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subject of transvestism, as more and more careful attention is coming to be paid to this interesting field of human be- ingness, is beginning to feel (as I do) that the explana- tion of the transvestite urge within an individual must go beyond heredity and environment to find the causative forces. But where? What else makes a human personality what it is? Heredity certainly contributes much. Environment, or con- ditioning, being the effects upon us of the various stimuli to which we have been subjected and the various experiences we have undergone, certainly helps to make us whatever we are. Our own decisions, our wills, the way we react and the way we choose to react, is another causative factor molding our personality. But some traits in some indivi- duals simply do not seem to be explained by these forces, and transvestism is one of these, or at least so it now seems to some f us.

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Unfortunately, too often the doctor consults the books and not the patient but the books don't seem to hold the ans- wer to the question. You who are in the actuality of the life of a transvestite, you who are close to it because you are in it, what do you think? I believe that your opinions should be given some weight. Therefore, I throw the invitation out to you let me know what your answers to the question of Transvestism are.

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What is the source of the urge? Is it an extra growth on the personality which came about in some particular way and could be removed by some particular procedure? Is it a basic part of your own individual being which could only be removed by doing violence, and in a sense a death to a part of your own true self? Is it a matter of heredity in the usual sense, a matter of glandular develop- ment, or an acquired taste cultivated over the years? Or is it something different from any of these? I would be very much interested in a compilation of opinion from those who read this magazine and are themselves trans- vestites.