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Maki Gingoyon

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Maki Gingoyon is the Chief Operating Officer and Co-founder of My Transgender Date. She is a transgender woman from the Philippines whose advocacy focuses on issues experienced by trans women. For over 10 years, Maki has used beauty pageants as a platform to increase transgender visibility. Maki was crowned Queen of Cebu in 2010, Queen of the Sky in 2013, and the winner of the Mandaue Gay Pageant in 2017. Most recently, she competed in Miss International Queen Philippines 2023 and won Best Advocacy. Today, she continues her advocacy by helping trans women and trans-oriented men find love.

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Does Facebook have anti-trans biases?

Like many love stories, the beginning of the relationship between Facebook and My Transgender Date was great. But many great love stories that start out right can also end in disaster. And this is the case for us with Facebook. It might not sound like a big deal. But does this whole Facebook issue only […]

Amanda Valentine's Book is Coming Out !

Our blogger Amanda Valentine’s debut dating guide book Dating Transgender Women for Gentlemen is arriving on Amazon Kindle on June 27, 2020. She hopes to change people’s perspective when it comes to the relationships of trans-oriented men and transgender women.

5 perfect gifts to give when dating a transgender woman

Dating a transgender woman is like dating any other women, you impress her by all means just to get her heart.  Dating may have changed over the years,  and dating has evolved into so many forms like dating transgender women online.  Ways and forms of dating may change but the objective has remained the same […]

Saving transgender women’s dignity online

What results do you usually receive every time you search for transsexuals, transwomen, transgenders or any keywords relating to it? Often you see that the first page of the results are filled with adult websites. Try opening a site or two and you will be routed to a page showing explicit images. A dazzling word […]

Transsexual dating and the s*xual roles

Well of course this does not apply to all transsexual women for there are pre-op, post-op, and non-op transsexuals. And I do not wish to offend transsexual women or anybody through my article. This these exist and it is just a mere good to know article specially to men who are interested of dating a […]