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experiences of many different people.

Sin, evil and immorality are usually more relative than absolute. That is, they are interpretations of an individual's behavior in terms of certain fixed ideas in the interpreter's mind. This often results in condemnation of a given form of behavior where that same behavior in other times, climes and cultures would pass unnoticed. Moreover, in our time "guilt by association" is all too commonplace. Association does not necessarily mean with people only, but with their actions at times. Everyone accepts the aphoism that "all is not gold that glitters", yet all too often the same behavior pattern may be exhibited by two groups of people whose motivations behind the pattern are entirely different.

Unfortunately, if society disapproves of one group, it will also disapprove of the other. Educating society to look for the differences that set groups apart, rather than the similarities that seem to tie them to- gether should make individuals more discriminating in their judgements. This in turn would reduce the num- ber of incidents where individuals are accused of things of which they are not guilty and made to bear stigma that they do not deserve simply because some aspect of their behavior was similar to that of others whose activities were not socially acceptable.

TRANSVESTIA will help in providing the information, in the form of opinions, experiences and stories, which will we hope, assist others to see Transvestism as a pattern in its own right and not simply as a symptom of other behavioral complexes.