THE QUESTION BOX

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(Answers to the questions in the Question Box will be printed in a separate section of the following issue, at least as far as space permits).

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The word "Transvestite" has been used so long as an ad- jective, simply to describe what a person DOES that its use as a noun to describe what a person IS, is no longer possible. Therefore, it becomes common practice to speak of Heterosexual and Homosexual Transvestites, For a male who is sexually attracted to women but who is also fond of wearing feminine attire, it is annoying and unfair to at have to be referred to as a Heterosexual TV.

Why should the sexual orientation have to be specified at all? One doesn't have to refer to his physician as a heterosexual doctor or his attorney as a heterosexual law- yer. The words doctor and lawyer are sufficient in them- selves to describe what the man IS. We need another word to describe people of heterosexual orientation who like to wear clothes of the opposite sex.

The question is, therefore, what name can we coin (other than Eonist which is already in very limited use) to de- scribe such people, which does not always require qualifi- cation to specity his sexual inclinations? Are there some Greek scholars among us who could come up with the equi- valent Greek derivation to Transvestite?