirks]

I love you! If someone wants to pick on you when crossdressing.........I will knock their ass out! I love you!

[@georgawgerino8341]

Watching the audience's awe, cantor, judgment and Jesus-reference someone can understand how behind people were a few years ago-and still are about human nature and sexuality. Instead listening to the people on the stage to understand the mindset of a x-dresser they preach them and lecture them about their own opinions on something they don't know...These guys on the stage should either shut them up or walk away... This is why people don't learn: they project their own perceived ideas on others instead of listening something that seems different to their values and understanding. This is also a difference between Donahue's failed approach to "different" with Oprah. Oprah approached issues with curiosity for a new, not with judgment on what she didn't know. Embracing different is the spirit of the day and Donahue's show seems to fail in this realm miserably. He doesn't inform the public opinion about diversity in the society, he picks a hot topic to create a buzz...All these critics can go home now to tell everybody that they appeared on Donahue and gave a lesson of righteousness and morality to some "lost souls"...

[@youparejo]

Very true and interesting. Watching Oprah now, i found get very judgemental but she was actually different and more open minded compared to other tv show of her era

[@h.orrore]

Is the full episode somewhere? This seemingly cut out the opening.

[@hicm1of12]

The geezer in the grey dress & glasses looks awfully like Dustin Hoffman's "Dorothy" in Tootsie.

[@Angellady11]

😂

[@littlecasino60]

I noticed the very beginning of this video was the end credits of the documentary 'What Sex Am I?' That was a great doc. A former psychologist from Galveston, Texas was involved in the making.

[@empressdar]

RIP JOANN

[@ms.martiegallego8834]

Is this Dr . Broussard?

[@LudicrousScotty101]

lol those men in Panties , this is sooo amusing

[@MrUranium238]

well ,, times have change

[@jn3rd563]

Mariette Pathy Allen at the end

[@PatrickLHawkins]

The crossdresser in the blonde wig who is there with his wife sounds like Wally Cox the comic actor who was popular in the 60's.

[@littlecasino60]

+PatrickLHawkins Yes, LOL, and he kind of looks like him too. It's rather creepy they way his eyes keep darting back and forth like that.

[@PatrickLHawkins]

+Lani Moore You're right he does kind of look like Wally too.

[@WhiskeyandDonuts]

The lie is religion, not their desire to crossdress.

[@karensingh2020]

i respect all religions but it has nothing to do with it!

[@JohnDoe-mp1zk]

these people are extremely brave

[@ashleesue]

there was a Donahue episode where he came out in a skirt over his pants. I wonder if that was another episode, the CD's he had were stunning on that episode.

[@johnathin0061892]

Different episode. (I really need to start uploading again, have tons of old 80s TV to upload.)

[@user-gu5mv2vq8k]

Panties i wear now😊

[@shirleycorning1213]

I was a member of the Alpha Chapter of Tri-Ess from 1990 to 1997. Virginia Prince was at practically all the meetings and conventions and I occasionally saw JoAnn too. Can you tell me about when this show aired? I appeared with others on the Leeza Gibbons show in 1995.

[@jn3rd563]

Are there videos of Virginia Prince online?

[@shirleycorning1213]

@@jn3rd563 None that I know of. I think you can spot her briefly in the audience of this KZbin video I posted long ago, the Leeza Gibbons Show 1995 My Husband Wears My Clothes. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGjJk3WFnqpsbK8

[@lillwinn4936]

Thank God I wasn't a adult in the 70s

[@nickcharles6530]

This was the 80s

[@DonAdmirer]

R.I.P. JoAnn, my good friend.

[@patricklopez6282]

In the back to the future

[@patricklopez6282]

Lot of movie stars have cross dresser like Michael Fox

[@jeandixson5610]

Really

[@patricklopez6282]

Lot of movies actors cross dress in movies

[@shadowsa2b]

im not familiar with this show. is it common for people to get up on stage to discuss a vulnerable topic just to have random audience members lay into them from their own moral high ground?

[@Angellady11]

This is a joke 😂

[@music9556]

religion and ethnicity has nothing to do with crossdressing

[@lisasmith_330]

Latinos or Italians Crossdressers we seem more to women and we are prettiest...and with very little makeup......ed è il mio caso personale.

[@cellsdoni5968]

No, Asians!

[@thefreshmaker001]

Gosh. They are look like church ladies. BTW i am gay

[@richardbedford6657]

Each of us have a male and a female spirit inside of us. Thereby we are granted a life. We are led to believe we are exclusively one or the other. Then we negate, suppress and shame our inner partner. Not only that, we then throw this partner over for a surrogate replacement from the worlds population. It is an extremely ignorant, cruel, and egotistical treatment of our inner partner. It is called hell on earth. The children produced are it's only saving grace.

[@MsNooneinparticular]

Nice cult jargon. Souls are not gendered. Gender as a concept is regressive trash...a stand-in for personality. Female & male are concrete, definable terms. XX & XY chromosomes; estrogen/progesterone & testosterone predominate in each sex respectively. Humans are a sexually dimorphic (binary) species. The existence of intersex people does not validate so-called "trans" people; it simply proves that genetic disorders exist. The trans cult are the new evolution denialists, denying evolutionary biology while spewing mantras like "transwomen are women" and "trans rights are human rights" without addressing the legitimate complaints of LGB people, women & child advocates who are being steamrolled by this New Age-Meets-Men's-Rights Movement.

[@ross4329]

At that time it sucked...now it's a ok and tolerated!!!

[@peggypenny1]

JESUS CHRIST WHAT AM I FUCKING WATCHING

[@KigurumiAlice]

+RANDY RHOADS wanna be cross dresser XD 1980s

[@trevorkeyes1694]

Stunners corr

[@monicabiggs1273]

well hunnie I'm here to tell u get on hormones and live as a women I am sexy as a women I'm no cd I'm transexuail women and I'm far from being ugly

[@zander1011011]

You say you are far from ugly, but your face looks like a man with bad makeup.

[@seanamartin2960]

+Monica Biggs You look great! Good on ya!

[@Angellady11]

I’m a real woman and you look like a hag

[@patricklopez6282]

Just like to men married one other.

[@elgeneralxx]

weirdos

[@ronnie6902]

I think these guys need to see a good psychiatrist. they don't and can't pass as women.