I always enjoy doing these yearly wrap-ups, and I’m happy to say this year has been a pretty good one for me. Running Trannies In Trouble gives my weeks and months a certain sameness – doing the photoshoots, editing the material, updating and emailing. In many ways my life is routine and even boring most of the time even though it may look like one big bondage orgy from the outside. I’ve said many times, though, that when a photoshoot goes well, I often get a natural high afterwards – often some of the biggest emotional highs that I ever get – which is probably a big reason why I keep doing them. Running a website for a living can be stressful but I know if I stopped shooting, I would miss those moments. When it goes well it can be a rush.

I’ve also had some nice social events with friends this year. My friend Jeanne and I again went to the Transgender Erotica Awards last March. I never feel like I really fit in at that show since it’s not a bondage-themed event, but it is interesting looking in from the outside. For me, though, as I’ve gotten older, my tastes have become simpler. I don’t need much to have a nice evening. Just hanging out with friends and family are what makes life worth living. I can’t imagine being isolated and alone, as so many are, especially the elderly. I’d be miserable living like that and I’m grateful for the people in my life.

The Future of Porn – Back in July I also wrote a blog post about The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 and its hardline stance against the porn industry. I wish I were writing something really sexy here, but I’m afraid this post will inevitably be a little dry with all the legal stuff going on. I’m usually not overly political on this blog, and my own political leanings aren’t that important to the discussion. But whether you love or hate Donald Trump at least now we know who the next president will be. In many ways the waiting before the election was the worst.

Since the election I’ve been reading more legal news as it relates to porn and trying to anticipate what might come next. In some ways I would actually be more worried if JD Vance were president, since he’s on the record as being very anti-porn. He’s also good buddies with Kevin Roberts, who heads The Heritage Foundation and who wrote that much-quoted introduction to the Project 2025 playbook calling for porn sites to be shut down and porn people to be put in prison.

The Trump administration has a long list of goals they want to achieve, especially in their first 180 days in office, and while I could be naive and missing things, I’m doubtful, despite the rhetoric of Project 2025, that an outright ban on porn is on that to-do list. Plus, Donald Trump and his people tend to broadcast what they plan to do. For example, it’s clear that they’re moving full speed ahead with plans to carry out mass deportations, something that’s been discussed and in the news for a long time. A friend of mine also pointed out that Trump’s campaign especially appealed to men, and if there were an attempt at an outright ban against porn that it would alienate a lot of his supporters.

That’s not to deny that we’re currently experiencing a very strong anti-porn push in this country, with much of the movement at the state level with all the new age verification laws being passed. As many of you know, Pornhub has pulled out of the states that currently require age verification simply to avoid the hassles of trying to comply with these new laws. Again, I’m all for keeping kids off my website, but these invasive laws are not the way to do it.

One interesting unintended public statement this summer was from Russell Vought, who’s a major policy wonk who contributed a lot to Project 2025’s “Mandate for Leadership” playbook. He was secretly recorded last July while meeting with two guys who he thought were donors to his think tank. “I actually never talk about our porn agenda,” he said, later adding, “We’d have a national ban on pornography if we could, right?” And regarding age verification laws he admitted that they’re a good way to get rid of porn websites, since as mentioned above sites like Pornhub will often simply pull out of those states where the laws have been passed. “Which of course is entirely what we were after, right?” (more here). Vought has since been named to head Trump’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB), where he also served during the first Trump administration.

The biggest recent news, though, is the challenge to Texas’s age verification law, Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, which the Supreme Court will start hearing on January 15th, 2025, though of course we won’t have a ruling till the end of the summer. This could be a big one, though again it’s anyone’s guess how it might play out, although with the current makeup of the court the FSC has a lot of work ahead of them. I’m a paying supporter of the FSC, who are a very worthy group advocating for the porn industry.

The upcoming Supreme Court case (lots more details here and here), could have a huge impact on age verification laws – reversing them or leading to even more laws, depending of course on which way the decision goes. California’s proposed age verification law thankfully did not pass earlier this year, and I breathed a big sigh of relief when I heard the news. What we don’t know, though, is whether the new Trump administration will supercharge the anti-porn push in this country, or if things will continue on as they’ve been going, which has certainly been bad enough for the porn industry. Even a family member of mine called me this summer and said, “They’re going to come for you!” By my nature I’m a cautious person and I’m always waiting for the other shoe to drop, but obviously I just don’t know. If I were going to guess I would imagine that there will be continued hassles and scrutiny in running an adult website, more age verification laws (maybe a federal law, which would be a huge headache), but that there wouldn’t be an attempt at an outright ban. Speculation, of course, will get you nowhere and I could be totally wrong about all of this. It’s just wait and see.

So on that not very reassuring note, I hope everyone has a nice time over the upcoming holidays and a fun New Year’s Eve at the end of the month. As always, thank you so much to everyone who follows Trannies In Trouble, and of course a very special thanks to the paying members who have joined through CCBill or have bought some of my videos on Clips4Sale. Without your support the site would just be a hobby with an occasional random update. I really could not do it without you! Take care, keep the faith, and all the best in the new year! Love and hugs, Sandra