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by dal mcintire

Dixie MacLane, office clerk, whose sex and name change we mentioned earlier, recently became subject of unusual legal hassle. Officer G. H. Nelson of the Pershing Square beat (who seemed to take the transformation as a personal affront) arrested Dixie soon after Superior Judge Arnold Praeger's ruling allowed the name-change. After making various threats and seeing to it Dixie lost her job, Nelson charged her with masquerading as a man, masquerading as a woman and "outraging public decency" (which runs pretty thin on Officer Nelson's beat). Police files falsely reported as showing two arrests, three weeks apart. Would theory of Castration Complex explain extreme police vindictiveness in this case?

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For 32 years as Earl MacLane, Dixie had felt trapped in hateful male body. Electrolysis removed beard. Hormone treatments and psychoanalysis. Interviews and correspondence with doctors here and abroad, and finally the trip last March to Mexico for the initial transforming operations.

In February hearing before Municipal Judge Ben Koenig, after much written testimony by eminent medical authorities (including Dr. Harry

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Benjamin of NYC, Dr. Lyman Stewart of Elmer Belt Medical Group and Dr. Marcus Crahan of LA County Jail) Judge Koenig sidestepped attempt to determine Dixie's sex and dismissed the charges.

And Dixie now looks forward to future marriage, if possible . . .

GUTTERSNIPES . . .

A smut-sheet published in Frisco by "Generalissimo" Fred Weiss, which smears its front page with cheesecake, hyperpatriot slogans, lips and eyes, "Old Glory" and odd headlines, ran a story recently about ONE, headlined: QUEERS DEFY COPS?... MAGS EXPLOIT HOMOS

BAN ON MORALITY" ... "Apparently seeking to put a ban on 'Morality,' the queer press invaded San Francisco with old back-dated copies... of the so-called America's No. 1 homosexual magazine The supposed intention for publishing this magazine which is copied after the pattern of some European mags of homo origin, is to exploit sex deviates in order to encourage their mingling with the general public, and promote their integration into (fictitious) society of these perverts, lesbians, queers and homos, which of course would include the